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Figs. 2.21 & 2.22: A unique ensemble (c. 1905 RRW): Barkly Cottage (1840?), owned by
Governor Sir Henry Barkly in 1870s, then Chief Justice Lord de Villiers in 1880s, and later
Garlick Family; Rhodes Cottage (1870?), bought by Rhodes in 1899; Coach-house (1905)
(obscured); Rust en Vrede mansion built by Abe Bailey in 1904 and owned by him till death
in 1940. Out of photo to left Watergate built by John Garlick in 1914. All extant today and
little altered.
Message on post-card reads: “This is Read’s house in which we lived when I was 3 years old
and when the Manns lived in Rhodes’ Cottage. I went to school in the very room in which he
died.”