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Mayor of the KB-M Municipality on two occasions (1897 and 1910). He had a keen

interest in photography taking some of the first X-ray pictures in South Africa with an

apparatus he had imported from overseas. He also interested himself in local photography
and was one of the first to perfect the panoramic photograph. The Pocock Collection forms

part of the photographic collection in the Cape Archives. He was also a keen musician and
chess player. In 1885 he married Elizabeth Lydia Dacomb of Durban and they had 3 sons

and 4 daughters. (Fig. 4.2). In 1898 he made his home in England but regularly visited
"Carisbrooke", where in 1909 he returned to live. He died at his Rondebosch home on 2

July 1922. Some few years earlier on 7 July 1918 he had sold "Carisbrooke" to Everard

Digby. (D.T. 6218).

Everard Digby sold "Carisbrooke" to John and Hannah Hughes on 28 May 1926 (D.T.

5121) and it was here that contact was made between Paddy Harrison and Mrs Hannah
Hughes. Circa 1936 Paddy, while still a schoolgirl, was playing cricket on her lawn

opposite "Carisbrooke" and hit a tennis ball onto the "Carisbrooke" lawn. When she went
to retrieve it Mrs. Hughes shouted at her “Get out of here, and remember another thing,

Miss Harrison, you live in the stables of our home”.

Corriemar

Next to "Carisbrooke", No 4 Main Road is "Corriemar". (Fig. 4.3). Built by Mrs. S.

Jamison in 1879 as the coach-house and stables for "Carisbrooke", it was subdivided and
bought from her by William Searle for £ 505 in 1893. (D.T. 7142). The plot area was 44

square roods and 118 square feet. William Searle set about converting the stables and
coachhouse into a home. He employed the services of a local builder, W. Delbridge, who

had learnt the art of stone masonry in Cornwall, his country of birth. The outer walls of the

house are all dressed quarry stone and were recognized recently by an architect as a fine
example of the famed "Cornwall cut", in which Delbridge excelled.

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