Spring on the Esplanade

Spring is into gear, new things continue to pop up everywhere, and leave. The sand is back on the beach in front of the sea wall, thanks to ...

Hotel taking form

A foggy morning before work.

St Clair Hotel Update

update on the construction of the Chittock Empires' Hotel on the corner of The Esplanade and Bedford Street. Two below, back in April/Ma...

underway at St Clair

Below: The two houses are gone, every scrap of their existance has been removed, the topsoil/sand has been stripped/levelled in preparation ...

Trucking out the Old

Below: ready to truck out.. the house on the corner.. stripped of its bricks, and parted from its foundations.

Esplanade development over time

Foundations are now going up for the new beauty therapy business. On the section previously was the longest running commercial building in t...

destruction and creation

The bricks are coming off .. the hotel is going up, the character of the esplanade is guaranteed to change drastically .. the implications o...

incomprehensible timing

Within the same week.. the front page of the ODT again. Seriously? with the very real threat of more severe erosion along the same beachfr...