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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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San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina
Happy Easter from BajanThings. This was the trip I did to Argentina just before Christmas. God willing in May I will be doing my favourite coast-to-coast walk from the West coast of Scotland to the East coast of Scotland which is about 320 km – The Great Outdoor Challenge 2024. In December 2023 I returned…
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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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Remembering Olaudah Equiano’s time in Barbados
I have often sat on the boardwalk on Wharf Road watching tourists walking into the centre of Bridgetown. Each of them will pass a memorial. It isn’t particularly small but most people walk by without a single glance. Some slow their stride to ‘skim read’ the wording. No one ever seems to stop and study…
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Maj. Frederick C Clarke MD MC 1883 – 1941
This is the story of Bajan doctor Maj. Frederick Clarence Clarke MD MC who served during World War I with the Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps. It is told by his grandsons: Ian and Christopher Clarke who both live in Canada. During World War I, from March 1915 to September 1919, Maj. Frederick Clarence Clarke MD MC, a Bajan…
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Tent Bay, St. Joseph, Barbados
As part of the 2024 new year update and spring clean we have updated the BajanThings homepage. The new BajanThings homepage features a hero image of a fishing boat at Tent Bay, St. Joseph. Going forward we aim to change the hero image on the homepage regularly – and will add a homepage hero images…
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BajanThings nine years on…
This is the ninth year of BajanThings. We celebrate achieving over 180 posts that educate, enlighten and inform our BajanThings readers. BajanThings was conceived at a bar over a few beers in December 2014 and a rough note on a napkin. Well not the napkin as this is the digital age. Within a few hours…
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The Bush Teas of Barbados – Iris Bayley
Patricia Bayley Mull sent us this pre-publication copy of her mother’s work on The Barbados Bush Teas. This paper was published in 1949 see: “The Bush-Teas of Barbados” by Iris Bayley, The Journal of The Barbados Museum and Historical Society – Vol. XVI No. 3 (May 1949). Iris Bayley is also referred to as Iris…
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