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PHOTO FLASHBACK: Reminders of style and traditions past

Published:Thursday | October 13, 2022 | 10:13 PM
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Distillery ruins on the University grounds. It is now being transformed into a greenhouse and a Chinese Garden.
The Aqueduct of an old sugar estate is now part of the University of the West Indies grounds.
Half-Way Tree is the famed centre of St Andrew and the clock tower which was erected in 1913 to the memory of Edward VII. This tree, however, is not the original Half-Way Tree.
MEMORIAL TO THEIR BROTHERS: This monument on the grounds of Wolmer's Boys’ School was erected by old students to the memory of their school-fellows who died in the First World War.
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Time passes and fashions change. The sun dial gives way to the electric clock. The highly ornamented gateway yield to fashionable simplicity. The functional building of yesterday becomes the quaint ruin of today. Everywhere the story is thus written, and the parish of St Andrew has its share. Old aqueduct, old clock, old walls. But certain values withstand Time. Monuments to craftsmanship, to bravery, to tradition, the spirit which prompted them will be appreciated still.