That's Stabroek Market tower in the distance

In 1899 a group of Canadian industrialists, who had just built the electric tramway in Kingston, Jamaica, founded Demerara Electric Company in Montreal and purchased 14 open electric trams, with Westinghouse motors and Peckham trucks, from St. Louis Car Company in Missouri. The new cars were numbered 1-14. The photograph below was taken in Georgetown in 1900 [Street Railway Journal, New York, 6 April 1901, p. 417]:

Demerara Electric inaugurated its new tramway in Georgetown on 25 February 1901. Track gauge was "standard" 56 1/2 inches, the same as used by the country's pioneer steam railroad. The following picture, taken from the tower at Stabroek Market, shows one of the new electric cars on Croal Street. Note left-hand operation, British-style. The spire on the left belonged to Town Hall. The large building with three gables right center was the Court House [postcard, col. AM]:

The tram shown on this primitive, very early postcard, published about 1903, seems to be numbered 34 or 54. That is impossible, for no tram in Georgetown was numbered higher than 18. This must be car 14. It is about to cross one of the town's many canals

The postcard reproduced below shows the same view down Water Street, looking south toward Stabroek Market, as the second and third pictures above.. The tram is number 6

The Dutch laid wide streets in Georgetown with canals in the center, à la cities in the Netherlands. The British covered the canals with promenades and there was plenty of room for tram tracks on the side. The postcard view below shows car number 3 on Main Street

DEC ordered another pair of trams about 1909, numbered 17 and 18, this time from Brush Electrical Engineering Company in Loughborough (near Nottingham), England. (Exact date of the Brush order is unknown; Brush records are lost.) In contrast to the St. Louis cars, which had eight benches, the Brush trams had nine, but lacked bulkheads. DEC built a new line south to Peter's Hall

The English journal The Electrician reported 18 passenger motor trams running on 14 miles of standard gauge track in Georgetown in 1923. The Seawall route ran through a park near the Atlantic Ocean

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http://www.tramz.com/gy/g.html

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If dem PNC bais nah bin bruk up tings starting early 60's, abie bin gah ting good donk hay.  Dem juss like bruk up, bun donk and tief.

Back in 1953, section of estates gat blowup, canefields put on blaze, ppl gat beatup, ppl gat blackmailed and threatened by letter writers.

Since that time, we bin blowing up, beating up, theifing up and a very few bin living it up.

We in alot of ways like middle-eastern ppl. Since Cain killed Abel, in that region, there isn't a day that go by that human blood is not spilled.

WE in Guiana have experienced a downward spiral since Cheddi announced his decision to support communism.

quote "WE in Guiana have experienced a downward spiral since Cheddi announced his decision to support communism." unquote

It is debatable, as some will point out that before Cheddi, there was logies (do you know what a logie is?) before Cheddi water for using in the logies was obtained from trenches, there was no electric lights, if you were sick, you were forced to go to work in the fields, to become a teacher one had to be converted to Christianity........Cheddi started the ball rolling by challenging Massa.  

When he obtained shared power and had formed the Government, the people then had piped water in their community, housing as in housing schemes, electric lights and more.

Life in GT was very different from the life in Logies.

As a child, Cheddie lived at Miss Pheobe and that was not a Logie Settlement. After High school, he went to GT and after GT, he went off to USA and after USA he came back to GT.

My point, Housing Schemes were around long before Cheddie was able to wipe his baxside.

And the masses moved out of logie settlements because the estate wanted the land for cultivation and the majority of new housing schemes were created when Jock Camphell saw the urgency for it. Cheddie was not able to pressure Bookers.

  How come the whole Carbbean where all Guyanese run to never had a had a Cheddi to "challange Massa" but are still better off than Guyana? Trinidad, Bardados, St Lucia, Antigua etc. had the same colonial "Massa" but did'nt had a Cheddi. Is it the lack of Cheddi cause them to be better off today so Guyanese can flock to their shores?

They never had the CIA support and install a Dictator in their country. Least you do not know your history.

They never had to deal with CIA because they did'nt had a comunist sympatizer Cheddi. Check your "history"

You are one confused man and cannot debate sensibly. Go drink some AFC snake oil.

No he should go drink some stale PISS.

Hmmmm, Dah human wan social animal dem seh.

When Cheddi was fighting massa,if he had requested America to support him you think he would have got the support?..now don't run away let us get

some answers from the political pundits.

Merika NEVER helped anyone. Merika is ONLY concerned with SELF INTEREST.

Some nice pictures. Then coolies hard a hard time fitting in BG.

me bin a lil bhai at that time,any way if massa and and America like batt...and poee did Cheddi make a mistake to seek help form them

other people? waiting fuh some answers...

Since you hate "Merika" that much . . ., feel free to leave us [permanently] for the PPP paradise crafted by Jagdeo, Manny, Kwame, etc., where you can enjoy the hospitality of an expanding cohort of local catamites.

Eh eh, soa wah yuh deh stik up deh fah.  Nuff alyuh juss hypocrite up deh and donk hay.  Wy yuh hate Merika, weh yuh live, but love PPP weh yuh nah live.  Alyuh diss juss katahar coolie.

The whole caribbean at the time of Cheddi was colonize and with no tourist industry at the time, Guyana was ahead and doing better than than most of the Caribbean. At the time of Cheddi Guyana was the only colony the Brits had to implement visa  to control the migration of Islanders to its shores.   

All the colonies were in poverty, Guyana/Cheddi was not the only one that needed help. Fact, Cheddi with the support of his commy witch decide to piss of the USA and decleared themselfs communist.

 "Political Pundits" can twist and turn all the want but the fact is Cheddi brought the wrath of the super power USA on the Guyanese people, caused his 28 years political exile which leave the people to worst dictor of the century Forbs Burnham..may these two useless souls Cheddi and Burnham wander in the endless cosmos forever....

The two of you need pull your heads out of the PPP ass, the stench is causing serious brain damage..

BHARAT MATA KI JAI.  PREM BOLO BHAGWAN KI JAI'

WE HAVE COME A LONG WAY BABY. FROM LOGIES TO PALACES. GOD BLESS OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO MADE IT ALL POSSIBLE.

I do not doubt that in Guyana Indians have conquered; they over came a monumental 600 years curse as the bottom of the barrel in the society and definitive slaves of the upper class.

In Guyana, Indians of some 20 untouchable tribal heritage suddenly were able to breathe and become a fully operational human being with rights they never had.

Guyana's society was not the war zone. While it was no piece of cake it was a path to freedom at last, thank god almighty, freedom at last.

Typical Jagdeo idolizer.