Betty’s Hope Details Part 2
- Click on the image to enlarge or purchase - In the last post we started to look at some of the details of the Betty’s Hope windmills. (click here to learn more about life on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation). We left that post with a view of the entrance into the windmill to where the mechanism for grinding the sugar cane can be found. As we see in the image above, this appears to be in very good condition and, if there were full sails on the vanes of the windmill, would probably work. The vanes, though, now consist of just the main strut with no ability to move with the...
Read MoreBetty’s Hope Details Part 1
- Click on the image to enlarge or purchase - Betty’s Hope, which we looked at in February last year, was the largest sugar plantation in Antigua (click here to learn more about life on a Caribbean Sugar Plantation). It is somewhere I like to try to visit each time we are on the island. My images from each visit, though, had begun to become somewhat similar and I was wondering if it was really worth returning to. As luck would have it, inspiration was just around the corner. On one of our island tours we stopped at a new restaurant. While my wife checked out the menu I took a...
Read MoreGilbert Memorial Methodist Chapel, Zion Hill, Antigua
- Click on the image to enlarge or purchase - The Historic Gilbert Memorial Methodist Chapel, which is located at Zion Hill, was named in honour of Nathaniel Gilbert who, in 1760, introduced Methodism in Antigua, the first place to receive Methodism outside of England. Gilbert preached to his slaves on his estate, a location not too far from the present site of the Gilbert Memorial Chapel. Historical records bear out that Zion Hill was always a very thriving community. Given its proximity to the Gilbert’s Estate, and the fact that there was never a chapel on the Gilbert’s Estate, it...
Read MoreNelson’s Dockyard, English Harbour, Antigua (Part 4)
This is the final part of our tour of Nelson’s Dockyard at English Harbour in Antigua (Part 1 can be seen here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here). - Click on the image to enlarge or purchase - During the nineteenth century, with the advent of steam-powered ships, which needed less attention than their sailed counterparts, and coinciding with a decline in British interest in the region, the dockyard slowly fell into disuse, finally closing in 1889. Over the next 60 years the various buildings took a battering from hurricanes and earthquakes, until in the 1950s there began a major...
Read MoreNelson’s Dockyard, English Harbour, Antigua (Part 3)
- Click on the image to enlarge or purchase - Continuing our tour of Nelson’s Dockyard at English Harbour in Antigua (Part 1 can be seen here and Part 2 here), we visit first the Copper and Lumber Store. Like many of the buildings in the restored dockyard, the Copper and Lumber Store now has a commercial use servicing both the tourists and those who use the marina that now occupies the harbour. The Copper and Lumber Store is now an elegant hotel and restaurant. The Mainbrace Pub, in the top image and on the right below) is a good place to eat when touring the dockyard. - ...
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