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    Haunted by Janet

    This is a follow on post to: Hurricane Janet – 22 September 1955. 70 years on Clem Griffiths recalls Hurricane Janet. Some Bajans measure life by elections, others by cricket matches – but me? By hurricanes. My first brush was Janet of 1955, though at two years old I nearly slept through it… until a…

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The 1679 Barbados Census - a searchable databaseThe 1679 Barbados Census – a searchable database
Bajan SeasoningBajan Seasoning
Index of Family Names taken from Barbados Maps between 1657 and 1847Index of Family Names taken from Barbados Maps between 1657 and 1847
High Altitude Research Project (HARP) 1962 - 1967High Altitude Research Project (HARP) 1962 – 1967
Ronnie Hughes: Barbadian Sugar Plantations Index 1640 - 1846Ronnie Hughes: Barbadian Sugar Plantations Index 1640 – 1846
The Printed Maps of Barbados - Part 1: 1500s - 1700The Printed Maps of Barbados – Part 1: 1500s – 1700
Bygone Barbados photographs held in the UK National ArchivesBygone Barbados photographs held in the UK National Archives
The game of WarriThe game of Warri
Handbook of Barbados: Plantations & Sugar-Works 1912 - 1924Handbook of Barbados: Plantations & Sugar-Works 1912 – 1924

The one anomaly is the Bajan Seasoning post. This post is consistently at the top of the BajanThings most popular post list. It was one of four test post’s we wrote in December 2014 when setting up this website. It scores highly on Google search results. Maybe we should be doing more “Recipes from Granny’s cook book” type posts!

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August 2024 to September 2024

Over time our BajanThings home page has evolved. This was the design of the home page from August 2024 – September 2024. It was the first iteration of what is now the current Home page. In August 2024 we upgraded from the block theme Ollie to Ollie Pro.

The key differences between the production version and this interim version is that: the current posts section the link and excerpt text are left aligned rather than centred and the read more is a link rather than a white button; and for the the back-catalogue of posts section and the most popular BajanThings posts section, the feature images are thumbnail sized.