The tour begins at The Cock House, a guest house, once the home of entrepreneur and Port Alfred Harbour visionary, William Cock. A mill stood opposite – hence its neighbouring street name: Mill Street. Passing by the Market Square – well used for over 150 years by farmers, marketers or  travellers, comparisons with the painting by artist Thomas Baines lead to shocking conclusions about the slaughter of elephants, leopards and crocodiles for the skins and ivory trade. Visitors listen to a unique organ, stroll past story-book cottages, cobble stones, wagon stones and think of the rolling stones that inhabited this area. The first almshouse and Baptist Church as well as a quaint stone Anglican Church transport us back to an age of both industry and piety.
Sympathise with the challenges of erecting a double-storey house or the first hospital. Or join the retinues of unseen mourners of the past as you pay your respects at the glasssided horse-drawn hearse, loving preserved at a historical undertakers. A story or two of skeletons in Settler cupboards completes this
imaginative journey into the past.