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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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My regular St. Philip early morning hike
One of my many pleasures of being retired is being able to leave home before sunrise and go for an early morning hike in St. Philip. Everyday on my early morning hike I meet the same people. Some waiting at bus stops, early morning walkers, cyclists and farmers tending their crops and animals. A lady…
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The Terracotta Warriors – Xi’an, China
This month we have a double bill. Yesterday we shared our trip to Angkor Wat. Today we share our trip to visit see the army of Terracotta Warriors which were discovered by farmers in Xi’an, China while digging a well back in 1974. Today the excavated fragments are being meticulously pieced back together by a…
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The Temples of Angkor Wat – Cambodia
For Chinese New Year 2014 which was late January, we did something that had been on our family bucket list for a very, very, long time. We went to Cambodia to visit the Angkor Wat Temples. That trip was triggered by the fact that after being in Asia for nearly 20 years, my wife, Susan…
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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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