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Sir Michael Stoute – iconic Bajan born racehorse trainer
Iconic racehorse trainer Sir Michael Stoute, aged 78, has announced his retirement at the end of the 2024 UK horse racing season. Known as man of few words, Stoute confirmed his retirement plans with a typically short statement to the PA news agency on Tuesday 10th September 2024: “I have decided to retire from training…
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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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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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Windrush 75 – Pioneers & Champions
The HMT Empire Windrush is best remembered for bringing one of the first large groups of post-war Commonwealth citizens from the Caribbean to the UK in June 1948. The ship’s name is used to denote what in the UK is known as the Windrush Generation. These are the estimated 500,000 Commonwealth citizens who immigrated from…
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F/L Fredrick Edsall Clarke RCAF 414 Army Cooperation Squadron 1917 – 2005
This is the story of Fred Clarke Jr. (known as Freddy / “Knobby” in the RCAF) who was born in 1917 in West Byfleet in Surrey, England while his Bajan father Maj. Frederick C Clarke MD MC 1883 – 1941 was serving in France with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps (RCAMC) during World War I. After…
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David Miles-Hanschell’s book series: Diary of a Shipping Clerk…
David Miles-Hanschell is a Bajan who settled in Scotland fifty years ago. He has lived on the Isle of Bute (an island in the Firth of Clyde on the East coast of Scotland) for the last thirty years where he was an inspirational primary school teacher. Having retired David set up and self funded a…
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