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Scenes of Old Georgetown in the 1960s
- Observe the cars of the day- Morris Minor, Austin
Cambridge, Morris Oxford, Hillman Minx.
- Note the Bookers Sports Dept Store to the left and
opposite it.......Bettencourt’s. Stabroek Market’s
clock tower in the background
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Two of the blue Bedford buses which plied the East
Bank route
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Princess Yasmin-this one plied the East Coast
corridor. Note the wooden tray on the roof of the
bus on which are written the words: "Cane Grove & Mahaica Express". This tray was used for
transporting the "load" of the passengers
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To the left of the picture, the north eastern
section of the Marine Wing of the British Guiana
Police Force building is barely visible.
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These buses are parked in an area that was known as
"Donkey City"; so named because it was the assembly
point of dray and donkey carts which were hired for
transportation of goods and building material around
the city
Note the prominence of the bicycle which is in stark
contrast to the present day vehicular congestion
which is a feature of life around that Fogarty's,
Robb and Water Street junction.
Check out the carrier bike (left of woman in blue)
on which grocery and baker shop bread deliveries
were made.
A suspended street lamp hanging in the centre of the
Camp and Regent Street intersection, no longer a
feature of the landscape of the city.
Yong Hing's supermarket(among the first in GT of the
late 1950's) and on the opposite side(not evident in
the picture.) was Kwang Hing's supermarket
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See the Bedford van and the back of a Vauxhall Cresta car- for which Central Garage on High Street
was the sole distributor.
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Remember those straw hats.
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The Vauxhall is in the intersection on the amber
light.
HC 300- a Ford Zephyr car( or Zodiac-can't be sure)
being driven south along Water Street, west of the
Legco/National Assembly (now Parliament
building).The Fords were sold by Geddes Grant on
Main Street..that was where Courts now is.
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Camp and Murray Streets (now Quamina) intersection
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At the top right section of the
picture, see a fluorescent type street light
fitting (as opposed to the incandescent bulbs) that
was a peculiar feature of the street lighting along
Camp Street in those days.
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An beautiful panoramic view of Bookers Stores(now
Guyana Stores) .....reportedly then the largest in
the Caribbean
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Note that then there was no top flat above the east
wing
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There was then no enclosure of the lawn west of the
museum
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Note the KLM (Dutch) sign in the upper left side of
picture on what was then the Sandbach Parker
building.
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