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Oak Cottage, Alexandria

Oak Cottage, Alexandria, Eastern Cape, South Africa. See map.
Built as a church c.1840.
Home of William Henry Gibbon from 1858.
He ran a school there.
He died at Alexandria, 1894.
The building later became Sacred Heart Catholic Centre.

Apparently this is Oak Cottage, Alexandria.
Posted in 2023 by Ron Mackenzie.
According to a comment here it is Oak Cottage.
Geoff Gibbon says this was pointed out to him as the Gibbon house.
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Ron Mackenzie also posted a video.

Street view of the building.
It is at the corner of Retief St and Church St, close to the Old Courthouse and Jail.
Click to rotate. From here.