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TravelersInsights...World Heritage Barbados Volume 1, Issue1


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Table o Contents

Historic Bridgetown 1-2

Unique Architecture 3-6

African & British Heritage 7-8

Cultural Heritage 9-10Landmarks 13-14

Disctinctively Charming 15-20

Back page - Contacts

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Fountain in Former Trafalgar Square, now Heroes Square

In the centre of Bridgetown,Barbados, close to the historic

bridge built originally by theAmerindians, stands

a statue of Lord Nelson.It predates the statue of the man in

Trafalgar Square in London. TheBritish elite living in Barbados at thetime of Nelsons defeat of the French

claimed that Nelson had preservedthe West Indies from being captured

by the French and erected the statuein his honour. The statue stands as a

testimony to British ceremony, to itsarchitecture, and its old world heritage.

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Bridgetown,

Barbados

The Careenage


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BHistoric Bridgetown & its Garrison

a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Public Library

War Memorial, Heroes SquarePAGE TWO

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Admiral NelsonThe Barbados

statue predatesthe statue of Lord

Horatio Nelson inLondon, Britain byapproximately

thirty years.

Garrison

Historic Area

HHistoric Bridgetown and itsGarrison in Barbados is designated as

a UNESCO World Heritage Site as;an outstanding example of British

colonial architecture consisting of awell-preserved old town built in the17th, 18th and 19th centuries


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ArchitectureA unique Architecture...

Clock tower

Bridgetown

Victorian house in Belleville, outskirts of BridgetownParliament


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The Nelson Statueis an interestingrecognition and one that sits uneasily

with some Barbadians, rememberingthat it was the African slaves and theirdescendants who built the wealth of

the British plantation class, and thatNelson was a hard supporter of the

dreadful trade in slavery. The squarewhere Nelson stands, once named

Trafalgar Square, was renamedHeroes Square to commemorate thehuman heritage of the island and

celebrate its African past as muchas its British roots. The UNESCO

recognition of Historic Bridgetown and its

Garrison also includes a nearby militarygarrison which consists of numeroushistoric buildings. Its serpentine urbanlay-out, testies to a different approach to

colonial town planning compared to theSpanish and Dutch colonial cities of the

region which were built along a grid plan.

HA unique ArchitectureBridgetowns architecture, says the

UNESCO announcement, consists of awell-preserved old town built in the 17th,

18th and 19th centuries, which testiesto the spread of Great Britains Atlantic

colonial empire.

St. Nicholas Abbey - Jacobean architecture Barbados Museum

Queens Park Theatre

Bas relief of Queen Victoria on Queens

Park Gallery Facade

Barracks of the Defence Force

Gazebo at Queens Park

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ArchitectureA unique Architecture

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Mutual

Building,

Bridgetown

Barracks of the Barbados Defence

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Queens Park

Pavilion Court

Needhams Point

The Old Spirit Bond

Barracks of the Defence Force

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www.Barbados.org

HBridgetown participatednot only in the international

trade of goods and enslaved

persons but also in thetransmission of ideas and

cultures that characterized

the developing colonial

enterprise in theAtlantic World.... UNESCO
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HeritageAfrican & British Heritage

Barbados indeed has arich African and British

heritage. Yet, we must notforget there are memoriesand traces of an even longer

past with relics of the Cariband Amerindian settlements

throughout the land. Much ispreserved in museums by the

Garrison Savannah. Someof the old buildings in thearea date back 300 years.

Barbados also has two of

the only three survivingJacobean homes. It is

replete with originalGeorgian and Pavilionarchitecture and stately

plantations. It has one ofthe oldest synagogues in

the western hemisphere.

The history of thesynagogue started with theDutch Jewish refugees

eeing Brazil during theinquisition. Some stopped

in Barbados en route toHolland. They arrived just

a year after the Englishsettlement of Barbados

in 1627.

Remains of a slave hut

Transporting sugar products in spiders

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HPlying their wares on the waterfront

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HBy the 17th century,the fortied port townwas able to establishits importance in the

British Atlantic tradeand became an entreptfor goods, especially sugar,and enslaved persons

destined for Barbadosand the rest of

the Americas.... UNESCO

Bridgetown: Centerof Atlantic Trade in

17th century


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HeritageCultural Heritage

Public worship for Jewishpeople living in Barbados

came in 1654, three years

before England allowed it.In many respects Barbadoswas ahead of the UK open

mindedness.

Bridgetownillustrates the

interchange of

several occupational,

religious, ethnic,

free and enslaved

groups; a meeting

of cultures, which

created a hybridized

Creole culture in

the Anglophone

Caribbean

Jewish synagogue - oldest in the Western hemisphere

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HA MixedCultural HeritageBreeds Exceptional

People

The Dutch Jewish refugees

brought with them skills andknowledge of cane and

sugar production. Soon,Barbados thrived on thetrade of sugar and rum,

owing much to the Dutchengineers and the African

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HeritageLandmarks

The Barbados Museum

The Museum is housed

in the former British MilitaryPrison, which was built in

1817.

Mutual Building

This building dates

from 1895. Features

include classicVictorianarchitecture, largedomes and an

impressive ornatecast iron veranda.

Landmarks include:

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George WashingtonHouse

An excellent example of

Georgian architecture.George Washington

stayed here in 1751; ...Barbados was the only

place he visited outsideof America.


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St. Anns Fort

The Main Guard, Garrison

Military Cemetary

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HHistoric Bridgetown and its Garrison areastretch from the old town hall in the North West

to St. Anns Fort in the South.
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With a lineage of wiseleadership and an educated,

articulate workforce,Barbados has not lost its

natural touch and you willnd the people happy, friendly

and charming.

On one hand the island is

elegant and sophisticatedwith some of the best

restaurants and some ofthe most distinctive hotels

in the world.

On the other hand it is

accessible with affordableguest houses and B&Bs,

and charming people.Barbados is distinctively

charming, colourfuland fun.

fromluxury to

local charm

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HThe RealHeritage of

Barbados

is its

People

DistinctivelyCharming


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Swim with theBarbados

We dont know

if this photo is

technically

correct. It seems

to show two

turtles kissing.

Can that be true?

Kissing Turtles

The turtles are having a ball and seemto love all the attention and the frolicwith swimmers on this catamaran sail

and party cruise.

So here are the facts that we know

on turtles romance. Female turtlesmate every two to four years. Males

can mate every year. So you haveto wait up to 4 years for a mate as a

female, but we suppose kissing canbe anytime!

The Lost YearsAfter hatching and instinctively

crawling into the sea, the juvenile

turtles spend up to ve years in the

open ocean. They are rarely seen asthey live for several years in the deep,pelagic waters. Imagine these tiny

little creatures fending all for them-selves in the ocean way off the shore.

How brave they must be. They getcarried on tides and often end up in

the gulf stream, hitching a ride on theoating nursery of the Sargasso

sea. A cycle of oating Sargassumseaweed that circulates clockwisearound the north atlantic, providing a

refuge for small turtles. At this stagethe turtles are carnivorous, feeeding

on the bite-sized, oating prey.Scientist refer to this stage as the

The Lost Years as little is known.

Young Turtles take from twenty to ftyyears to reach sexual maturity and

can live up to eighty years in the wild.Only 1% of hatchlings reach maturity.

Mature Adult Turtles 25 Years & OverMature turtles spend most of theirtime in shallow, coastal waters with

lush sea grass beds. Adults frequentinshore bays, lagoons and shoals with

lush seagrass meadows. Entire gen-erations often migrate between one

pair of feeding and nesting areas.

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www.Barbados.orgdistinctively charming
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Amongst his many talents, David is an

artisan who you will see at Accra beach.He sells beaded bracelets and costume

jewelry which he and local artisans

make. He is married to Darla Trotman, anextraordinary artist, who paints with such

realism that you have to study to seethat it is not a picture. But when you look

closely you will see her distinctive touch.

I did not know all this when I

approached David at Accra andasked if I could video him for our

website. Within a few moments itwas clear that I was talking to a

different sort of beach vendor. Hewas reading Og, How to be a bettersalesman. I had recently read a book

by Og, about an angel, and liked it. Wetalked of the philosophy behind his

writing. You know, sometimes we justdont know how good things are, we

just keep going, then one day you lookaround and are amazed by how much

you have. David said. I thought he wastalking of his table of beads and the mag-nicent beach. In fact he was, but al

so of his restaurant and guest houseand so much else. So why do you do

this I asked? I like it, he told me, I likebeing with people, I love this beach and

I meet all sort of good people here.David watched a young girl walk past and

caught her eye. Hey, he says, dontrush off Miss, come here, this man got a

movie camera. Come, come, I will makeyou a movie star. Before I could say

camera action, he had us organised, thegirl slightly bewildered and unsure whileI videotaped. Davids light touch put her

at ease and soon she was laughing with

him. No way, she says, You cantbuild a star without props. You need

action. Where are the coconut and thediamonds? Done says David,

I see you are already got theattitude of a star. OK madam.

Coconut man come cut a coconutfor the star. Here let me put the royalbeads pun you. Yes thats better,

Perhaps we should dance. Bring onthe band,

hear that music, you like it?, Shesmiled at his sense of fun, for there

was no music and the coconut manwas a long way off, but the beads hegave her were real. Yes that smile

is going to knock them dead, yes,already a star, with attitude. We

laughed easily at his charm. Verygood, he says, rehearsals tomorrow.

Then the Oscar.

David is the star. I no longermarvel at his success. I will look atevery beach vendor and wonder at

the entrepreneurial spirit behind thatsimple act. And wonder too how

un-simple it is for people of littlemeans to make a living this way, it

takes talent, drive and characterto do this work well.

Ian R Clayton

DistinctivelyCharming

BeachCulture....

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AUTHOR

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