The Bajan Lifestyle is Tied Closely to the Land
Bajans enjoy life and love to have fun often laughing out loud - what we call a 'standpipe laugh'.
1963 flying clubs cessna 140 vq bab
Early Days Light Airplane Club
1961 - 73
This was when the club was a building made with telephone poles and galvanise sheets on the North side of the tarmac about where the current arrival terminal is now -
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Barbados Landship 'Vanguard'
The Sugar Hill / Braggs Hill 'Ship'
Landship Vanguard, Tuk Band, Maypole in Sugar Hill / Bragg's Hill.
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Early Motor Sport Island
Driving fast was the order of the day
The early driver's I knew in the mid 60's were the wild guys from the Rockley area - Andrew 'Tenderfoot' Philips, Harry and Basil Watkins, Richard Rose, Michael Atwell and so many others -
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Sugar Hill - Major Project Image Library
Major Project 1971-73 by Roll
Looking back over all of these older photos I realize how much Barbados has given me.
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Sugar Hill - Bajan Village Life
Sugar Hill village entered my life in 1965
One thousand feet above sea-level was another world - you could feel the temperature cool the few degrees that made it impossible to be too hot there.
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The Genesis of Barbados Surfing!
We had seen PanAm travel movies of Hawaii that led us to believe that the waves in Barbados were too small to stand up surf.
This view changed after John saw two guys surf at Rockley. He spent his Easter holidays building 'the red board' and Val and Alan Knowles and William Tomlin and others came by to check it out.
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Shipwrights of Shermans
Hand Made Fishing Boats - St. Peter - 1977
St. Peter's Shipwright Selwyn Douglin's career began in 1937
and boat building has been booming since then.
"When things begin to roll fast, everything gets faster, even in the building of boats," Selwyn Douglin reports.
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Learning The Way in the Barbadian East Indian Muslim Community
Exploring the Barbadian East Indian Community - article from 1976.
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Rasheed Boodhoo - A Young Artist
" Mostly my love for art put me where I am "
says Rasheed Boodhoo as he looks back into his creative history and assesses his progress. He nurtures the talent for art, which he believes has been bestowed upon him, by constant use of pastels, acrylics and charcoal.
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Home Cures – A Barbadian Tradition
An exploration of home cures used in Barbados - article from 1976.
Leon Thorpe and Maud Mayers explain the various plants and methods used in bush teas and other home cures.
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Ladies of the Land
Our Agricultural Heroes
The agricultural burden in the country side of Barbados has fallen heavily on the women field workers.
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Chris Alleyne - A Tribute
Chris was a 'Doer' –
he grabbed life by the horns and ran with it!
May you sail your new journeys with
"Fair Winds and Following Seas"
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The Sea in our Veins!
Rockley Beach - My Childhood Playground
Today is the 12th Dec, 2019 – the last full moon of the decade and my 68th birthday! I don't know how time has flown so fast as I still feel like I'm about 19 or 20.
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The Hazards of Running Wild!
Bicycle Crashes, Nail Juks and other Misfortunes
Who wore shoes?
You usually had two pairs – one were nice brown leather Clarks, with leather soles that were very slippery when wet, that were worn to school