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Post date: 07/08/2012
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History: Originally formed part of the farm owned by K.S. de Villiers, known as the land baron of the area. He died in 1916 and the property was soon afterwards subdivided into lots to form the township now known as Fish Hoek.
NO. 62 SIMONSTOWN ROAD was sold on 10 April 1919 to Josiah Robert Finch, whom it is believed erected the original elongated three roomed cottage during that year. (Finch a former Town Clerk of Cape Town and member of the Provincial Council, was elected member of the Provincial Executive Committee in 1943 under the new delimitation, previously Cape Town Central). On 17 May 1940 Finch sold the property to Edward John Williams whose widow Elizabeth Ann took transfer on 7 October 1952 and then immediately sold the property to Eric von Abo. Pistorius. Transfer was registered on the same day. The property was again transferred to the widow’ Pistorius named Ethel on 3 October 1958, who in turn, sold it to Kenneth Robert Thomas, formerly Chief Magistrate of Cape Town. His son, Herman Faithful Thomas inherited the property on his father death and took transfer on 19 January 1971. Neuman Thomas was a Commandant during World War II and was in charge of signal arrangements in the Air Force. He was instrumental in moving the wireless masts from Slangkop which was erected in 1910 to Wingfield and taking over Collins transmitter, which the Post Office were unable to utilise.
This transmitter proved invaluable in North African Desert campaigns. Thomas sold the cottage to the present owner, Mrs. Ruth Stella Ross, on 30 June 1972. This cottage had also undergone the some changes as did cottage No. 60, by the addition of a closed verandah and two flanking steep rooms. In line with these are two original three rooms, being the lounge, main bedroom and smaller bed room, with the kitchen at the rear of the lounge, as well as a bathroom and toilet. This thatched—roof cottage with the Steenberg mountain as a backdrop and the front facade facing the sea, is very picturesque"
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Site Features: Terraces - stone retaining walls
Condition: Fair
Construction Date: 1919
Materials: Thatch on plastered brick
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