A new well-illustrated book on the several lives of a Jamaican family in Britain has just been published (Horsgate Books, £25.00). The Jippi-Jappa Hat Merchant and His Family tells of the arrival in 1919 of a prosperous Kingston merchant, with… Continue Reading
Passengers arriving at Montego Bay airport still step out of the plane and down an old-fashioned portable stairway before standing on the tarmac itself. Let’s hope these will never be replaced by the modern, air-conditioned tunnels of other airports. Otherwise… Continue Reading
Article from The Gleaner, 2010 Eighteen members of the Friends of the Georgian Society of Jamaica are spending two weeks touring a number of Jamaica’s historic buildings. The FGSJ is a UK-based group, affiliated to the Georgian Society of Jamaica,… Continue Reading
In 2000, the Society contributed £1,000 towards the repair of the roof of St Mary’s Church in Lucea, capital of the parish of Hanover. The church is 200 years old and has a number of interesting monuments including one to… Continue Reading
Morant Bay Court House, St. Thomas, second half of 18th c and the site of the tragic end to the Morant Bay Rebellion in 1865 The scene of the Morant Bay Rebellion of 1865, the Morant Bay Courthouse is one… Continue Reading
Iron Bridge, Spanish Town, St. Catherine, 1801, the earliest iron bridge in the Americas Built in 1801 from prefabricated cast iron sections imported from West Yorkshire, Spanish Town’s Iron Bridge was the first of its type to be erected outside… Continue Reading
St. Peter’s Church, Falmouth Trelawny, 1796 Completed in 1795 at a cost said to be as high as £10,000, this proud cutstone structure with its tall tower and stylish ‘Gothick’ window tracery was built on four adjoining lots of land… Continue Reading
Rio Bueno, a charming little town on the island’s North Coast, retains many of its cutstone Georgian buildings including (albeit somewhat decrepit) the Wellington tavern, a little hotel described by Monk Lewis in 1816 as “a very good inn”. Before… Continue Reading
Built some time after 1832, The Falmouth Post Office is one of the finest examples of a merchant house-store on Jamaica’s north coast. The FGSJ contributed some years ago to a restoration of this building in Market Street, since when… Continue Reading
FGSJ members and supporters were greatly saddened by news of Geoffrey Pinto’s death on 16 September 2016. FGSJ Chairman, Peregrine Bryant, notes that he was a remarkable man, whom he first met at the Vernacular Architecture Forum in Falmouth in… Continue Reading
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