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Memories from Guyana, South America by Anonymous
As a young girl I remember the days when I would come home from school, have a snack to eat, then join a team of family members in making concrete blocks which would subsequently be used to build a home for our family in the housing scheme as it was called in those days. We would fill the mold with concrete mixture, let it set until it was hard enough to be turned out, then put to dry. We did this for many weeks until there were enough blocks to start the foundation. It was quite an experience.
My Belmont in the 1940s by Ian Lambie
I spent my first twenty-three years resident in Belmont with my parents and siblings before relocating to Woodbrook in 1956. Nevertheless, today, more than fifty-seven years later, I still have a special affinity for Belmont.
Belmont has always been a residential area with the majority of residents being middle income Public Servants, office and store clerks and low income blue collar workers, with a smattering of upper middle income households in the north of Belmont. It was only in the 1940s that running water, water closets and wash basins were installed in new houses with the Main House, kitchen and occasionally laundry room being built on the same level.
Up to that time the majority of houses were mainly wooden structures with a Main House on pillars and a detached kitchen at ground level. Many fireplaces were wood burning while some persons used coal-pots for cooking and baking. Kerosene stoves first appeared in the 1940s and cooking with electricity and LPG was introduced much later. Household refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and kitchen electrical appliances had not yet arrived. Tap water was not available in the Main House and the shower was often a galvanise enclosed cubicle in the backyard. There were no water closets. The facility was a pit latrine located some distance from the other buildings and there was no toilet paper. In some living rooms hung a photograph of the Sacred Heart, Pope Pius XII, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and occasionally of Learie Constantine....Read more.
We are the Wright's Family by Eva Wright
We are a family of nine. We were born and grown on Carib Street in San Fernando, Trinidad W. I.
Our parents' names were Mr. & Mrs. Newallo John Wright, our mothers' name was Muriel Sylvia Wright (née ) Pitt. They are both deceased. Daddy was a very, very, proud man and respected by all. Also envied by some. Our mother was loved by everybody she was also respected very much as well. Our eldest brother, whose name was Neil, died of a ruptured spleen. Daddy told us that,... Read more.
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Memories from Guyana, South America by Anonymous
As a young girl I remember the days when I would come home from school, have a snack to eat, then join a team of family members in making concrete blocks which would subsequently be used to build a home for our family in the housing scheme as it was called in those days. We would fill the mold with concrete mixture, let it set until it was hard enough to be turned out, then put to dry. We did this for many weeks until there were enough blocks to start the foundation. It was quite an experience.
My Belmont in the 1940s by Ian Lambie
I spent my first twenty-three years resident in Belmont with my parents and siblings before relocating to Woodbrook in 1956. Nevertheless, today, more than fifty-seven years later, I still have a special affinity for Belmont.
Belmont has always been a residential area with the majority of residents being middle income Public Servants, office and store clerks and low income blue collar workers, with a smattering of upper middle income households in the north of Belmont. It was only in the 1940s that running water, water closets and wash basins were installed in new houses with the Main House, kitchen and occasionally laundry room being built on the same level.
Up to that time the majority of houses were mainly wooden structures with a Main House on pillars and a detached kitchen at ground level. Many fireplaces were wood burning while some persons used coal-pots for cooking and baking. Kerosene stoves first appeared in the 1940s and cooking with electricity and LPG was introduced much later. Household refrigerators, washing machines, vacuum cleaners and kitchen electrical appliances had not yet arrived. Tap water was not available in the Main House and the shower was often a galvanise enclosed cubicle in the backyard. There were no water closets. The facility was a pit latrine located some distance from the other buildings and there was no toilet paper. In some living rooms hung a photograph of the Sacred Heart, Pope Pius XII, Jesse Owens, Joe Louis, Haile Selassie and occasionally of Learie Constantine....Read more.
We are the Wright's Family by Eva Wright
We are a family of nine. We were born and grown on Carib Street in San Fernando, Trinidad W. I.
Our parents' names were Mr. & Mrs. Newallo John Wright, our mothers' name was Muriel Sylvia Wright (née ) Pitt. They are both deceased. Daddy was a very, very, proud man and respected by all. Also envied by some. Our mother was loved by everybody she was also respected very much as well. Our eldest brother, whose name was Neil, died of a ruptured spleen. Daddy told us that,... Read more.
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