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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'.

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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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mp05 721210 0014 An Ocean of Umbrellas - This was a multi-denominational religious service held at the Garrison Savannah Dec 10th 1972

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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Barbados Fishing Boat Taking Shape - Skeleton


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 Displays his Art work 1976

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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The East Coast of Barbados – Arguably the Most Beautiful Stretch of Coastline in the World!

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

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Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Barbados 1977

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On Board Ra II After Arrival

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Queen Elizabeth Loved the People of Barbados

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Thor Heyerdahl & Ra II Arrive in Barbados July 12th, 1970

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Queen Elizabeth II Knights Sir Garfield Sobers, 1975

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