These are just a few selected spots, and they should make for a good two-hour stroll about town:
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]e start at the bottom of Cross Street near Bree, at a typical old-style Karoo house where celebrated writer, activist and general Karoo VIP Olive Schreiner once lived as a girl.Curator Brian Wilmot will show you around the house and its displays, including the little bookshop at the back.
[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he lovely façade of these offices was built in the mid-1860s and its core has been preserved through generations of ‘upgrades’ and renovations that followed. It is still one of the striking bits of Victorian architecture that remain in Cradock.
3. Dutch Reformed Church (Moederkerk)
4. The Blessing Hair Salon, JA Calata Street
5. The Cradock Cemetery
[dropcap]F[/dropcap]ollow Calata Street down past the sports fields and you will find yourself at one of the Karoo’s most interesting graveyards. This is where Anglo-Boer War heroes, Polar pioneers, old Cradock families and all manner of villains rest. Look out for the grave of one Harry Potter.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]alk up the hill to Naested Street and turn right. Presently you will come to one of the most beautiful high school building complexes in the Eastern Cape. Cradock High School (formerly Rocklands High School) is still a very highly regarded educational centre and prides itself on its achievements in the classroom and on the sportsfield.
[dropcap]M[/dropcap]eander down through Durban Street past Mila’s Restaurant and you will come to a shrine to yesteryear, in the form of an old horse drinking trough. Many travellers and their mounts drank of the free waters of Cradock back in the 1800s.
8. Magistrate’s Court Building
9. Die Tuishuise, Market Street
- Andre Malan’s Cradock Heritage Highlights can be purchased at the Schreiner Museum on Cross Street.