It received lavish praise from the New York Times. But the play did not find a receptive audience and closed shortly after its Broadway premiere. The buyer was a New Yorker, who wanted to make the place his Winter residence. He eventually drifted to New York City around , finding work at another advertising agency where the one-time lord and monarch of his private island earned just a fraction of his former income.
Also Gate's and Yates. One of the six principal islands. The increased workload at HMS Malabar caused problems due to the limited space available. With so many of the locally-based or in-transit Royal Navy warships carrying catapult-launched seaplanes such as the Hawker Osprey, Fairey Seafox and Supermarine Walrus seaplanes, the need for prompt, efficient and spacious aircraft maintenance was a high priority.
Thus, the new station was built. It had two good-size hangers and launching ramps on either side of the island and they allowed continuous operation in any wind direction. With the Battle of the Atlantic over, the station was reduced to care and maintenance status in Some remnants still survive. The ferry service to and from here finally ceased in May The nearest surviving one is Watford Bridge. Bus routes 7 Dockyard and 8 stop in the immediate area. August And as a consequence, we have a severe leakage problem.
Whereas we buy all of our water from Government via Wedco, we are buying twice as much as we are using. And he added that a contractor was preparing estimates to fix the lighting, starting with the worst-affected areas.
Mr Groves, who has lived on Boaz Island for about 17 years, said some of the problems were the result of how the village was built and others were down to a lack of proper maintenance. Whereas before we could just paper over it, eventually it collapses and now we have to pay for the repairs as they occur to the collapsed infrastructure, so the demands on our meager resources are exponentially rising.
So there is a considerable bitterness in regards to those who stay on top of their expenses and those who have fallen behind. Owners have to big up. Once we can stop the hemorrhaging of money to fix crisis problems, when we stop putting out fires, we can start to reinvest on the aesthetics.
Mr Groves added that the board was now working with a new debt collection agency and papers had been served telling defaulters who are in more than 90 days of arrears that they will be taken to court if they do not settle their debts.
Where else in Bermuda have you got a location and a potential like we have here? This is all about potential, this is about turning this village into a residential destination of first choice. As it stands, the proposal has yet to be reviewed by the current minister for consideration. Southampton Fort, approved in , completed in Also Moore's, or Southampton. Part of the Castle Group. Historically important. Site of historic Southampton fort shown below. Bremen 0. George's Parish.
David's Island, St. Privately owned, recently by Mona Walsh, grand-daughter of the late Howard E. Smith who previously owned it. South of Little Sound, Southampton Parish. Very small, west of Salt Kettle, Paget Parish.
Named from when settlers set fire to vegetation to get rid of rats going from island to island. Warwick Parish. Also Moses, Murderer's, Skeeter's. Not accessible by ferry, only to those with a boat. North of St. George's Harbor, St. As seen by the Tall Ships which graced our shores in June Originally King's Island, 3. One of the "Castle Group. It has the King's Castle stone fortification of , built by Governor Richard Moore, the oldest standing English fortification in the New World and oldest stone building in Bermuda.
Also with Captain's House, built in , the oldest standing home of Bermuda stone and oldest standing English house in North America. The buildings are overlooked on the summit by Devonshire Redoubt, built in stone in to replace one destroyed by fire in It was from King's Castle fort that the only attack ever recorded by the Spanish against Bermuda was repulsed in Two shots were fired from the fort at two Spanish ships sighted just outside the channel into Castle Harbor.
The planned invaders headed out to sea without knowing the fort had only one more cannonball left. The fort was improved over the centuries and saw active duty in World War II.
There was once a local family called Ely, derived from the UK cathedral. It became quite a common surname for people once from that region, including colonists to North America and beyond. George's Parish, a group of historical importance for its original fortification. The ancient English forts on these Castle Islands are without parallel in North America, evidence of the beginning of the coastal defense system of the overseas British Empire.
West of Spanish Point , Pembroke Parish. Located off the southwest tip of St. A Bermuda National Park. Named after the coney fish Cephalopholis fulva once prominent around here. It has an interesting, undeveloped park and beaches, also a noisy motor cycle track. Its northernmost tip is called North Point and was the western terminus of a railway bridge that once ran to Ferry Reach. The public beaches are in the Department of Environmental Protection but are frequently littered with bottles, plastics, wood and more.
Camping was once a popular seasonal event but is no longer allowed, for reforestation. Historically significant. Now joined since to and part of St. David's Island in St. So-called after a William Cooper from London, one of the original colonists in In it was claimed by Christopher Carter in payment for his share of ambergris forfeited to the Bermuda Company. He spent years there digging in vain for what he thought was buried treasure.
In , Governor Moore had built the Pembroke Fort at the south eastern end. It had two cannons mounted on it. Then, both all of Cooper's Island and much of St. David's Island. In part of Cooper's Island was occupied by a purpose-built NASA space tracking station to gather tracking and scientific data from all its spacecraft, satellites and planetary probes.
Personnel from NASA used the beaches. Dockyard, Sandys Parish. Initially just a rocky outcrop used as a marker by the Royal Navy, built on and added to hugely in years , and for the America's Cup.
The America's Cup village, see above, on Cross Island was created as the hub of the event. July The court documents warned the pair to pay the full amount plus interest in 30 days or face civil proceedings. The Government failed to answer questions yesterday about whether the money was repaid in full. Mr Blakey did not respond to phone calls and e-mails. Ms Trott declined to comment. For the avoidance of doubt, the loan may not be used by you to fund other business, to pay or discharge any other loan, or to make expenditures not directly connected with the studio, and the loan shall be a first charge on the equipment in the studio.
The agreement said Ms Trott and Mr Blakey would have to pay for any costs run up by the Government related to enforcement of its rights under the loan terms. Both signed the agreement, along with Randy Rochester, who was then the Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Economic Development and Tourism and is now permanent secretary at the public works ministry.
Ms Trott was event project manager at the Corporation of Hamilton until December last year. As well as chief operating officer of Savvy, she is the executive producer of Bermuda Fashion Festival.
Savvy organised the fashion festival this year after submitting a request for proposal bid to City Hall. It is not known if Savvy is still managing Cross Island or whether Moresby House has been converted into a studio. Questions were sent to the Ministry of Tourism and Transport about the loan and the management of Cross Island. A spokesman said it could take some time to answer, as the deal was struck under the now-axed ministry of economic development and tourism.
Charlton Dill, the chairman of Wedco, could not be reached yesterday. May Indoor agriculture, aquaculture and renewable energy would be incorporated, said the committee. If we take all the elements of this proposal together, we think the overall value is far greater than if you take them individually.
The concept could create new jobs and industry alike. It is really important to understand that we are not talking about some grow-out in the backyard here. A Supreme Court decision, following an appeal launched by the Bermuda Environmental Sustainability Taskforce, found deficiencies in the Environmental Impact Assessments completed for the possible redevelopment proposals, however.
The ten-member committee was formed by Wedco last year following the court decision. Greatest emphasis among the criteria was given to the economic benefit for Bermuda. Multiple benefits from the hub, Mr Caines said, could include international education opportunities. Cross Island, Bermuda - home of the 35th America's Cup. With more inexperienced boaters expected to hit the waters as the weather gets warmer, the Bermuda Water Safety Council urged them to stay near shorelines and give room to the foiling boats.
They go about up wind and down with the wind. And with the speed of these boats, even more experienced people say they look around and see the boat a mile away and then they are on top of them. It has been noted that the Bermuda boating public are getting too close for safety both to themselves and the AC teams. Please give the AC boats as much room as you are able and try to stay near shorelines when you are out on the water.
The consequences of a collision with one of these foiling boats could be catastrophic. Safety first. But he argued the spotter boats need to be focused on reacting to emergencies rather than asking spectators to move. While it may be tempting to try and take a closer look, please do not do so as proximity dramatically increases the risk of an incident. It will have a roof to provide shade, and its own exclusive bar at the base of its structure, with drinks and snacks service for guests in their seats.
A press release from the ACBDA says demand has already been very high for Grandstand seats and tickets are already sold out on June 17, 18, 24 and February 9. The general manager of the West End Development Corporation acknowledged that if the island secured the sailing spectacle in the final determination over the future of Cross Island would be pushed back further.
In this case everything would be kept as it is until when the final end uses decision would be made.
They went out to the public at the end of last year in one of the most consultative processes I have ever seen. They asked everyone what their opinion was on what should be there.
The short listed uses have been submitted to the Wedco board and are currently being assessed. It is possible that the board may determine that further due diligence and analysis may be required. The board should be able to say something in March. January Construction crews, asphalt teams and heavy machinery operators are working around the clock, seven days a week, to ensure that Cross Island will meet its mid-May deadline in preparation for the sailing spectacle. Scores of workers from a dozen Bermudian firms are presently involved in the multimillion dollar development, which project managers say will be brought in on schedule.
Meanwhile, next week, we have a further 40 containers of grandstands and stages arriving; they will be stored on Moresby Field until we start erecting them. While the asphalting continues, contractors will also start on the Club building; the main hospitality arena for the event, that will look directly out to The Great Sound over the racecourse.
All in all, the island stood up well. It was a good test of the work that has been done. The aggregate was spread across a nine-acre area and held in position by vast sheet piles that were driven into the seabed to form the boundary of the new island.
Power lines and sewage pipes as well as other infrastructure have been installed in recent months, and work to raise the South Arm, which will provide the backbone to the superyacht berths, is ongoing. But, the last 10 per cent always seems to take the longest time. October 7. The aggregate came to the island on the MV Balder, a specialized ship that allowed the fill material to be offloaded by conveyor belt into the South Basin. The Balder was one of the largest vessels to have ever sailed into the South Basin and the process involved two highly specialized tractor tugs to assist the vessel entering and departing.
The tugs were assisted by staff from the Department of Marine and Ports. I congratulate and thank everyone involved in ensuring that Bermuda honours our commitments. Our focus going forward is to create a lasting legacy for Cross Island. Committee chairman Wayne Caines spoke earlier this week at the Chewstick Open Mic session and will do again this Sunday, appealing to young Bermudians to get involved.
We want to create a legacy that will help Bermudians for years to come. They are:. Financial is weighted 16; economic is weighted at 25; environmental 20; social and cultural is The committee will then recommend the best ideas, or the best combination of ideas, to Wedco, whose board will review and shortlist the ideas further to form part of a public RFP process.
Mr Caines said he was convinced that Wedco was committed to carrying out an inclusive and transparent RFP process. The detail will come with the RFP submissions. We are being as open and transparent about this process as we can be because we want to engage the community in generating ideas but we also want to see and hear discussions about those ideas. I accepted an invitation to become the chairman of the Cross Island Legacy Committee because I feel passionately about this country and its future, and saw in this a chance to help to create a game changer that could benefit Bermuda economically and culturally.
All these, if they went ahead, would provide jobs and help to bring investment to the island. Helped tremendously by Deloitte, the committee has been, and will be, asking stakeholders, community groups, professional groups and everyone in between for ideas. If you have not contributed already, you can via www. You can see and comment on many of the ideas on our Cross Island Facebook page.
Please tell us which ideas you support and why, and help us to improve and to develop the ideas that others have already submitted. I also want to emphasise that this process is not necessarily about finding one big idea, one big development. The best solution may be lots of small ideas, so it is inclusive, allowing the average Bermudian a chance to participate and to benefit.
The deadline for your submission is July The work of the committee will then start in earnest as we begin to digest and to analyze all the ideas. We will all work towards delivering workable ideas to Wedco. The committee will evaluate the benefits and costs of each idea against the following key objectives:.
Once that is accomplished, we will pass our short listed recommendations to the Wedco board, which will then review and shortlist the ideas to form part of a public request for proposal process. We are confident that Wedco is committed to carrying out a transparent and inclusive RFP process in the next phase of this exciting endeavour. This is a conversation worth having.
It is a once-in-a-generation opportunity and I hope we will receive 60, ideas. Manmade beginning in late , to be finished by late to house the America's Cup and thereafter a mix of public and private events.
To accommodate mega-yachts. Announced in November for construction in To be built added to substantially from the remains of the previous island under a public private partnership between Wedco and South Basin Development Ltd. The development will be a major step in the continuation of the redevelopment of the area where the former Royal Navy Dockyard was located.
By doing so, it created a natural defence against the sea, to plug what had earlier been an obvious breach of defences there. In the process, the Royal Navy approved the change of name from Cross to Sober Island to stem the outbreaks of drunkenness among the crews working on the project.
It was then a very small and partly submerged outcrop of land, not really an island at the extreme south western end of the Dockyard area. It was so-called because a religious cross had once been found there, leading finders to believe there might have been buried treasure nearby. But it was never found. Northwest of Watford Bridge, Sandys Parish. Information details on the following islands are now being revised.
Warwick North Central constituency. Not accessible by ferry, owned by the Bermuda Government. See it from western Harbor Road. This 15 acre island in the Great Sound has a unique history. It was once a quarantine station for epidemics in , and of small pox, yellow fever and cholera.
It was a designated prisoner of war Island Camp during the Boer War. Its 1, involuntary inhabitants shipped to Bermuda from South Africa to isolate them included Generals of the Boer Army. Many of these prisoners of war died in Bermuda. A memorial to them is on Long Island not far away.
In , the island was a purpose built maintenance, refueling station and terminal for flying boats of Pan American and Imperial Airways. The airport here was the base for and pioneered scheduled USA to Bermuda flying routes. It was Bermuda's first permanent facility for any kind of aircraft. She did a successful reciprocal survey of the route. On June 12, the million dollar terminal building at Darrell's Island Airport was formally opened. Bermuda become THE mid Atlantic seaplane and flying boat airport base and resort.
It was also the date of the inaugural flights of the Cavalier and Bermuda Clipper. Both landed safely. Both flying boats took off from Port Washington, New York. RMA Cavalier was commanded by Capt. Bermuda Clipper was commanded by Capt. Passengers on this particular flight included Mr. Tucker, General Manager of John S. Williams of J. Richard Scott of Boston, returning from their honeymoon in Bermuda; and Mr. Eugene Kelly, Mrs. Alice James and Mrs.
John Fullarton, all of New York. During the war, American use of Bermuda as a military base caused their desertion of this island for the land based airport they built. From June for several years, the island was used as a film studio location. The old flying boat hanger was demolished in Then it became a residential island. Most of it later got taken over by the Bermuda Government. Aquatic life takes refuge here and during storms or hurricanes small boats take shelter to leeward.
Not accessible by ferry, only by boat. During the Boer War, prisoners of war on work parties crossed from Port's to Long and the other way around via a wooden footbridge on this island. Privately owned. Also known as Sin, Hamilton Harbour.
George's Island and north of Coney Island, St. It is named after the horse ferry that used to come here until the late 19th century. It was then the only connection between St. George's Island and Main Island.
A bridge connects the island with Ferry Point behind it. Recently owned and lived on by Curt Engelhorn, the German billionaire. A mere dot, South of Nelly Island.
Sometimes called Gallows or Gibbet's. They are not accessible to the general public except by water, up to the high tide mark. The 10 and 11 buses stop on either side of the North Shore Road nearby. They guard the entrance to Flatts Inlet.
As a seafaring island, Bermuda inherited and followed many of the same customs as its mother-country, the UK, including use of the gibbet. Gibbeting was one of the methods said by Tacitus and Cassius Dio to have been used by Boudica's army in the slaughter of Roman settlers in the destruction of what are now Colchester, Essex, England, London and St. Albans in AD In Bermuda, the islands above were used for this purpose because it was not on the mainland, was not in a populated area where sights and smells of decaying corpses could offend sensibilities.
Both were once sites for executions of witches by burning at the stake and felons, not just by hanging but also gibbeted. One hanging was in , a slave from New England, Indian John. He was the property of William Maddigan who then lived at Orange Grove not far away in the same parish.
Indian John escaped, tried to set fire to the house, seized a pistol and intended to shoot every member of the family, but was captured. He was sentenced by Governor Florentius Seymour to be executed, have his head cut off and be quartered and the head and quarters put on poles for all to see, in other words gibbeted.
Another slave, Quashi, was hung there in after being convicted of murder of his master John McNeil. Altogether, there may have been as many as 17 cases of gibbeting in Bermuda. Bermuda is the only place in the world with an island named after a gibbet. It was also the only place in Bermuda where the gibbet was used as an additional refinement to hanging. Persons hung had a less humiliating end, they could be buried decently.
But bodies gibbeted because of the seriousness of their crimes were left there to smell and rot, and were sometimes tarred to lengthen their displayed broken corpses and prolong their public displays, as a deterrent to others.
Today, the bare pole is not an old gallows but an old standard for a navigation light. Goat 1 Fairylands Creek, Pembroke Parish. Near Stipple Island and like it a nature reserve. George's Harbor, near St. Its old ruined fort, Smith's Fort see below , was once the dominant feature. It was named for Governor Richard Moore who in began the fort as a way to command the vulnerable but then strategically important channel nearby.
By the time Moore's term ended, 11 guns were in the fort. One of the less inaccessible forts but historically important. On the list of Bermuda National Parks and Reserves. In a skeleton more than years old was found buried and unearthed here during an archaeological dig. The skeleton was the second to be found buried in Smith's Fort. The latest skeleton, a male estimated to be in his early 20s, was discovered in one of the fort's "Merlons'' which is a large rampart part of the wall, between which cannons would be fired.
The fort was originally built in , and the foundations of two towers built in Bermuda stone were discovered two years ago. In June , another skeleton was found on the same site, only yards from the current skeleton and both appear to have been laborers working on rebuilding Smith's Fort in the s. The fort was modified at that time by St. The Royal Engineers were an army corps responsible for constructing forts and bridges.
Major Durnford was responsible for modernizing Bermuda's forts following the American revolution, and destroyed all but the footings of the original fort before rebuilding it.
Modifications to the fort were deemed necessary at the time to fortify Bermuda as one of the British strongholds in the New World. The individual just discovered was buried in a nightshirt and possibly a shroud, as pins for the sheet and buttons for the shirt have been found with the skeleton. In addition, a coin or medallion was found in the area of the heart and was perhaps in a pocket as it had fragments of cloth adhering to it. The coin was a major find and helped to date when the man was buried, but the cloth that has corroded to it prevented them from reading the date.
Archaeologists believe that the two skeletons were those of young men. The latest skeleton was remarkably well-preserved and the man had an almost perfect set of teeth and no visible signs of trauma or injury. The two men had been buried in coffins and although many nails were found the wood had completely rotted away.
They may have been victims of yellow fever which claimed many lives in Bermuda over several centuries. The skeletons were sent overseas for analysis, but there were no obvious signs on either of any injury. They will then be kept in the care of the Bermuda Maritime Museum.
At the entrance to Crawl Island, Sandy's Parish. Construction of the RN Hospital near the Dockyard, in the same pre-fabricated manner as the later Commissioner's House, initially as a Quarantine unit. When added to substantially later, in addition to cast iron structural features, such as veranda columns, floor joists, and possibly cast and wrought iron roof trusses, some of the stonework for the building was the hard local limestone.
A surgeon, doctors and medical staff were appointed and sent by the Royal Navy. During World War 2, the Royal Naval Hospital, Bermuda, treated and often saved the lives of many brought in from torpedoed ships.
The Royal Navy left in s. That hospital building ended its life as an egg farm, then finally was deliberately burnt to the ground by the Fire Department in November Part of it became the site for Lefroy House, for senior citizens. Photographs by Keith A.
An official from the government of South Africa visited here in W de Klerk. Mbeki was in Bermuda for secret talks with South African political opponents in and had traveled from his exile base in Tanzania.
On May 1, , Dr. Her family was actively involved in the Boer War. Prominent Bermudian businesspeople have private cottages or land on the island. August 7. An endangered species of snail saved from extinction by a breeding programme has been released into the wild. A spokesman for the BNT said the endemic Poecilozonites bermudensis snails, once plentiful, had been almost wiped out in the late s by introduced predators, pesticides and human expansion.
Conservationists presumed the invertebrates were lost until Alex Lines, a Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo intern, found small populations clinging to life in isolated spots. He had been sent out to search for the creatures during the summer of , in the wake of a December story in The Royal Gazette. Specimens were sent to London Zoo for a captive breeding programme and Chester Zoo joined in the effort. The first repatriation of snails to Bermuda was made in February.
It has survived radical changes to the landscape and ecology on the remote oceanic islands of Bermuda for up to a million years, but, since the s and s, it has declined rapidly. Its demise is mainly due to changes to their habitat and the introduction of several predatory snails. Their fossils were one of many influences on his controversial evolutionary theory, punctuated equilibrium.
Dr Gould, who died in , also provided a record of the near extinction of the greater Bermuda land snail species, after he had earlier found thousands of live snails when he visited Bermuda in the s. He wrote that he could find none after a visit. Dr Outerbridge said the public would be unlikely to find the Poecilozonites variety of snails on the mainland.
He said that if any were discovered, the Department of Environment and Natural Resources would accept specimens to add to the breeding programme to boost the genetic diversity of its stock. Stamp issued by the Bermuda Government in to mark the anniversary of the Beebe and Co. Photo above right of Arthur St. George Tucker, in about Nonsuch to St. August 1. George's Prisoner of War camp where the camp commandant was Captain G. Coopers Island was joined to St. It was one of two American bases in Bermuda, with this one the only one in the east and the other a US Navy station in the east, in Southampton Parish, were for anti-submarine warfare, the provision of air support and as an assembly point for trans-Atlantic convoys.
After the St. The main islands are connected by bridges. With nine parishes counties or districts , each 2. One of the many spectacular Bermuda beache s and scenes.
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