BajanThings five years on…

2020 marks a new decade and BajanThings five years on.  It also marks the 100^th anniversary of the birth of Errol Barrow on 21^st January 2020.  Errol Barrow’s time in the RAF between 1940 and 1947 is covered in two posts: Errol Barrow – Statesman, Prime Minister of Barbados, RAF Navigator World War II and The Beautiful Blonde in the Bank a downloadable book by Errol Barrow’s pilot Andrew Cole covering their time training in Canada and flying together with 88 Squadron and BAFO Communications Squadron.

In celebration of  the 100^th anniversary of the birth of Errol Barrow we lead with a photo of Errol Barrow and his RAF 88 Squadron crew.  The photo marks their graduation from  Course no. 48 No. 31 Operational Training Unit RAF Debert, Nova Socia, Canada on 7 April 1944.  The crew are standing in front of a Lockheed Hudson.  Analysis of pilot Andrew Cole’s RAF log book shows he flew 51 combat missions with his crew totalling 109 hours and 25 mins combat flying.  Errol Barrow was not part of the crew for 3 sorties between 28 February 1945 and 10 March 1945.  Barrow flew 48 sorties giving him 103 hours and 25 mins combat flying time.

As 2019 draws to a close and we look forward to a new decade, it is time to reflect on the BajanThings over the last twelve months and over the last five years since its launch in December 2014.

BajanThings focuses on the things we are passionate about:

• recording events that we have witnessed, or told by those who did and the life of some of the people who were born in, or had connections to, Barbados and made their mark on the world stage
• hiking in Barbados and overseas.

We wish to thank all those who have encouraged BajanThings to continue writing, those who gave us information, those who have shared old photographs with us, our guest contributors, our subscribers and those who write to us when we miss a comma or make a spelling error. Thank you.  In 2020 we look forward to continuing to provide posts that educate, enlighten and inform.

Below is a table of all the BajanThings posts to date.  We are constantly amused by the fact that the first few test posts we did while learning to use WordPress: Bajan Seasoning, Bajan Rum Punch, Bajan Hot Pepper Sauce and Bajan Fried Flying Fish keep floating to the top of the ranking thanks to Google’s search engine!  Excluding these 4 test posts, BajanThings has made 99 posts since its launch in December 2014 when the idea for this website was germinated over a few rums and beers following a family drive around the island with visiting cousins.

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The BajanThings crew – Peter Burton and William Burton
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