File:Port Elizabeth Tramways old photo with tram crossing bridge over baakens.JPG
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DescriptionPort Elizabeth Tramways old photo with tram crossing bridge over baakens.JPG |
English: Port Elizabeth Old Tramways Building, Lower Valley Road, Port Elizabeth, South Africa. |
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Author | Suzi-k |
Camera location | 33° 57′ 54.36″ S, 25° 37′ 32.59″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | -33.965099; 25.625720 |
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The tramways Building was built in 1897 and has survived many catastrophes in its history, including major floods, architecturally insensitive additions and a fire. It has had some changes in use too, from premises for horse drawn trams, electric trams, buses and a period as an ice rink. It features in many of the earliest photos of the Baakens valley in PE.
From being a working bus shed and later an ice rink, the building was eventually abandoned and became derelict, a dangerous place to go, and the haunt of many vagrants. There was much outcry that the Municipality could let one of its own buildings get into such a shameful state and that this compromised their ability to enforce protection of historic buildings owned by other landowners in the city.
Fortunately after a battle to get the legalities resolved it is currently being restored by the Mandela Bay Development Agency and the future looks better. As this old commercial building is such a landmark in Port Elizabeth, it deserves National Monument status so that it can be protected from future neglect or misuse.
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This work was first published in South Africa and is now in the public domain because its copyright protection has expired by virtue of the Copyright Act No. 98 of 1978, amended 2002. The work meets one of the following criteria:
A South African work that is in the public domain in South Africa according to this rule is in the public domain in the U.S. only if it was in the public domain in South Africa in 1996, e.g. if it was published before 1946 and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the effect of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.) |
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