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Bishop Wilfred Wood
Wilfred Wood is a Bajan who became the first Black Anglican Bishop of Croydon in the UK in 1985. He was an activist priest in Britain for forty years, from 1962 to 2002. Bishop Wilfred retired to Barbados in 2003 and continues to live there. On 15th June 2026 he celebrated his 90th birthday, a…
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Barbados Standpipes Map Project
Falkland Islands
Hon. Alderman Doreen Madolin Weatherhead: 5th Nov 1931 – 5th Feb 2026
Lay-off Cuba
Ruby Cottage – A Memory
Meeting Turn and Me: A Look at Our Life in Barbados
June 1975 Barbados Rally is still the best
The Barbados Railway 1881-1937
BajanThings eleven years on…
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Celebrating 10 years of BajanThings
A selection of BajanThings posts from the last 10 years.
High Altitude Research Project (HARP) 1962 – 1967
Operation Carlota – Cuba’s secret flights to Angola via Barbados
Rediffusion Barbados (1934 -1997)
The game of Warri
A Fisherman’s Tale
The Printed Maps of Barbados 1500s – 1980s (Overview)
How “badjohn” became a word
F/O Errol Barrow RAF Navigator World War II & Prime Minister of Barbados
The Colin Hudson Great (Barbados) Train Hike
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My Grandfather was a crew member and survivor aboard Lady Drake when it was attacked and sunken near Bermuda. Where…
Really fun read. Brought to my mind the good old bajan school of Standpipe.. Thank you for doing this.
Thank you for your efforts in making the bridge between the past and the present a colourful and interesting journey.…
There was one at Cattlewash, nearby Round Rock. My family spent a month down there every year from the early…
I have focussed on the northern parishes as that is where I do most of my running and hiking. Based…