Not ConVincing....

OK then Tola. Just as it is today, the PPP doan wanna be part of Guyana same thing back then, they stayed away and when dem boys made their currency, the PPP voters county (Berbice) got shock out.

Doan say PPP wasn't at the time, I know otherwise... they been underground

The PPP na even done yet and de devil takking ova de board.

Des bais like talking to dem self.

According to Gibakka, Berbice was always a janjhat county.

From William de IV to scratch balls Jagdeo. Both rass kok duk.   

Goody goody Friday morning.

Today we shall tour that janjhat county, BERBICE.

The father of a famous British tyre manufacturer once owned a business in New Amsterdam. What was his name and where in New Amsterdam was his business located?

Samuel, S Wreford  main street n/a  

No sir.

Yuh ever heard bout Wreford Tyres?

T.B Dunlop

Strand St

Barb-Ice : Dis is so nice to see, me dancing round in me marning bukta.

Django, you got a good one dea..Theodore 'Balltire' Dunlop.

But be careful who you listen to, me get into trouble listening to Cain.   

That's correct. T.B. Dunlop, the father of Dunlop Tyres founder John Boyd Dunlop, had a business on the Strand, New Amsterdam. In 1816 he sold the business to S. Davson.

Congrats!!

[NOTE: Dem Berbicians should slap yuh, Django. New Amsterdam ent got any Strand Street. That stretch of roadway is called Strand, New Amsterdam.]

ar..ight man i got accustomed in N.A. to street,ave,terrace

circle,boulevard ... etc

Them "jargetown" people prapah like mess up we places

Riya..nah me wcd country bhai.

Town Hall and Market, The Strand, New Amsterdam, circa 1920

This is a memorable photo, because the [leaning] tower was taken down a few years ago. Its was one of the landmarks seen from the Berbice river. 

They were going to rebuild the tower, but....

Pitt Street that runs into Strand and city hall, was destroyed by fire.   

Does anyone know if the Lenora government hospital in  Sept 1963, is now called the West Demerara hospital ?

Its a square, two-floor, flat-top building, in a corner of two streets, not paved at that time. 

West Demerara Hospital is in Best Village, next to Vreed-en-Hoop, not far from Demerara River mouth.

Leonora hospital is about 10 miles west of Vreed-en-Hoop. In 1963 there was the Leonora Estate Hospital south of the sugar factory. The hospital is presently located north of the public road.

Thanks Gil, the photo was taken in Leonora, Sept 1963 ...more in private.

FYI,

Gilbakka identified the hospital to be the 'Leonora Cottage Hospital and Diagnostic Centre', built in 1963 by the PPP. A short distance north of the public road and about five minutes walk from the sea wall.

The Estate Hospital near the sugar factory, built about 1900, was taken down.

Thanks Gil.

Leo and Nora : The name Leonora is Dutch coming from the time of Dutch occupation of the country. It originated from the names of two Dutch children, a boy named Leo and a girl named Nora. 

Tola, it was also called the Leonora Health Centre at the beginning.

Leonora Cottage Hospital:

Thanks Gil.

It looks the same with new roof and fence.

I am happy how this all came together from 1963 to now.

Holy crap 52 years ago and I still have the negative and proof print.

In our days it might have a British flag.

Its reminds me of time I did a photo-shoot at York University in Toronto and they were filming a movie with an American flag flying at the university.

Its weird seeing an American flag flying at a Canadian University, like dem taking over Canada.    

The Dutch couple (brother and sister) I lived with from age5 to 14, her name was Nora and her brother's name was....guess.

funny

A boy name Sue.  

Good morning.

Look carefully at this postcard. It shows Main Street in Georgetown a long time ago. On the left is the Chronicle building. On the right in foreground is a booth-like structure. What is that?

Cenotaph

No, sir.

Drinking fountain.

That's right. It was an ornate cast-iron drinking fountain.

Yuh see how much consideration de white colonialists had fo we black and coolie people? Dem put wata fountain fo quench we thirst in de hot midday sun.

Up to the early 1970s there was a marble water fountain in Donkey City south of Stabroek Market. I drank water there once.

Congrats!!

Next quiz.

Name the first East Indian who owned a business on the Strand, New Amsterdam and tell us how long that business lasted.

The Georgetown Cenotaph is a war memorial in Georgetown, Guyana, located at the junction of Main and Church Streets. The Cenotaph was unveiled on August 14, 1923, by the then Governor, Graeme Thomson, and the first Armistice Day observance took place at the Church Street Monument on 11 November 1923. On the four faces of the base of the Cenotaph are inscribed the four words - Devotion, Humanity, Fortitude, and Sacrifice. The Cenotaph is a national memorial to Guyanese soldiers who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars. Guyanese soldiers served and fought in such far off places as Egypt, France, Belgium, and East Africa. After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Armistice Day was renamed Remembrance Day or Remembrance Sunday, and observed on the first or second Sunday of November. Since 1956, it was internationally agreed to observe Remembrance Day on the second Sunday of November. Before 1923, the site where the Cenotaph now stands was occupied by an ornate drinking fountain which was erected in 1867 to mark the completion of the Water Works in 1866. That drinking fountain, no longer functional, now stands on the green opposite St. Rose's High School in Church Street, just a few hundred feet from its original location.

http://www.tripmondo.com/guyan...tions-in-georgetown/

Good morning

Alexander Saywack, a general provision merchant from 1865 - 1965.

I'm almost certain the Cenotaph was erected to honor Lord Kitchener and later acquired it's present symbolism.

Angali..answer seems correct.

1. Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

   Senior officer
2. Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener KG, KP, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCMG, GCIE, ADC, PC was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won fame for his imperial campaigns ... Wikipedia
3. Born: June 24, 1850, Ballylongford, Republic of Ireland
4. Died: June 5, 1916, HMS Hampshire
5. Education: Royal Military Academy, Woolwich

Correct!!

Later, a Saywack descendant built a store on Regent & Alexander Streets, Georgetown. In the 1980s when there were commodity shortages I used to buy my Brylcream from Saywack's.

Congrats!!

Yes Django, dat chap. The Cenotaph was originally erected to honor his victory over the Central Powers in the "Great War" (or as we now refer to it WW I)

Other prominent businesses in the 19th century on the Strand were James Lade, a General Store, and S. Wreford, founded by a Scotsman in 1860. It was a well stocked store and was passed on to his sons after his death, until nationalized by the state in 1973.
Alexander Saywack was a general provision merchant and the first East Indian business on the Strand, a business that lasted from 1865 to 1965. The premises were let to Duncan Dow, then S.G. Wiltshire, J.P. Santos, and Wieting and Richter. A gas station also operated on the premises.

http://www.indocaribbeanworld....ary_10_2007/arts.htm

Thanks Sir Gil

Thanks Django and congrats on your answer