Quilt captures 1820 settler arrivals drama: Smallwood, 79, said she started her 150 by 150cm quilt in July last year, intending to have it ready for Nelson Mandela Bay’s annual Spring Quilting Festival. Source: "Port Elizabeth" - BingNews. Surprising real estate boost for Bay: The Port Elizabeth and East London property industries have seen a surge in sales since real estate agents resumed business in June, with house price inflation outstripping the national market. For ... Source: "Port … [Read more...] about Quilt captures 1820 settler arrivals drama – Port Elizabeth in the News
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2020 Marks 200 Years Since the landing of the British Settlers in Port Elizabeth
Listen Whilst you climb the Campanile Steps or rest at anchor in Algoa Bay: With any historic event such as Commemorating the landing of the 1820 Settlers in Algoa Bay we will have many voices for and against. Within myself I have many viewpoints: The money grabbing cynic in me sees this coming milestone as an ideal opportunity to attract foreign tourists and their money to our city. Nothing makes people open their pockets more than a bit of guilt selling. The nation building … [Read more...] about 2020 Marks 200 Years Since the landing of the British Settlers in Port Elizabeth
Grahamstown in the news: 1820 Settlers National Monument
1820 Settlers National Monument: The 1820 Settlers National Monument, which honours the contribution to South African society made by the first big influx of English settlers, overlooks Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. A living monument, it commemorates the English language as much as the ... Source: "Grahamstown" - BingNews. Cheap Flights to Grahamstown - Grahamstown, South Africa Flights: Grahamstown is 70 mi from Port Elizabeth Airport (Port Elizabeth, South Africa). Port Elizabeth … [Read more...] about Grahamstown in the news: 1820 Settlers National Monument
1820 Settlers Landing – Editors Pic
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! 1820 Settlers Landing Image by awstraton The landing of the British Settlers in surf boats at Algoa Bay. This image is randomly selected from an ever growing repository of publicly available … [Read more...] about 1820 Settlers Landing – Editors Pic
