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280 x 217 mm. A view showing a country house standing on a hillside among trees. Exact location unknown.

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316 x 217 mm. A view showing part of a cocao estate among wooded hilly land, with the estate manager's house in the foreground.

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317 x 243 mm. A view looking over hilly, wooded country, dotted here and there with houses. Annandale Estate, at this period having an acreage of 1150 acres and situated about 5 miles north-east of St George's, was the largest of the Grenadan estates and produced cocoa, spices and coffee.

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244 x 197 mm. A view showing the waterfall dropping among rocks and hanging vegetation with a man (in white pith helmet) and a woman posing for the photographer beside the falls.

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316 x 244 mm. A view looking along an unsurfaced road north of St George's with the bridge over the St John's River in the background. In the foreground, two Grenadians pose for the photographer beside their wagon and bullock team. The steep hill in the distance lies just north of St George's.

Scope and Contents The collection comprises twenty-three boxes of photographs and thirty boxes plus one file of negatives. The majority of photographs are of Heads of Government, meetings and other conferences held in the U.K; conferences leading to constitutional progress and, in most cases, independence, of individual countries; visitors from overseas including those training in the U.K; and organisations, exhibitions etc., in the U.K. relating to the Commonwealth. Most were taken by COI...

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316 x 220 mm. A view looking down from the town onto two steamers moored in the inland harbour, with houses in the background. The prison buildings can be seen on the far side of the harbour near the top of Richmond Hill.

Scope and Contents 317 x 223 mm. A finely detailed view looking over densely vegetated land, with mountains and the sea in the distance. This is presumably the main rebel camp at Morne Quaqua, near the Grand Etang north-east of St George's. The hill is now known as Morne Fédon after the rebel leader Julien Fédon. This rebellion, largely due to the racial tensions engendered by frequent changes of authority between the French and the English in the island, broke out in March 1795, when a body of rebels...

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153 x 155 mm. Mr. J. Husbands and Mr. E. Gairy of the Grenada Delegation to the East Caribbean Federation Conference in London, pictured at the conference’s opening session at Marlborough House, London.

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310 x 223 mm. A fine view showing Grenadians washing clothes in an unidentified river. An unsurfaced road runs alongside the stream, with a few huts in the background.

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Letters and papers concerning Grenada written by Robert Melville and others and an edition of 'Royal Commonwealth Society Library notes' concerning Melville and this collection.

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281 x 211 mm. A view showing the working premises and residential houses on the Dongaldstone Estate (exact location and size unknown). At the right of the photograph the cocoa drying-racks can be seen.

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281 x 216 mm. A view showing the cocoa drying racks on a Grenada estate. A group of women pose in front of the racks while workers can be seen spreading the beans uniformly. After the pods are picked the beans are 'sweated' in boxes for several days to remove the surrounding pulp. They are then placed on these racks for sun-drying before being packed and transported.

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317 x 208 mm. A view showing a small settlement in a valley with lushly vegetated hills on either side. In the distance the sea can be seen, with the entrance to St George's obscured behind a hill.

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316 x 219 mm. A view looking down from the hills above the town towards the promontory on which stands Fort St George, and beyond it the narrow entrance to the inland harbour with the Quarantine Station and Point Saline in the distance.

Scope and Contents Arranged by area, then by country (including a few which are not members of the Commonwealth):The Mediterranean 30Cyprus 11Gibraltar 3Malta 16Middle East 3Jordan 1Palestine 2Indian Sub-Continent 81General 1Bangladesh 4Bhutan 2India 51Nepal 1Pakistan 16Sri Lanka 6South East Asia 58Brunei 5Indonesia 1Malaysia 43Singapore 9East Asia 33China 3Hong Kong 29Korea ...

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315 x 220 mm. Another view of Gouyave, or Charlotte Town, showing the houses on the water front and the 'fine jetty' mentioned in Drayton (1896), p.66.

Scope and Contents 317 x 217 mm. A view looking down on Charlotte Town, with the sea beyond : 'Charlotte Town or Gouyave (population in 1891, 2 225) is built on the shore of an open roadstead on the west coast of the island, about twelve miles to the north of St George's by road. There is a fine jetty, with a commodius block of public buildings at its shore end (!), two churches, a telephone exchange, and a water supply, which, however, is not in full working order at the present time, but extensive repairs...

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Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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Contains slides in Ektachrome or Kodachrome mounts as indicated. The Ektachromes were processed in the USA. Slides have been renumbered but arrangement in the file remains as per the original typescript catalogue.

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318 x 216 mm. A view looking across the garden and drive towards Government House, in front of which stands a landau with a uniformed driver. This new, brick built Government House was commenced while the previous Governor, Sir Walter Sendall, was away from the island in 1886, the year after Grenada became the headquarters for the Windward Islands administration. The figure standing on the steps leading up to the house is probably Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson.

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319 x 215 mm. A view looking up the shaded drive towards the front entrance of Government House. Standing in the drive in the foreground is the Governor of the Windward Islands, Sir Walter Hely-Hutchinson (1849-1913), who assumed the post from November 1889 until 1893. He later spent nine years as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Cape Colony.

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240 x 188 mm. A view showing the large circular lake, of volcanic origin, situated in the centre of Grenada, among hills and woods. The building just visible beyond and to the left of the lake is probably the Government rest-house.

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Extract from Gentleman’s Magazine, 1762.