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Hot off the press….

......excuse the pun. We already did a post today on the new wordpress blog, but ironically were unable to upload the bitmap kindly sent sent to us by our friend Louise Eksteen (a noted photographic artist who has offered to supply us with pics.) However, as I am in Capetown and uploading from my cellphone, blogger is behaving delightfully! So here is an image of the fire in Port Elizabeth yesterday, in which the old Greatermans building was burned. In…

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21/08/2008
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This place could do with a re-birth

This tatty looking building (admittedly made worse by the fact that it was photographed through the windscreen on a wet and miserable day recently) is where a huge number of Port Elizabethans (including our son) were born... it is the old maternity wing of the Provincial Hospital. Definitely in need of some tlc, but given the abysmal state of the Health Department in this province, I imagine it is low on the list of priorities.

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21/08/2008
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All fresh and new…..

Until recently these were very run down houses in Richmond Hill. I love the new colour scheme on the dark one! And as you can see, these properties enjoy superb views across the bay.

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20/08/2008
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The Mosque that stopped a freeway

This is Pier Street Mosque, now marooned on a patch of lawn between the harbour and the freeway.After forcibly removing the residents of South end in the early 70s, even the all-powerful Apartheid Government had to yield to a higher power over this.... and so our settlers freeway has a truncated offramp hanging in space, because they were not allowed to go ahead and demolish this mosque, which is considered to be on holy ground.

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19/08/2008
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Byebye blogger

Well after weeks of utter frustration, and hours of wasted time trying to upload pix on other programmes, copy them across, only to lose the lot because publishing keeps failing, we have decided to move to wordpress. We have tried and tried to avoid it, because we much prefer the flexibilty offered by blogger as far as picture size etc is concerned, but I guess we will just have to accept the compromise, because there is no way we can…

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18/08/2008
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Elaine Hopewell Gallery

We seem to keep popping back to Parliament Street and vicinity, which is not too surprising because it is home to some delightful old buildings. This is actually in Ivy Terrace, but is seen from Parliament Street. From this gracious old house, Elaine Hopewell has been running her well known Art Gallery and framing business for many years. It is in one of the little pockets that you can find in Central which have remained relatively untouched by the urban…

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18/08/2008
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one day i’ll grow up….

This tiny yacht is called an Optimist, which is pretty appropriate really. Maybe he is optimistic that one day he will grow up into a big boy's toy like the one behind him, which in turn looks pretty skimpy in contrast to the bulk ore carrier being loaded behind it.

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17/08/2008
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returning towards the harbour

Returning to the harbour from the East, one passes the lovely old Brewery buildings, now standing empty and deteriorating fast. In the foreground is the breakwater with dolosse designed by an East London engineer. For more information go to Sue's post on Dolosse.

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13/08/2008
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welcome to Port Elizabeth

If you ever get to enter the City of Port Elizabeth from the sea, this is what greets you on entering the harbour, the harbour master's tower, checking on all shipping movements.

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12/08/2008