Die verslaggewer aan wie Generaal Christiaan De Wet een van sy min onderhoude toegestaan het...
The village founded by a Scottsman in 1836 eventually became the most important trade route between the Free State and the Cape Colonies!
Norvals Pont village is located on the Southern bank of the Orange River just where the Northern Cape meets the EasternCape, looking across to the Free State on the Northern bank which is reached by means of two historic bridges; one for the railway and one for the road.
The village was founded in the 1840s when Scotsman John Norval began a ferry service across the Orange, naming the ferry, or pont, the "Glasgow" after his home town which, in turn, gave our Hotel its illustrious name. The Glasgow Pont is probably one of the very last of the real old-time Karoo hotels, and while it may seem to lack some of the features of more up-to-date establishments, few other Inns can equal the quality of our hospitality and cuisine or the convenience of our location.
Open a reference work on any of three South African or “Boer” Wars and a simple glance through the index will show a surprising number of entries for the apparently insignificant hamlet of Norval’s Pont, established at the very edge of the old Cape Colony on the banks of the River Orange. Victorian reformer Emily Hobhouse wrote in warm tones about her two visits there and, as some may know, an elegant stone in Canterbury Cathedral records the name Norval’s Pont carefully chiselled out in marble and stone.
Die verslaggewer aan wie Generaal Christiaan De Wet een van sy min onderhoude toegestaan het...
Toe die Koning (of Koningin) se troepe oorspronklik uit Brittanje weg is om die Britse...
Skape wat gedurende die Boere Oorlog by Norvals Pont gebuit is, is geslag en gaargemaak...
Terwyl ons almal die idee van wilde, bebaarde Kommando-lede met vol bandoliere het, was daar...
Lord Harry Smith met his wife during the Peninsular wars and brought this lovely Spanish...
Among the many who plied their trade and wares around the ferry point at Norval’s...
The correspondent to whom General Christiaan De Wet gave interview after the war was none...
Die befaamde "Heer" Harry Smith het 'n pragtige Spaanse bruid gehad, wat hy saam met...
While we all carry firm images of wild looking, bearded Kommando’s in bandolier-ed splendor there...
When the soldiers of the Queen (or King) first set out to win an Empire,...
The sheep taken at Norval’s Pont during the War were despatched and cooked under the...
Die Pont by Norvalspont het verskeie interessante persone gesien gedurende sy lang geskiedenis. Een van...
