The Old Sugar Works Museum

The Old Sugar Works Museum

Limited Edition Giclee Print By Jill Tattersall 12" x 8"

When we arrived on Tortola in 1965 these islands were on the brink of exciting expansion.  The first radio station (ZBVI) opened that year and Barclay's Bank also moved in to the Creque house, now Mrs. Creque's shoe and sewing shop. As Brittanic Hall, then the Doctor's House, was occupied by Dr. Cohen we moved out of our small sloop to stay at Chris Hammersley's tiny Fort Burt Hotel and later to the Treasure Isle while a new house was being built for us in John's Hole, the first house ever built by Public Works. It overlooked Road Harbour and the Old Agricultural Station, as it was then called, later known as the Survey Department, and more recently, the Old Sugar Works, which stood on the sea shore before the Wickham's Cay dredging, among a tangled forest of mangroves where my children loved to play.  Between the building and us was a field of pink flowering Glyrocidia and a shady stretch of road lined with stately Seman trees.