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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 19 th & 20 th 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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