![]() She worked in a hospital, don’t know which one. I think her address (then) was 63 Hatfield Street, Lodge, Georgetown, British Guiana. The lady’s name is or was Helen King – also used the first name,’Yvonne’. My name is Art Palmer (email: I have no direct information, am merely wondering about a friend I met in Georgetown in 1963. > Athena Astria Stanley commented: “Hello Mr hello Mr Clinton, my father was > Fitzroy Imlack Stanley he worked at Sprostons in Wismar as Manager in the > year 1955 I think I was not born as yet when he was transferred there we > lived across from the whraf in the Managers house. On Sun, at 14:01, Guyana Then And Now wrote: This smelter was inaugurated as a site of ALCOA the Aluminium Corporation of America at East St Louis but anti-trust legislation forced its transfer to new ownership under ALCAN the Aluminium Corporation of Canada. A ciné film of the launch can be found on the interactive website of Pathé Pictorial for 1926 and bauxite mining started in 1920 with extraction of 1 millon tons of the ore, which was latterly shipped to the Smelter at Port Alfred now called La Baie off the St Lawrence River in Canada. The R H Carr started life on paper as the SS Potaro and the name was changed at the untimely death of Ralph Hamilton Carr in 1926. A gentleman whose wife was a teenage daughter Pauline of an engineer on the installations at MacKenzie made a trip to the Demerara River to complete my research on the steamship converted to twin diesel engines at Sprostons in 1951. Responding to Mr R H Carr’s granddaughter, I have enjoyed being drawn into the history of Guyana/BG and the R H Carr, built on the River Dee at Saltney near Chester. I well remember Fogartys one of the few stores in BG that carried exotic goods, at least they were exotic to us.)Ĭomment by Elizabeth Garrett - Ap 10:32 pm He did move to England and his wife was killed in a car crash so we must be on the same wavelength. One of my Uncles in Georgetown was a dentist, we always referred to him as uncle Lesly, so I never knew if his last name was Wong, but you never know. I’m blaming my ISP, we’re on a radio link that is not too reliable. I’ve been very tardy with my email lately. It’s great to meet more BG folk like you. ![]() Thank you for the photos and bringing back childhood memories. My parent’s knew them well if this was your uncle and aunt. I seem to remember that our dentist’s name was Wong and that he later emigrated to England and his wife,was killed in a car accident. My father, John Brenan, was an accountant at Fogartys Dept store, until we left for Canada in 1953.
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