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After leaving Kalk Bay Sprigg went farming near Martindale in the Eastern Cape.

The plot at 1 Ladan Road was bought in 1915 by Hilda Mitchell, the wife of Robert Edward
‘Ted’ Mitchell. In 1925 plans by the architect John C. Haswell were passed for four one-

bedroom flats to be built at a cost of £1,900. (Fig. 3.17). The couple called the flats Hilted (Hilda
and Edward) and the block was known by this name for many years. They lived in Johannesburg

and rented the flats to various tenants over the years.

In 1937 they were bought by Auriol Sealey-Allin. He and his wife Rose were another couple

who saw Kalk Bay as a good investment. They lived in Salisbury (now Harare) and in 1930 had
bought another house in Kalk Bay – Corby, 220 Main Road. Perhaps they had plans to retire at

the Cape but it was not to be. In 1940 Auriol died aged 72 in Salisbury and Hilted was valued at
£1,750 in his estate. Seven years later his wife Rose died in Salisbury after a long battle with

cancer. She specified in her will that the property be sold by auction at which point it was sold
for £2,950 to Eupehmia [Banks] Clark [b. Ironside] who owned the flats for the next 25 years.

The flats today stand mostly unaltered for close to 100 years and are now known as Theresa’s

Flats.

‘Pioneers’ of Ladan Road – the Moore family

Upcott, 3 Ladan Road, erf 89950, was the home to generations of the Moore family for close on

100 years. (Fig. 3.18). In 1912 Frances (Mary) Moore, by then a widow, bought the lot from

Ethel Arderne for £75. Plans were passed the same year for this neat two bedroom house to the
design of architect A. Cook. As can be seen it was originally to be called Braemar Villa although

this name was already on a house in Harris Road. By May 1913 the building, by George Tout of
Wynberg, was complete at a cost of £457 17s 0d.

This new house is on the 1915 Attridge Survey (Fig 3.1 above) where it can be seen as the only

building in the street. It stood alone there for the next seven years. More than 100 years later the
exterior of the house has hardly changed. (Fig. 3.19).