Misc

We stop at number of different tourist places as we wondered the island. Unfortunately I failed to take pictures of many of them. Several of the pictures in this folder where taken from the Gun Hill Signal which we came across while trying to find another place altogether. We went to the top of the tower to try to figure out where we where.

1). Springvale – Once a sugar plantation, now converted into an indigenous folk Museum this was a fascinating unexpected pleasure.

2). Sunbury Plantation House – The history of Sunbury Plantation House goes back over three hundred years to Matthew Chapman, an Irishman, one of the first settlers on the island. The estate was known as Chapman’s Plantation and is shown on several early maps of the island. After Matthews’s death in 1693, the plantation was sold to Nathaniel Branker, and the name was changed to Branker’s Plantation. It remained in the Branker Family for some 60 years until James Butler Harris bought it. After the death of Mr. Harris 14 years later, the estate was purchased by two brothers John Henry Barrow and George Barrow, who greatly enlarged the plantation and changed the name of the estate to Sunbury, the name of their home in England. In 1981 the house was separated from the sugar plantation and sold to Mr. and Mrs. Keith Melville of Barbados. The Melvilles, both keen horse lovers, started their horse drawn collection. What began as a hobby grew into a most comprehensive collection of antiques and artifacts of a bygone era. The Melvilles resided at Sunbury until 1985.

3). Gun Hill Signal

4). Chalky Mount Potteries

5). Tyrol Cot Heritage Village