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(14,989 posts)malaise
(276,854 posts)Happy New Year
quaint
(3,401 posts)Thank you
malaise
(276,854 posts)Last edited Sat Dec 30, 2023, 02:51 PM - Edit history (1)
who appears afraid to smile😀
erronis
(16,662 posts)Easterncedar
(3,126 posts)Poignant. Amazing. Thanks.
erronis
(16,662 posts)Maybe hasn't changed much since then....
malaise
(276,854 posts)TeamProg
(6,630 posts)malaise
(276,854 posts)😀
barbtries
(29,578 posts)thanks for sharing Malaise
DownriverDem
(6,554 posts)My brother & his wife go to Jamaica every January and spend 3 months there. My husband & I keep their car. They will love seeing this.
malaise
(276,854 posts)Hope they have a great time this year 😀
Leith
(7,851 posts)as they look now. For example, there was a church in one of the clips - it could still be there!
Thanks for posting this.
malaise
(276,854 posts)A friend suggests that it is the East Queens street Baptist church - one of the oldest churches on the island. It actually had the largest congregation in the world at one time.
Over 200 years old and post-emancipation challenge to the Anglicans.
Does look like Parade which would make that correct. Will still check with the pros.
Most of the downtown Kingston churches from 1929 are still here because those damaged or destroyed by the 1907 Kingston earthquake would have been rebuilt..
Kid Berwyn
(17,528 posts)Great footage, all. Seeing another world and time come alive brings a tear. Especially seeing the the people.
PS: The Royal Navy officers riding in the covered Carryall looked happy.
malaise
(276,854 posts)Up Park Camp is not far from Parade
Kid Berwyn
(17,528 posts)Just learned Up Park Camp was British Army HQ. Also discovered the facility holds the final resting places of veterans of World Wars I and II. We owe our freedom today to them.
History is fascinating. And it can help guide us to a better future.
malaise
(276,854 posts)and of course cricket matches. More than a few of our friends dads were in the British army in WW2