Rare footage of Jamaica and Jamaicans 1929

[malaise]

[Callalily]

1. Wow! Thanks for sharing.

[malaise]

2. You're welcome

Happy New Year

[quaint]

3. So cool! Beautiful people. Cars, horses, pushcarts sharing the road.

Thank you

[malaise]

5. Love the young woman with the lovely smile

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who appears afraid to smile😀

[erronis]

6. Agree. And her smile is wonderful.

[Easterncedar]

4. Lost world

Poignant. Amazing. Thanks.

[erronis]

7. Definitely needed to be nimble on the streets!

Maybe hasn't changed much since then....

[malaise]

16. Gotten worse

[TeamProg]

8. Interesting, thanks. Home to one of the best rhythm sections ever, Sly & Robbie. nt

[malaise]

12. Agree re Sly & Robbie

😀

[barbtries]

9. that's a treasure.

thanks for sharing Malaise

[DownriverDem]

10. Thanks!

My brother & his wife go to Jamaica every January and spend 3 months there. My husband & I keep their car. They will love seeing this.

[malaise]

14. They are our regular winter visitors

Hope they have a great time this year 😀

[Leith]

11. It would be fun to see some of those streets

as they look now. For example, there was a church in one of the clips - it could still be there!

Thanks for posting this.

[malaise]

15. Will ask one of the experts

A friend suggests that it is the East Queen’s street Baptist church - one of the oldest churches on the island. It actually had the largest congregation in the world at one time.
Over 200 years old and post-emancipation challenge to the Anglicans.

Does look like Parade which would make that correct. Will still check with the pros.

Most of the downtown Kingston churches from 1929 are still here because those damaged or destroyed by the 1907 Kingston earthquake would have been rebuilt..

[Kid Berwyn]

13. Like being there, almost a century ago!

Great footage, all. Seeing another world and time come alive brings a tear. Especially seeing the the people.

PS: The Royal Navy officers riding in the covered Carryall looked happy.

[malaise]

17. They would have been happy campers in the sunshine

Up Park Camp is not far from Parade

[Kid Berwyn]

21. Thank you for the heads-up.

Just learned Up Park Camp was British Army HQ. Also discovered the facility holds the final resting places of veterans of World Wars I and II. We owe our freedom today to them.

History is fascinating. And it can help guide us to a better future.

[malaise]

22. Been to funerals at Camp

and of course cricket matches. More than a few of our friends’ dad’s were in the British army in WW2

[malaise]

20. Kingston history

[iluvtennis]

18. So nice to see video footage of days gone by - many thanks for sharing. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

19. OT: Why are so many films of this era overcranked on playback?