Newspaper cutting of damage by storm which nearly wreaks this house in J Bay!
September 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Sea Fury Jeffrey's Bay Port Elizabeth
Newspaper cutting of damage by storm which nearly wreaks this house in J Bay!
September 2008
High Waves of Algoa Bay over Sidon Street Wall Port Elizabeth
Source EP Herald
Ivor Markman
Location Sidon Street North End
Port Elizabeth
September 2008
Dolosse Brace For Algoa Bay's Fury Port Elizabeth
Picture EP Herald
William Veitch
Location N2 Settlers Way High way
Port Elizabeth
September 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
British Tourist Gang Raped Port Elizabeth
Blacks GANG RAPE British tourist Julie Stevens in a racist attack South Africa – (Find the full story in The Star Newspaper. Picture from the same article).
Monday, September 15, 2008
The Sinking of the Oceanos Eastern Cape
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Cruise Ship Sinking
The "Oceanos" was a Greek cruise liner with hundreds of South African and Foreign holiday makers aboard making her way in a northerly direction off the Transkie coast. On 04 August 1991 while she fought high seas along South Africa's eastern seaboard she took in water through an open apature in her hull listing badly. The Captain and crew fearing the worst abandoned the ship leaving the passengers to their own fate. However the South African Air force, flying air force Pumas, rescued all the passengers despite high winds and the prevailing treacherous conditions.
A newspaper clipping showing the final moments of the "Oceanos" Downloaded from the website www.oceanossinking.blogspot.com
Saved from certain death these survivors aboard a SAAF Puma sigh relief. Downloaded from the website www.oceanossinking.blogspot.com
The SAAF crew which took part in the rescue operation. Downloaded from the website www.oceanossinking.blogspot.com
The captain is always the last to abandon ship, or go down with her, not in the case of the "Oceanos" though. In this case the "captain" and crew were the first to abandon the Oceanos! However bits of history keep being washed to shore, and one such case is a fiberglass life boat which the sea spewed forth in one of its more violent moments, at Skoenmakerskop. This is a few KM's north to where the Sacramento went down.
Friday, September 12, 2008
Mother's Day Port Elizabeth
In all the world around us, there simply is no other
whose life portrays both sweetness and strength quite like a mother,
Let this little gift remind us of each mother's role -
the fragrance of her beauty and the richness of her soul.
For every precious woman, we earnestly would pray
that all GOD's loving blessings enrich her life today;
May HIS gentle arms enfold her so her anxious fears are stilled
and, cherished by the FATHER, her hopes and dreams fulfilled.
Reproduced by kind permission
Poetry Book Three
SJA
whose life portrays both sweetness and strength quite like a mother,
Let this little gift remind us of each mother's role -
the fragrance of her beauty and the richness of her soul.
For every precious woman, we earnestly would pray
that all GOD's loving blessings enrich her life today;
May HIS gentle arms enfold her so her anxious fears are stilled
and, cherished by the FATHER, her hopes and dreams fulfilled.
Reproduced by kind permission
Poetry Book Three
SJA
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Blacks Murder British Husband and Gang Rape Wife Port Elizabeth
Mr. Burnett Duncan (72) VICIOUSLY BEATEN and his wife Greta Duncan (66) GANG RAPED by black criminals in their home. Both were originally from England. (Read the entire Story by Alex Eliseev in THE STAR Newspaper, 23 November 2005, Picture by Thobeka Zazi Ndabula. Other picture in the article by Neo Ntsoma,)
Patriot Bear Port Elizabeth
Bertram the mascot
Teddy Bear Museum
Stratford-upon-Avon
Warwickshire
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This England
Page 63
Airport Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
Quote: "One of the first flights into Port Elizabeth took place in 1917 when Major Allister Miller, the `prophet' of civil aviation in this country, who later went on to establish Union Airways, made his inaugural flight between Cape Town and the Eastern Cape city.
However, Port Elizabeth's airport - just 10 minutes from everywhere in PE, as locals like to remind visitors - dates from the commencement of Union Airways in 1929 and the first regular mail and passenger service between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. Officially the city's airport was commissioned in 1936 with a single runway, a hangar and a concrete apron.
During World War 2 the airfield was extended to accommodate the 42nd Air School Royal Air Force and 6 Squadron South African Air Force on the southern and eastern perimeters of the field, while commercial operations continued from the northern side. After the war the SAAF continued to operate an Air Force Base on this location and in 1954 Port Elizabeth experienced its first jet aircraft arrival when five De Havilland Vampire FB9s landed.
Just prior to this, in 1950, construction of the terminal buildings, runways and air traffic control tower began, with the commercial operation moving temporarily to an airfield at St Albans, about 25 km from the city centre. Once completed in 1955, the Port Elizabeth terminal was official reopened and in 1973 the apron extended to accommodate larger aircraft with a new departures terminal being built and commissioned in 1980......"
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Friday 10 September 2008
The Star
42 Flight School
Port Elizabeth
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Book Title
Port Elizabeth
page 222
Margaret Harraldine
Fighter pilots of the Royal Air Force at Hawkinge in Kent England
Picture Source
This England
Page 36
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Thought for the Day Port Elizabeth
When GOD answers your prayers HE will not speak to you in a riddle,
this is the work of the devil, HE will speak to you plainly.
GOD will answer you in a soft gentle voice as in a light breeze,
or He will answer you in a violent tornado, even a powerful gushing river, a consuming fire.
With every answer it will be a gift free of sorrow, He will give you bread instead of a serpent!
In the end it will be your duty to be patient waiting for HIS voice:
"not now"
"yes"
or
"no"
this is the work of the devil, HE will speak to you plainly.
GOD will answer you in a soft gentle voice as in a light breeze,
or He will answer you in a violent tornado, even a powerful gushing river, a consuming fire.
With every answer it will be a gift free of sorrow, He will give you bread instead of a serpent!
In the end it will be your duty to be patient waiting for HIS voice:
"not now"
"yes"
or
"no"
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Port Elizabeth Refreshment Port to England's Sailing Ships
Picture Source Wikipedia
Algoa Bay and the Port Elizabeth site 1778
R.J.Gordon
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Port Elizabeth The Windy City
Port Elizabeth is known as the "Friendly City" and the "Windy City" with an exquisite English character and is for me a place of rest. The town impressed me when i first stayed there in the late 1970's. I remember the city center in Main street which was spotlessly clean in those days and buzzed with life right through to North End. Now big buildings stand empty displaying myriads of "To Let" signs. And then there is the Campanile monument commemorating the arrival of the 1820 settlers who's clock, including that of the old City Hall, has stopped working and lays in disrepair for lack of funds. The Campanile's 23 bells have stopped chiming long ago. On the western edge of the Donkin are the original 1820 Settler homes which were decreed a national monument, but most stand derelict with the bronze heritage badge stolen, perhaps for scrap metal, just like the memorial brass plaque which once was to be found on the library wall in Main Street commemorating the city's founding fathers and the place the library had in society.
In the seventies there was the martial arts center just off Main Street near the fly over but it is now gone, the sand stone churches, the ancient settler graveyards, the old English pub behind the theater, the beaches with the beautiful bikini girls, the October fest, the motor shows, the Baakens Valley Fort (Fort Frederick), the docklands, Skoenmakerskop, GM, restaurants and the friendly people, all gave the city its unique character.
This was the place my forefathers came to aboard the "Tudor" in 1860 and the springboard from where they later resettled in other parts of the country. It is the place from where my lovely wife hailed, for which I am eternally thankful to JESUS, and the place to enjoy my father's house and our wonderful family.
Peace comes to mind.
Port Elizabeth has a life and pace of its own, something you would first struggle with if you lived there, especially if you came from any of the big cities in South Africa. Perhaps one day we will live there.
Christmas 2006 was a special family time in PE and it was lovely just having the presence of my son to share the holiday with, not forgetting my wife. Jeffery's Bay is about 45 minutes drive from PE and we spent probably the best four days ever just lazing around, swimming, eating, shopping for little ornaments to adorn our home, and buying the much desired "Billabong" brand name clothing for Matts.
Family is the most special invention.
My in-laws are perhaps my greatest gift and when I married my wife I did not realise so many wonderful blessings were to follow. South Africa is a country which has many orphans and many of these kids will never have parents of their own and those who do should be extremely thankful to their Creator. The Bible says that he who finds a wife finds a good thing and has found favour in the eyes of the Lord but this must apply equally to finding parents who are full of the presence of JESUS.
Aston Bay, Marina Martenique, Paradise Beach and the stunningly beautiful St. Francis Bay were the other places we visited after having a lovely breakfast at the Chameleon Restaurant in Humansdorp. St. Francis has the most beautiful canal system in the world even surpassing those of Britain and fortunately there are still many first world jewels dotted around PE and its nearby environs.
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Photo G-Man
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Oxford_Canal_at_Hillmorton.jpg
Oxford canal at Hillmorton at the edge of Rugby Warwickshire
In the seventies there was the martial arts center just off Main Street near the fly over but it is now gone, the sand stone churches, the ancient settler graveyards, the old English pub behind the theater, the beaches with the beautiful bikini girls, the October fest, the motor shows, the Baakens Valley Fort (Fort Frederick), the docklands, Skoenmakerskop, GM, restaurants and the friendly people, all gave the city its unique character.
This was the place my forefathers came to aboard the "Tudor" in 1860 and the springboard from where they later resettled in other parts of the country. It is the place from where my lovely wife hailed, for which I am eternally thankful to JESUS, and the place to enjoy my father's house and our wonderful family.
Peace comes to mind.
Port Elizabeth has a life and pace of its own, something you would first struggle with if you lived there, especially if you came from any of the big cities in South Africa. Perhaps one day we will live there.
Christmas 2006 was a special family time in PE and it was lovely just having the presence of my son to share the holiday with, not forgetting my wife. Jeffery's Bay is about 45 minutes drive from PE and we spent probably the best four days ever just lazing around, swimming, eating, shopping for little ornaments to adorn our home, and buying the much desired "Billabong" brand name clothing for Matts.
Family is the most special invention.
My in-laws are perhaps my greatest gift and when I married my wife I did not realise so many wonderful blessings were to follow. South Africa is a country which has many orphans and many of these kids will never have parents of their own and those who do should be extremely thankful to their Creator. The Bible says that he who finds a wife finds a good thing and has found favour in the eyes of the Lord but this must apply equally to finding parents who are full of the presence of JESUS.
Aston Bay, Marina Martenique, Paradise Beach and the stunningly beautiful St. Francis Bay were the other places we visited after having a lovely breakfast at the Chameleon Restaurant in Humansdorp. St. Francis has the most beautiful canal system in the world even surpassing those of Britain and fortunately there are still many first world jewels dotted around PE and its nearby environs.
Picture Source
Photo G-Man
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/76/Oxford_Canal_at_Hillmorton.jpg
Oxford canal at Hillmorton at the edge of Rugby Warwickshire
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Russell Road Port Elizabeth
Russell Road
Russell road branches off Main Street, from Port Elizabeth's traditional trading hub and now the city centre, and winds past what used to be the fine "Russell Road Technical College", Rink street and the "Horse Memorial" to join up with Cape Road. In Cape Road you will find lovely houses with traditional Victorian architecture reminding one of Port Elizabeth's wonderful British heritage. On the border of North End along the right embankment when driving east to west near Russel Road's zenith, are the old cemeteries dating back to approximately 1860.
Russel Road Port Elizabeth 1863
A Panorama of Port Elizabeth
A.A.Balkema
1971
page 114
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Garden of Gethsemane Jerusalem Israel
Picture from the booklet
Jerusalem - The Garden Tomb
In The Garden
I thank YOU, LORD, for giving me that very special day
in such a hurried schedule, to stop, and think, and pray,
To draw aside in stillness from every earthly care
and in the beauty of YOUR peace, feel your sweet presence there.
How good it was to stoop down and see YOUR empty tomb,
To know YOU rose victorious, and thus sealed satan's doom,
Death could not hold YOU captive, with fingers chill and grey,
YOU tore aside the gates of hell and rolled that stone away.
Yet my heart rejoices to know YOU live again,
To know we, too, are deathless, and with YOU soon will reign,
I see you in the garden amongst some olive trees
bent low in deepest anguish, in prayer, upon YOUR knees.
How much YOU had to suffer, we may not even know,
Or what it meant to YOU to be despised by friend and foe,
To feel the whiplash on YOUR back and cruel, sharp, thorny crown
Or rusty nails in hands and feet, as crimson blood flowed down.
I won't forget that garden or tomb where once YOU lay,
How quietly YOU met with me and spoke to me that day:
A moment oh so precious, filled with joy and peace divine
when I felt YOUR heavenly touch upon this humble soul of mine.
In the Garden (Gethsemane) ISRAEL
Reproduced by kind permission
Reflections
SJA
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Our Heritage Main Street Port Elizabeth
Book Title - Port Elizabeth
Photograph Basil Korkie
Page 31
Bottom left - Port Elizabeth Library
St Mary's Church
Centre picture - Main Street
Port Elizabeth Overlooking Humewood From The Donkin
Port Elizabeth from the Donkin looking south over Humewood
Photograph by Basil Korkie
Port Elizabeth
Page 29
Foreground - The Donkin
White's Road
Left - Algoa Bay with the Harbour Jetty
Baakens River Bridge which became Main Street into the town centre
Humewood
Bottom Left - Sandstone building St. Peter's Church
Friday, August 29, 2008
Eastern Cape's First Chamber of Commerce Port Elizabeth
Left Mr. Joseph Simpson 1865 Chairman, Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
centre Mr. Henry Christian 1866 - 1896 Chairman, Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
right Sir Frederick Blaine 1878, Chairman, Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
1880, Chairman, Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
1885 - 1892, Chairman, Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
1894 - 1895 Chairman, Port Elizabeth Chamber of Commerce
Port Elizabeth +1840
Picture Mr W.A.Harris
Foreground - The Baakens river
Hilltop [left of picture] - The Donkin Memorial erected +1820
Foot of hill - St. Mary's Church
Bay - Algoa Bay
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Hate Crimes Port Elizabeth
This photo is from a newspaper clipping in a local newspaper and shows one of the many violent rapes against woman in South Africa. This woman was placed on a railway track and was dismembered. It is a graphic and disgusting picture which speaks a thousand words concerning South Africa's violence. Perhaps this was one mother or a homemaker who was RAPED AND MURDERED, but unfortunatly they are very, very common in this country. Pray for mothers and women in this land, for their safety and protection.
Hayley Westenra Heaven Port Elizabeth
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Heaven
Hayley Westenra
From "Songs of Praise"
Purchase Hayley's CD's at her website www.hayleywestenra.com
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Pray for Israel Port Elizabeth
May those who love you be secure. May there be PEACE within your walls and security within your citadels. For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, ‘Peace be within you.’ Because of the house of the Lord our God I will seek your prosperity." Psalm 122:6-9
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University of Port Elizabeth
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www.southafricanembassy.fi/?s=education
The University of Port Elizabeth was internationally renowned for its academic standards. Many of its achievers can be found across the world, and indeed South Africa. Located on the eastern seaboard its complex is just south of the city near Summerstrand. After 1994 the name and constitution of the university was changed.
The Ten Commandments Decalogue Parchment 1786 AD Port Elizabeth
Jekuthiel Safer
1786 AD
Picture Source Wikipedia
Exodus 20
1. You shall have no other gods before ME
2. You shall not make for yourself a carved image...or bow down to them...I Am a jealous GOD...
3. You shall not take the name of the LORD your GOD in vain...
4. Remember the Sabbath day and keep it Holy
5. Honour your father and your mother
6. You shall not murder
7. You shall not commit adultry
8. You shall not steal
9. You shall not bear false witness...
10.You shall not covet...
"Except you exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees you will in no wise enter the Kindom of Heaven".
JESUS
These are powerful words as who in the modern age can exceed the righteousness of the Pharisees? "There is not one who is righteous", declares the LORD. When Moses smashed the tablets of stone upon which the ten commandments were written it was symbolic of what mankind would do to each of GOD's moral standards. We need a sacrifice, we need JESUS the perfect sacrifice for our Sin and the sins we commit from day to day. JESUS offered his life for you accept HIS gracious wonderful sacrificial gift.
JESUS said you must be born again to enter the kingdom of heaven!
The Influence of the Magna Carta 1215 AD Port Elizabeth
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QUOTE: "Magna Carta (Latin for Great Charter, literally "Great Paper"), also called Magna Carta Libertatum (Great Charter of Freedoms), is an English charter originally issued in 1215. It required the King to renounce certain rights, respect certain legal procedures and accept that his will could be bound by the law. It explicitly protected certain rights of the King's subjects, whether free or fettered — most notably the writ of habeas corpus, allowing appeal against unlawful imprisonment....
Magna Carta was the most significant early influence on the extensive historical process that led to the rule of constitutional law today. Magna Carta influenced the development of the common law and many constitutional documents, such as the United States Constitution.....
After the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and advances in the 12th century, the English king had by 1199 become a powerful and influential monarch in Europe. Factors contributing to this include the sophisticated centralised government created by the procedures of the new Norman systems of governance and extensive Anglo-Norman land holdings in Normandy. But after King John of England was crowned in the early 13th century, a series of failures at home and abroad, combined with perceived abuses of the king's power, led the English barons to revolt and attempt to restrain what the king could legally do."
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The Magna Carta was legally binding on the King, and his subjects, in all its territories. The content and legal aspect of the document, to limit abuse of power differs from the social systems of chiefs on continents and islands where none of their subjects had land ownership, or full ownership of possessions. It is by far the most modern legal democratic idea for its time, and on which all free nations modeled their good governance, in recent times.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Art Rennaisance Algoa Bay Port Elizabeth
The J.Paul Getty Museum
Head of Christ
Antonio Allegri
1489/94 - 1534
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
King George VI Art Gallery Rink Street Port Elizabeth
King George VI
Image Wikipedia
The Port Elizabeth Art Gallery was built in 1956 and named after King George VI in line with the city's English history and its founding fathers. The gallery can be located in Rink Street, although now under another name, next to one of Port Elizabeth's oldest grave sites and at the juncture of two roads, Brick Makers Valley Road winding down the Baakens River valley below the old Fort, and the other through Western Road down the steep hill which becomes Whites Road past the Donkin Memorial and old St Peter's Church, which becomes a T junction onto Main Street.
The Prayer of JESUS Port Elizabeth
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Family Photo
The Prayer of JESUS
Our FATHER
Which art in Heaven
Hallowed be THY Name
THY Kingdom come
THY will be done
In earth as it is in heaven
Give us this day our daily bread
and Forgive us our trespasses
As we forgive those that trespass against us
and let us not be lead into temptation
But deliver us from evil
For Thine is the Kingdom
The Power
and the Glory
For Ever and Ever
Amen
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Port Elizabeth Environs
St Francis Bay
The houses are all styled on the famous whitewashed Cape Dutch dwellings of the Western Cape along man made canals. The canals are well known to overseas investors and many businessmen from abroad have purchased these spectacular properties as holiday homes. The wonderful climate is another attraction and canal cruises can be made from the tiny canal harbour , a must for the visitor.
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