This past week I posted two posts featuring the historic St Mary's Cemetery at the bottom of the Baakens Valley. There are so many interesting bits to photograph in a cemetery like this one of what looks like such a sad angel.
Tag: graves
Another view of St Mary’s Cemetery
Yesterday I posted a photo of the St Mary's Cemetery along with the grave yard's history. I decided to follow it up with another photo of the cemetery but from a totally different angle. This one is standing at the bottom and looking away from the road and up the terraces.
The history of St Mary’s Cemetery
I got to attend Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism's launch of Tourism Month at the newly refurbished Tramways Buildings a week or two ago and had some time on my hands before the event began so went for a walk through St Mary's Cemetery. It's really sad to see the state the cemetery is in specially … Continue reading The history of St Mary’s Cemetery
South End Angels
South End Cemetery - A City of Angels
South End Cemetery graves
If you go back through my blogs (or is a regular follower), you may notice that for some strange reason I have a peculiar interest in historic graves and cemeteries. I used to work very close to the South End Cemetery and placed a Geocache there so I visited it quite often to check up … Continue reading South End Cemetery graves
The Grave of Joseph Crowe in Uitenhage
Making my rounds through Uitenhage on a Geocaching expedition a week or so ago I got to visit the MOTH garden for the first time. The garden is where the grave of Joseph Crow is located.Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Petrus Hendrik Crowe VC (12 January 1826 – 12 April 1876) was the first South African-born recipient … Continue reading The Grave of Joseph Crowe in Uitenhage
The Norvalspont Concentration Camp Memorial
The Anglo Boer War (1899 - 1902) is one of the big turning points in South Africa's history along with the arrival of Europeans in the country, the Great Trek, the Apartheid years and a new democratic South Africa. Okay, so the history is about more than just those five turning points but that is what came to my … Continue reading The Norvalspont Concentration Camp Memorial
Cradock grave yard track – no Harry Potter unfortunately
On my last visit to Cradock I went in search of the grave of Harry Potter. Harry Potter, you ask? Well, Cradock's cemetery holds the grave of one Harry Potter who was a ‘beloved husband’ and died on July 27, 1910 at the age of 46. Was he magical? Who knows? I unfortunately didn't find him. I … Continue reading Cradock grave yard track – no Harry Potter unfortunately
One of the Lovemore family graveyards
he Lovemore surname is closely linked to Port Elizabeth and it's early history, specially out in the western side of the city. This is all thanks to one Henry LOVEMORE who left England to settle in Port Elizabeth in 1820. Although he came at the time of the British Settlers who settled east of the city around Grahamstown … Continue reading One of the Lovemore family graveyards
Oudtshoorn graveyard
Regular followers of my blogs would know by now that one of my strange travel quirks is historic cemeteries. On a recent visit to Oudtshoorn in the Klein Karoo I decided to revisit the Kerk Street Cemetery in the town for a closer look. The graveyard is an old one with most graves having disappeared over the years. In … Continue reading Oudtshoorn graveyard
Firefly the Travel Guy 