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Raggy Charters
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Port Elizabeth Harbour
Raggy Charters offers guests a variety of cruises to suit your requirements. We specialize in wildlife viewing and often come across whales, dolphins, penguins, seals, sharks, and seabirds in Algoa Bay. All of our cruises make use of our three motorised catamarans which can carry 20, 18 and 10...
Rates from R800
Campanile Memorial
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
The Campanile was erected to commemorate the landing of the 1820 Settlers and is situated at the entrance to the railway station and docks in Strand Street, the spot where it is said the settlers landed in Port Elizabeth. The architects were Jones & McWilliams with construction starting in 1920...
South End Museum
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > South End
South End was once a cosmopolitan suburb bustling with street life, known for its respected schools, is festive hotels, numerous family businesses and its own air fish sellers.
It was home to generations of families who lived in houses which today are only recorded in water colours.
Cora Terrace
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
A little further up Bird Street we come to Cora Terrace. This comprises a row of seven town houses facing onto a lane. They were built on land granted to Henry Watson Henderson in 1831. He was killed in 1834 in the 6th Frontier War. His widow married Joseph Smith and the houses were built from...
Feather Market Centre
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
Port Elizabeth's Feather Market Centre is located on the corner of Baakens Street and Military Road, Central and, as its name implies, was an extension of the original commercial activities once carried out in Market Square.
Lilitha Nursing College (previously Sharley Cribb Nursing College)
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
The house “Sundridge” (Architect G W Smith) was built in 1897 for A E Allen Smith and his wife Emily (born Savage) in the Art Nouveau style. In 1929 Herman Sammel converted it into the very modem Park Hotel by adding a large bedroom wing and later, a ballroom. It has been the Nursing College...
Port Elizabeth City Hall
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862. The attractive clock tower was only added in 1883. The City Hall serves as a Council Chamber as well as a concert hall, a lecture hall and offices for city council employees.
Port Elizabeth Railway Station
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
North of the Campanile is The Railway Station building that has existed on the present location since 1875 when the first line was constructed to Uitenhage about 40 Kilometres away. The original building was designed by James Bisset, Resident Engineer, Harbour and Public Works. Extensive...
Port Elizabeth Main Library
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
The splendid old Port Elizabeth Main Library is situated in the North-Western corner of Market Square. The first building on the site was constructed in 1835 and was initially used as a courthouse from 1854.
The present library building was officially opened in 1902. The building is...
The Old Museum
Location : Eastern Cape > Port Elizabeth > Central
As is the case with many of the fine old buildings in the vicinity, the old Museum was originally built as a dwelling house. It was for Henry Rutherford in 1861. In 1896 it became the home of Adam White Guthrie, Mayor of P E from 1912 to 1915. His legatees left the house to the Port Elizabeth...
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