The old Harbour Board Building in Flemming Street in the city centre was used as the Port Elizabeth Harbour's administration building for 70 years. The foundation stone was laid by J Searle who was the Managing Commissioner of the Harbour Board in 1904 and the building is regarded as one of the best examples of … Continue reading Old Harbour Board Building
Tag: city centre
Fishbone
Route 67 has some very interesting art pieces with each one representing something specific. The Fishbone sculpture on Market Square reconnects the city's Central Business District with the Port Elizabeth Harbour's fishing industry which has been a very important aspect of the city in the past and still presently. The group in the background of the … Continue reading Fishbone
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 … Continue reading Captain Evatt’s tomb stone
Urban Run 2012
On Sunday I tackled the 2nd annual Urban Run along with about 1000 other athletes runners competitors adventurous people. What an amazing experience!!! Urban Run is a 10,5km urban obstacle course through the Port Elizabeth city centre, the historical part of town, St Georges Park, Settlers Park and surrounding area. The 17 obstacles along the way included crawling through cement pipes, … Continue reading Urban Run 2012
Taxi’s in the wall
One of the latest art pieces to be installed in the city centre as part of the Route 67 initiative is a row of taxi's inbedded in the wall on Whites Road across the road from the Opera House. The piece was done by Mark Wilby in collaboration with Bongani Njalo, Bamanye Ngxale, Jason Olivier, … Continue reading Taxi’s in the wall
Sunrays
Last week the skies above Port Elizabeth gave a stunning display of Crepuscular rays. Yes, that's the proper name for it. Usually you only get to see it for a couple of seconds or maybe even minutes, but on this day if just continued to be visible for large parts of the day. I found … Continue reading Sunrays
St Dominic Priory tour
In my line of work I have taken tourists, tour operators, photographers and media from all over the world around this beautiful city I call home. This past week I got to do a different kind of group. A group of grade 6 schoolkids from St Dominic Priory in the city. At first I didn't … Continue reading St Dominic Priory tour
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 … Continue reading Sleeping feline
Market Square aerial
I was very disappointed the day I saw that the municipality started to allow officials to use Market Square as a parking lot. Tourists wanting to have a look around have to dodge cars and when you want to take a nice picture there is always a vehicle in the way. Plus I don't think the … Continue reading Market Square aerial
City Centre Pissoir
One of the first projects done by the Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) was the upgrade of Govan Mbeki Road (Main Street) and surrounds between Russel Road and the City Hall. Down one of the side roads you will this little enclosed structure (one of about two or three in the area) with a sticker of a … Continue reading City Centre Pissoir
Firefly the Travel Guy 