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Gun Hill Signal Station. Coordinates: 13.1432°N 59.5574°W. Entrance to Gun Hill Signal Station. Gun Hill Signal Station, St. George is the largest and most important of the military outposts in Barbados, with military associations from at least 1697. In the Militia Act of that year, when it was known as Briggs Hill, it was named as one of the ...
Built in 1715 by John Whetstone, by 1817 the owner was Joseph Lowe, in 1844 James Holder Alleyne and then by 1913 the owner was still Alleyne Haggatts St. Andrew 506 By 1913 the owner was Hutson Hill St. Andrew 150 By 1913 the owner was Hutson Hopewell St. Andrew 62 By 1913 the owner was Haynes Lakes St. Andrew 1817 owned by Elizabeth S. Vaughan
The Supreme Court of Barbados The Supreme Court is located in a five-storey reinforced concrete structure of 183,000 square feet (17,000 m 2 ) which includes both civil and criminal courts, together with office accommodation and facilities for judges, juries, attorneys, prisoners, and the public, as well as the Registry and Records offices.
The Barbados Railway was a 38.6-kilometre (24.0 mi)-long narrow-gauge railway on Barbados with a gauge of initially 1,067 mm (3 feet 6 inch) and later 762 mm (2 feet 6 inch). [2] It had 98 bridges, very tight radii and a steep incline. [2] It was used from 1883 to 1937, after it had gone several times through financial difficulties.
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Alleyne baronets. The Alleyne Baronetcy, of Four Hills in Barbados, is a title in the Baronetage of Great Britain. It was created on 6 April 1769 for John Alleyne, Speaker of the Barbados House of Assembly. His grandson, the third Baronet, was President of the Steel and Iron Institute. [citation needed] The family surname is pronounced "Alleen ...
St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway. A passenger train ascending the incline to Cherry Tree Hill. St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway (SNAHR) is a 1.5 kilometres (0.9 mi) long heritage narrow gauge railway with a 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm) gauge, in the parish of Saint Peter on the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados. [2]
Alleyne was born in Barbados on 15 October 1836, the daughter of Charles Thomas Alleyne and Margaret Frances Bruce. Her younger sister was Leonora Blanche Alleyne . [2] Charles Alleyne was a plantation owner in Barbados, and the family's substantial wealth was built on the labour of enslaved people.