Bygone Barbados

My aim in this book is to share these old photographs and a piece of our past with other Barbadians and visitors to the island. In so doing, a small and simple piece of social history has emerged.

My own collection of photographs, made during my employment over many years in the rare stamp department of the philatelist, Stanley Gibbons, in London, together with pictures from the private collections of Dr. Karl Watson, Mr. Bill Ferguson and Mr. Peter Allard, form the nucleus of this book. We have used pictures from other sources, the ones which have been on loan to us have been listed in my acknowledgements.

The photographs illustrated in the book range from the earliest known photographs on the island, from 1860 up to roughly, the end of the First World War, and in a few cases a little later, to complete the story. To simplify matters further, 1 have attempted to make each page stand on its own with a description of the picture above; however if the book is read in its entirety, a brief history of the island will emerge.

Ann Watson Yates,
Barbados 1998

Bygone Barbados

162 Pages
Published by Blackbird Studios
ISBN 976-8077-64-6

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