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Welcome to a time capsule of your Motherland 19 th & 20 th centuries British Guiana/Guyana

Welcome to a time capsule of your Motherland 19 th & 20 th centuries British Guiana/Guyana. Agricultural Hall and Post Office as it was circa 1870s. The 1945 fire which consumed Bookers Drug Store. The Fire also consumed the Assembly Rooms ( 1945 ). Bandstand Seawall 1954.

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Welcome to a time capsule of your Motherland 19 th & 20 th centuries British Guiana/Guyana

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  1. Welcome to a time capsule of your Motherland 19th & 20th centuries British Guiana/Guyana

  2. Agricultural Hall and Post Office as it was circa 1870s

  3. The 1945 fire which consumed Bookers Drug Store

  4. The Fire also consumed the Assembly Rooms ( 1945 )

  5. Bandstand Seawall 1954

  6. Beckwiths Hotel and Assembly Rooms 1870

  7. Bishops High School

  8. In centre is the drinking fountain by Booker's Drug Store; now the War Memorial and Carnegie Building

  9. Cricket Club Bourda

  10. The Cricket Grounds, later became the Parade Ground

  11. Activity on Main Street near the Daily Chronicle Building; early 1950s

  12. Eve Leary Garrison Barracks

  13. Fire Brigade Station ca. 1922

  14. Fort and Lighthouse engraving

  15. Government House in the late 1800s or early 1900s

  16. Hand in Hand, Tower Hotel, Post office and Assembly Rooms

  17. Hand in Hand Insurance, circa 1905

  18. Lamaha Canal 1870

  19. Lamaha Canal under construction

  20. Legislative Session 1950s

  21. Lighthouse built in 1830

  22. Christ Church lies just behind the Parade Grounds used by the militia, circa 1850

  23. Promenade Gardens and Cricket Ground 1870

  24. Former Public Buildings completed 1834; now Parliament Building

  25. Public Buildings Ceremony

  26. Queen’s College Grammar School

  27. Queen’s College Thomas Lands 1951

  28. Railway Station circa 1885, was scrapped in 1971

  29. Railway Yards, Georgetown

  30. At the Seawall, looking East, circa 1900s

  31. At the Seawall, looking west; note the Round House

  32. Event near the Seawall, circa 1890s

  33. Stabroek Market 1881

  34. Tower Hotel on Main Street, 1930s

  35. The early Tower Hotel which later became the Post Office

  36. The centre of town as it was in the 1950s

  37. An early photo of the view from the lighthouse

  38. View from Lighthouse (another)

  39. The End ! Hope you did enjoy this historical tour of your Motherland

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