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Nigg, Belvedere, Hampshire and Williamsburg  were  new housing schemes located North of the highway, about a mile inland from the Atlantic ocean.

Behind the last row of houses was a swampy savannah with fishes and spika birds, mongrove sea defence and a shell beach with ocean silt.

These housing settelemts  starting from Albion Front to Rose Hall Town. Buildings on the South side of the highway were there previously.  Williamsburg being closest to Rose Hall Town, is now part of that town, but Nigg, Belvedere  and Hampshire are still part of the Albion/Kilcoy NDC. 

This area was once covered with crab grass, where canals were dug and roads made. The bridges were first wooden structures, that are now concrete culverts.    

I believe the horse betting place was located where Albion school head teacher house was once located at Albion Front, that is now a restaurant.  Yollanda  cinema was also located at Albion Front. Albion Front was where the two-mile road began from the highway, that went to the sugar factory.   

These housing settlements on most sugar estates resulted after a Sugar Workers Warfare Fund report published in the 1950s, describing the poor living conditions and  sanitation on sugar estate logies.

On most sugar estates like Port Mourant, Skeldon, Albion, etc the new houses were built around 1959, when the logies were removed.

I was told the logies were  first built for the slaves. 

Is there a specific place at Albion called Albion ? Where was Old Albion  and now New Albion ? Khire's Lust is not a correct answer.     

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