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On Sir Simon's death the property would pass to his sister Anna Susannah (1781–1853), and her planter husband George Watson-Taylor (1770–1841), the fourth son of George Watson of Saul's River, Jamaica. [3] George later became the Liberal MP, for Devizes, England, and campaigner for the retention of slavery.
Harbour View was built in 1960, two years before the country's Independence in 1962. The community was the first in Jamaica to have a community paper and its residents claim that the community was the first to host street dances. [1] Harbour View is located in East Kingston and can be described as one of the best communities to live and raise ...
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Austhorpe Hall is a house built in 1694 at Austhorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II* listed building. [1] The house is of red brick with contrasting stone quoins, seven bays and three storeys, with a triangular pediment over the Baroque doorway. Pevsner describes it as "A remarkably early case of acceptance of the classical ...
Kingston is also home to Caricel, Jamaica's newest telecoms operator, which deployed its LTE network first to the Kingston Metropolitan Area. In addition, both carriers have their Jamaican head offices in the city (with the exception of Digicel, which has its company headquarters in Kingston rather than a regional office there as is the case ...
Norbrook is an upscale neighbourhood of the Kingston Metropolitan Area of Jamaica, with approximately 15,000 residents and is an important residential, shopping and commercial centre of the city itself. Norbrook is regarded as anywhere from the Immaculate Conception High School (in the South) to about 100m up "The Hill" (in the North).
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This is a list of plantation great houses in Jamaica.These houses were built in the 18th and 19th centuries when sugar cane made Jamaica the wealthiest colony in the West Indies. [1] Sugar plantations in the Caribbean were worked by enslaved African people [ 2 ] until the aboltion of slavery in 1833.