Peter Burton

Peter Burton is part of the BajanThings crew. He is a co-editor of BajanThings.com with his cousin William Burton. Peter and William started BajanThings in December 2014 with the aim of building a website that focused on William's three loves: preserving handed down Bajan history, hiking and international travel. Peter maintains the BajanThings website and writes the occasional BajanThings post. Peter was born in Trinidad to Bajan parents. Peter's father, Jim Burton, worked in the oil industry, so as a child Peter grew up as a "third culture kid" in Trinidad, Barbados, England, Nigeria, Iran and Malta. He left Trinidad in 1970 aged 11 and went as a boarder to the Lodge School in Barbados. In 1971 he went to boarding school in England when his parents left Trinidad. His father retired to England in 1982. As an adult Peter has lived in England, Indonesia, Singapore and Hong Kong. After 20+ years in Asia, spent mainly in Hong Kong, Peter in 2014 returned to England and now lives in Surrey with his family. Peter trained as an engineer. In his early career he worked as a management consultant. Since 1998 he has worked in the field of advertising technology and programmatic advertising. Peter's day-time job is with with the start-up: SOLV Technology who have developed geo-defined advertising tools to help locate missing people and children. SOLV work with Law Enforcement Agencies, Emergency Response Agencies and Missing Persons Charities / NGOs to deliver messages that are broadcast as advertising banners within defined geographic areas on websites accepting commercial advertising.

Iris Bayley at Andromeda

The Bush Teas of Barbados – Iris Bayley

It is customary for many of the inhabitants of Barbados when they are ill to use as remedies watery infusions of various plants, known as “bush teas”. If the disease has definite characteristics, such as skin rashes, swelling or pain, the infusion is applied locally, or pieces of the plant are bandaged upon the affected …

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John R Archer Mayor of Battersea 1913

John Richard Archer – the first black mayor of a London borough in 1913

John Richard Archer was the first black mayor of a London Borough. In November 1913 he was elected for a one year term as Mayor of the London Borough of Battersea. Born in Liverpool, John Archer had a Bajan father and an Irish mother. The the first black person to be elected as a Mayor …

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BajanThings - Increasing mobile PageSpeed results

Increasing the mobile PageSpeed score from 26 to 90+ using WordPress Astra Pro theme hosted on SiteGround

This is how BajanThings boosted its mobile PageSpeed score from 26 (Poor) to 90+(Good). BajanThings uses the responsive WordPress theme: Astra Pro, hosted on SiteGround. This is a hobby site which was launched in December 2014. In 2017 we moved from a http:// to a https:// format. And in 2020 we gave the look and …

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P/O George Harold Frederick Inniss

P/O George HF Inniss: 31st May 1916 to 5th February 1941

Bajan pilot P/O George HF Inniss aged 24 and crew from 106 Squadron, RAF Bomber Command were killed-in-action on 4th/5th February 1941 when their aircraft a Handley Page Hampden Mk. I, AD750, crashed nose first at La Marronnière farm, La Marsoire, Pont-Saint-Martin, Loire-Atlantique (2 km SE of Aéroport Nantes Atlantique). Their aircraft was hit by …

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Leo Schultz photos album - Training in Canada

F/O Leo Leslie Schultz RAAF – 1921 to 1990

Errol Barrow’s crew in RAF 88 Squadron, “B” Flight, Second Tactical Air Force (2TAF) during World War II consisted of: English pilot Andy Cole and the two Australian rear wireless operator and air gunners (WAGs): Leo Schultz and Allen “Shorty” Stewart. BajanThings has covered both Errol Barrow’s time in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and his …

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A BajanThings 101 on AI Chatbots: ChatGPT and Bard. Why you MUST fact check the output…

Here is a BajanThings 101 on AI Chatbots – using Errol Barrow’s time in the RAF from 1940 to 1947 as the reference source. Artificial Intelligence (AI) ChatBots like ChatGPT and Bard are being promoted as the “next BIG thing”. With any new technology, there are bound to be some teething problems and issues that need …

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