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E-man · « **on:** February 11, 2012, 01:07:07 PM »

Maracas beach, 1965

truetrini · « **Reply #1 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:01:09 PM »

truetrini · « **Reply #2 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:01:33 PM »

truetrini · « **Reply #3 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:02:06 PM »

Original Masqueraders....Taken 1896

truetrini · « **Reply #4 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:04:03 PM »

Abbatoir South Quay POS....Men with a little money to spend used to lime here.

truetrini · « **Reply #5 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:04:19 PM »

Belmont to POS Tram

truetrini · « **Reply #6 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:05:15 PM »

Buses replacing Trams and providing more routes.

truetrini · « **Reply #7 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:05:47 PM »

Cocorite tram

truetrini · « **Reply #8 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:06:40 PM »

Port of Spain, Frederick and what is now Brian Lara Promenade

truetrini · « **Reply #9 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:08:21 PM »

Another Tram car. These trams also ran on the inside railings of the Queens Park Savannah! The signs on the railings used to say: "No Monkeying around."

truetrini · « **Reply #10 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:09:15 PM »

Indians drying cocoa in the sun

truetrini · « **Reply #11 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:10:19 PM »

Leper in Port of Spain. This was taken in 1903, BEFORE the Leper Colony was set up a few years later.

truetrini · « **Reply #12 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:11:05 PM »

Soldiers returning home from fighting for Great Britain

truetrini · « **Reply #13 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:11:36 PM »

Royal Bank Port of Spain

truetrini · « **Reply #14 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:14:36 PM »

The remains of the Red House that was gutted by fire during the Water Riots of 1903.

Water Riots occurred because there was insufficient pipe borne water. After a cholera outbreak that decimated POS and environs. It was estimated that at the height of the cholera outbreak as many as 40 dead were buried daily. This out break was particularly hard on Indians as they lived in squalid barracks.

(More on the Water Riots and the Cholera Outbreak in separate threads coming soon!)

truetrini · « **Reply #15 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:15:08 PM »

Port of Spain Docks...Schooners in port

truetrini · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:16:16 PM »

Know that diving Platform in Macqueripe? Well it came from this Hotel, the Macqueripe Hotel

truetrini · « **Reply #17 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:16:50 PM »

There were also Bath Houses at Macqueripe....

truetrini · « **Reply #18 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:17:41 PM »

Scarlet Ibises Caroni Bird Sanctuary

truetrini · « **Reply #19 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:18:16 PM »

No caption needed

truetrini · « **Reply #20 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:19:09 PM »

Harts Cut Bay Chaguaramas. Site of a present day T&T Coast Guard Base

truetrini · « **Reply #21 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:20:20 PM »

There used to be an abundance of these large Centipedes in Trinidad

Bakes · « **Reply #22 on:** February 11, 2012, 05:42:49 PM »

TT yuh well liking yuhself... nice job

truetrini · « **Reply #23 on:** February 11, 2012, 09:33:05 PM »

Bakes, yuh done know. Is history.

Daft Trini · « **Reply #24 on:** February 15, 2012, 11:49:35 AM »

Quote from: truetrini SC on February 11, 2012, 05:16:16 PM

Know that diving Platform in Macqueripe? Well it came from this Hotel, the Macqueripe Hotel

WOW, I use to dive dey as ah kid, my dad would play golf at chag and leave us at de beach, was always curious as to why it had dem platforms dey!. This is good stuff TC!

truetrini · « **Reply #25 on:** February 15, 2012, 08:22:17 PM »

truetrini · « **Reply #26 on:** February 23, 2012, 05:54:46 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfdyLtjgFL8