Indies Gallery

The carnival in the port of Spain, Trinidad

The carnival in the port of Spain, Trinidad, 1888. People cavort in fancy dress through the street, some playing banjos, others brandishing what looks like bladders on sticks. Rather more conservatively dressed people watch from the pavement and from balconies above street level. Date: 1888

© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans

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West Indies Cricket Team - 1957 Tour - Signatures

The West Indies Cricket Team - Tour of England 1957. Featured are the brilliant (Sir) Garfield (Gary) Sobers, Frank Worrell, Everton Weekes, (Sir) Wesley Winfield Hall and Sonny Ramadhin. The signatures of all the players can be found on the reverse (see 10644613). Date: 1957

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Jamaica - Panorama of Mandeville

Slide showing a photograph over looking the city of Mandeville. Mandeville is the capital and largest town in the parish of Manchester in the county of Middlesex, Jamaica.. Part of Box 108. Boswell Collection. Slide number 42. Jamaica, officially the Commonwealth of Jamaica, is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, situated in the Caribbean Sea. Jamaica is south of Cuba and west of Hispaniola, the island containing the nation-states of Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the West Indies. Date: circa 1932

© The Boswell Collection, Bexley Heritage Trust / Mary Evans