At present 556 Govan Mbeki Avenue, North End, is home to the oldest petrol station in Gqeberha.
Established 100 years ago in 1925, Sharwoods Service Station is the oldest petrol station in Gqeberha.
The founder of Sharwoods, Alec Sharwood, was born in Kimberly in 1899 during the Boer war. He was a pilot in the first world war and, on returning to Kimberly, trained at de Beers.
He then moved to Grahamstown in 1923 where he started a business selling Dort cars. A year later he moved to Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha) and started a petrol filling station selling Atlantic petrol… Read the full article here: NMB Wiki
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