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Arthur Hutchinson’s abandoned Lime Kiln at Ragged Point, Barbados
To extract sugar from sugar cane Calcium Oxide (CaO) known as lime has to be added to the cane juice. This allows the impurities to precipitate and be removed from the juice. This is done in large settling tanks after the cane juice is heated. The residue, called mud, is filtered out and used to fertilise…
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The Wreck of the SV Nordenskjold
The SV Nordenskjold was a 3 masted, wooden barque built in 1880 for Brunchorst & Dekke, Bergen, Norway. She was 167.8 feet long and had a beam of 34.5 feet. During the next 30 years she changed ownership 5 times and in 1910 was owned by Joh F. Juell. On the 18th of October 1891…
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Oistins Fish Fry – Barbados. Annies BBQ where locals go for lunch, dinner and a drink
Richard Ligon wrote in his A True and Exact History of Barbadoes (first published in 1657) ….which they called Auftins Bay, not in commemoration of any Saint, but of a wild mad drunken fellow, whofe lewd and extravagant carriage made him infamous in the island; and his Plantation standing near this Bay, it was called…
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Keeping fish fresh before refrigeration
Before the introduction of refrigeration, keeping meat fresh was a problem. One option was to dry and and salt the meat and stored in a cool and dry place. For those who lived on the coast, salt water fish pools / fish ponds were often used. When a lot of fish was caught the excess…
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2nd Lt Walter Tull – first black infantry officer in British Army (1888 – 1918)
Walter Daniel John Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent, on 28 April 1888 to Barbadian carpenter Daniel Tull and Kent-born Alice Elizabeth Palmer. In 1895, when Walter was seven, his mother died of cancer. A year later his father married Alice’s cousin, Clara Palmer. She gave birth to a daughter Miriam, on 11 September 1897.…
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Sid Graham. A forgotten Bajan WWII hero (1920 – 2017)
Sid Graham was born in Tidal Basin, Custom House in the London’s East End in 1920, the son of Sidney “Siddy” Graham a seaman from Barbados and his English wife Emma an East Ender. Sid made it to his 97th birthday on 28th January 2017 and sadly passed away on 30th April 2017. Until then…
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Thor Heyerdahl’s Ra Expeditions to Barbados: Ra I 1969, Ra II 1970
Thor Heyerdahl was born in Norway in 1914. After studying at the Oslo University he went to the Marquesas Islands in the Pacific. He and his wife studied the possibility that the Pacific Islanders could have migrated from South America many centuries before. World War II interrupted his work. He served with the free Norwegian…
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Blue Box Cart. The growing years 1982 to 1991
At COT Printers, sometime in the last week of July 1982 a planning committee with Nigel, Claire, Bob and Jeffrey for the upcoming Kadooment is in progress. A few drinks soon produced a cart used to move paper around the office. A wooden box arrived and was nailed to it. Someone had Blue paint and the name that has…
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Memorials for departed friends
Doctor & Professor Sam Cavney, George Baker, Ray Beamer and Bob Scott Between the demolished Long Beach Hotel and the HARP Gun are 3 Cairns built in memory of Sam, Ray and George. For many years I have walked past and wondered who these three men were. Recently Beverly and I walked there. She knew…
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Baby Burts trialling for the Windies cricket team!
Baby Burts (Connie as he is known at school) is 10. Baby Burts is half Bajan and dreams of playing cricket for the Windies and emulating Garfield Sobers who hit six sixes in an over at a county cricket match on 31st August 1968 in Cardiff. Baby Burts is also half Scottish and dreams of…
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