This image is from the MyPE Editor’s Flickr Account – offering some topical daily images from a phone smarter than Alan, occasional images from a DSLR and scanned images of Port Elizabeth as he wanders around the Bay pretending to know a lot and sometimes succeeding in making a complete hash of it!
Early Timepiece
Image by awstraton
The original lighthouse and keeper’s quarters adjoining the Memorial on the Donkin Reserve. From the short mast close to the tower rail the time ball was dropped daily at 1:00 pm and people set their watches by it.
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Port Elizabethan
This author is a 'catch-all' for occasional articles and letters written to MyPE. The Author of each article can be found in the signature at the bottom of each individual article.
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