St Mary’s arch
The figure on the arch entrance way outside St Mary's Catholic Cathedral in the Port Elizabeth city centre
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23/12/2013
St Mary’s Cathedral
Up to the time that the British Settlers arrived in Algoa Bay in 1820, the needs of the British garrison at Port Elizabeth had been served by chaplains on passing ships. By 1825 the settlement had grown to about 500 people. One of these was Reverend Francis McClelland (the same person who built No 7 Castle Hill). He was appointed Colonial Chaplain that same year and laid the foundation stone for the Collegiate Church of St Mary the Virgin was laid. The church was finally…
08/05/2013
St Augustines
Port Elizabeth has two beautiful cathedrals literally a couple of hundred meters away from each other in the city centre. The one is the St Mary's Anglican Cathedral while the second (in picture) is St Augustine's Catholic Cathedral. When the first Catholic priest set foot in Port Elizabeth in 1840 (after being shipwrecked in Cape St Francis and having to travel the last 100km to town on horseback), there were only 42 Catholics in the town. In the coming years…
08/03/2013
St Peters
I recently started Geocaching, so you may just hear me mention it every now and then as it gets me to be out and about a bit more than usual. One of the places I found a cache was at the St Peters Church ruins in South End. The church was opened in 1877. After the people of the area were removed due to the Group areas Act in the late 1960's the church was demolished to stop the congregation coming…
16/02/2013
Captain Evatt’s tomb stone
Captain Francis Evatt who was commander of Fort Frederick from 1817 - 1847 and amongst others oversaw the landing of the 1820 British Settlers was buried in St Mary's Cathedral after his death. His remains were moved to a grave just outside the north wall of Fort Frederick in 1956. With the moving of his remains to the new grave it was decided to put a replica tomb stone on the grave while the original tomb stone was installed in the cathedral's foyer.
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16/12/2012
St Mark’s Chapel
We attended the christening of the baby of friends of ours at the St Mark's Chapel in Framesby North this morning. St Marks Congregational Church is quite a big and popular church with christenings taking place in the chapel after the end of the church services and not in the church during the services.
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28/10/2012
Shri Krishna Temple
I've driven past the Shri Siva Subramanier Aulayam Temple in Upper Valley Road many many times but only got to go inside for the first time not too long ago. The temple was built between 1893 and 1901 by the Hindu community and was consecrated in 1901. The complex actually has more than one temple with the one in the picture being the Shri Krishna Temple which was erected in memory of JV Valayden in 1961. The guy who was supposed to…
11/09/2012
Church ruin
Seeing that I've done a couple of posts promoting the events organised by Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism for Tourism Month, I thought to do just one more. People tend to immediately know what you're talking about when you mention District 6 in Cape Town, but very few actually know that South End in Port Elizabeth has a very similar history. South End has a number of heritage sites which are connected together by the South End Museum Heritage Trail. One of the sites the…
02/09/2012
Sleeping feline
My sincerest apologies to those who follow both this blog as well as The Firefly Photo Files for the double post of this picture this week. I've had a corrupt Windows files which meant that my hard drive crashed and its going to take a little bit of time to load all the programs again and then check to see which photos I haven't posted on the blogs. Luckily all my original pictures are on my external hard drive. Phew.Anyhow, this big cuddle toy…
11/08/2012
St Philips Church
Sue and Max (SAM) used to feature the St Philips Church in Richmond Hill quite often in their photography when they were doing PEDP but as I don't get to the area that often I haven't done so. The other day I was on my way to the Oval for Chaos Boy's school athletics and found myself riding through Richmond Hill. I couldn't resist not stopping and snapping a pic.
09/02/2012