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Barbados History – Professor Richard Drayton
We hope you had a Happy Christmas with your family and friends. We thought you might enjoy this 30 minutes potted history of Barbados by Professor Richard Drayton from Kings College in the UK. Professor Richard Drayton gave the 2023 Errol Barrow Day lecture in London at All Saints’ Church, Notting Hill Gate, London W11…
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Bajan Dew Ponds
David Marshall, a great source of information on Barbados, mentioned to me that there were dew ponds in the area of Well House in St. Philip. He said that they collected water to feed animals in the dry times. I initially thought that these ponds somehow collected dew and stored it. I asked a few…
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Barbados “land of the flying fish” luggage stickers of the 1960s
In the 1960s and 1970s Barbados flying fish luggage stickers used to be given away at tourist entry and exit ports together with other welcome pack items such as tourism styled maps. During the 1950s and 1960s tourist literature often referred to Barbados as: “the land of the flying fish” which is why luggage stickers…
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The Quakers in Barbados – The untold story: The will of Samuel Forde
This is the fifth video in a series where John Knox tells the untold story of The Quakers in Barbados focusing in this episode on the will of Samuel Forte and his vault. The above photographs were taken by Professor Hans Machel, Professor emeritus of Geology at the University of Alberta who was staying with…
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The Quakers in Barbados – The untold story: Drax was a Quaker Family
This is the fourth video in a series where John Knox tells the untold story of The Quakers in Barbados focusing in this episode on the Drax and Codrington families. John has recently setup a YouTube channel: @TheUntoldHistoryOfBarbados. It’s about: The Untold History of Barbados – Amerindians, Quakers and Slavery. As John adds to his…
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The Quakers in Barbados – The untold story: The wills of Henry Gallop, John Holder, George Foster, his wife Grace and his cousin Thomas
This is the third video in a series where John Knox tells the untold story of The Quakers in Barbados focusing in this episode on the wills of the Gallop, Holder and Foster families. John has recently setup a YouTube channel: @TheUntoldHistoryOfBarbados. It’s about: The Untold History of Barbados – Amerindians, Quakers and Slavery. As…
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The Quakers in Barbados – The untold story: An Introduction & Addendum
These two videos are the first in a series of videos where John Knox tells the untold story of The Quakers in Barbados. John Knox has documented a number of stories on the History of the Quakers in Barbados for BajanThings: John has recently setup a YouTube channel: @TheUntoldHistoryOfBarbados. It’s about: The Untold History of…
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The vitamin C content of the Barbados Cherry – Iris Bayley
The vitamin C content of the Barbados cherry was researched by Iris Bayley (later: Iris Bannochie) in the late 1940s and 1950s. Her research on the Barbados cherry followed on from the work done by Conrado F Asenjo and Ana Rosa Freire de Guzmán, who in February 1946 published a paper in Science on their…
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Two Barbados Tourist films one from the 1960s and one from the 1970s
A look back in time. We recently came across these two Barbados Tourist Board promotional films: Barbados West Indian Wonderland from the 1960s and Magic Isle from the 1970s. Enjoy the nostalgia of these two promotional films. The first film is a Barbados Tourist Board film from the 1960s, promotes Barbados as a tourist destination,…
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Aircraft losses Pont-Saint-Martin during World War II – Remembering P/O George Inniss and the crew of Hampden AD750 from RAF 106 Squadron
In France the 8th May is la fête de la Victoire 1945, le jour de la libération. It is a national holiday when those that gave their lives fighting for the freedom of France are remembered. The date celebrates the announcement of the end of World War II by Gen. Charles de Gaulle on 8th…
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