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Mountain View Avenue

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"Flash Flood: Traffic on Mountain View Avenue in Kingston came to a halt yesterday afternoon as a localised flash flood put a large area of this main thoroughfare under water. There was only slight to moderate rain in other sections of the city."

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Jacques Road

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"Muddy mirror: The pointing hand (top left) shows the level to which water and mud reached in Miss Yvonne Brown's house on Jacques Road."

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Norman Manley Airport dual driveway

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"The heavy rains this week made another pond one side of the dual driveway leading to the Norman Manley Airport. At some parts of the road water was about one foot deep. The authorities have closed the flooded side of the road and the other side now…

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Majesty Pen

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" "But what can we do?" seems to think his Majesty Pen occupant as she stares at the Daily News camera with folded arms."

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Majesty Pen

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"Blocked - This is Majesty Pen section of the Kingston Railway line which was blocked by debris washed away in the surging tide of the heavy rains."

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Leonard DeCordova Ltd.

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"A Leonard DeCordova vehicle returns to base through the 'river'."

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Kintyre

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"A houeholder sweeps mud from the living room of on eof the houses in Kintyre which were flooded in Friday's rains."

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Fire engine

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A K.S.A.C. Fire Department firetruck preparing to go on a run.

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Unveiling of the cenotaph, Church Street, 1923

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Scores of citizens and military personnel gather for the official ceremony for the unveiling of the World War Cenotaph on Church Street in Downtown, Kingston, held on Armistice Day on November 11, 1923. It was erected for Jamaican men who lost their…

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The Up Park Camp, Kingston, Ja.

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Aerial view of the barracks, quarters and other buildings on the Up Park Camp grounds in Kingston, with a view of Long Mountain, Port Royal Mountains and St. Catherine's Peak.

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