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Designed by the local engineer J. W. Hoar, the Saint Helena Railway Company built a two-car inclined plane, 924 feet (281.6 m)-long, in 1829 to carry cargo between Jamestown and the fort. The cars rode on a pair of iron-plated fir rails, laid on wooden sleepers anchored into the rock of the valley wall, that were separated by a staircase of 700 ...
Shoulder patch of the RSHPS. The Royal Saint Helena Police Service, formerly the Saint Helena Police Service, is the local police force for the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, consisting of the South Atlantic islands of Saint Helena, Ascension and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.
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The East India Company later established two regular units to help defend the island, the St Helena Artillery and St Helena Infantry Regiments, drawn from non-local recruits. [4] As the East India Company garrison grew and more fortifications were constructed the militia declined in importance, by the early 1790s the militia numbered just 30-40 ...
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The Anglican Parish of St. James is one of the three parishes of the Diocese of St Helena on the island. St James' Church is the primary church in the parish and is the oldest Anglican Church in the southern hemisphere; the present building was put up in 1772. There are 3 daughter churches: St John's, in Upper Jamestown, St Mary's, the Briars ...
George, Barbara B. St Helena – the Chinese Connection ISBN 0-18-994892-2; Cross, Tony St Helena including Ascension Island and Tristan Da Cunha ISBN 0-7153-8075-3; Brooke, T. H., A History of the Island of St Helena from its Discovery by the Portuguese to the Year 1806, Printed for Black, Parry and Kingsbury, London, 1808
The Museum of Saint Helena is at the foot of Jacob's Ladder (in the background) The Museum of Saint Helena is a museum on the island of Saint Helena, a British Overseas Territory in the south Atlantic Ocean. It has an extensive collection covering the maritime, military and social history of the island over two floors.