In November 1964 Syd Alder, owner of Port Alfred’s Langdon Hotel on the west of the Kowie River, invited the Ravens rock band from Grahamstown (now Makhanda) to audition or do trial runs as the hotel resident band for the 1964/1965…
Owner ponders timing of offer to purchase on the day of the blaze The Ferryman’s Hotel bar was gutted by fire in the early hours of Tuesday morning in a suspected case of arson after the alcohol was stolen. The manager of the hotel,…