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Manchester Parish Library

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Two-storey building housing the Manchester Parish LIbrary, located along Main Street in capital city Mandeville.

The Parish Church

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Members of the congregation and cars on the outside of the St. Mark's Anglican Church building in Mandeville, Manchester.
From views of churches, rectories and other Diocesan buildings in Jamaica in March 1931.

Manchester - Ward Avenue

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"Oh what a waste! The protracted drought which has been gripping the island makes any rain, natural or seeded, a blessed event and a precious default on Mandeville's Ward Avenue makes rain a continually wasted and obviously unwanted blessing. Heavy…

Central Manchester

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"After the flood: this is how the inside of many homes in Central Manchester looked after recent flood waters subsided, many people lost most of their furniture and clothing."

Cedar Grove in Manchester

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"Death yard: Relatives and friends at the home of Berrisford Choy who drowned in a pond with Clinton Townsend at Cedar Grove, Manchester."

Content in Manchester

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"Moving out: A woman and her family move out of Content in Manchester after the area was ravaged by floods earlier this week."

Manchester - Clarendon border

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"Clearing the way: Joslyn Cole (left) and Benjamin Parker clearing the road of debris is at Whitney Turn near the Clarendon-Manchester border Tuesday. Mr. Parker told the Daily News that he lost five goats in the heavy rains."

Manchester - Cedar Grove

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"Telling her story: seventy-year-old Evelyn Williams telling the Daily News yesterday how she reared Clinton Townsend from he was almost a little tot before he lost his life by drowning at Cedar Grove, Manchester Monday. Ms. Williams is flanked by…

Cedar Grove, Manchester

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"Death scene: Cedar Grove residents around the pond where Berrisford Choy and Clinton Townsend lost their lives. Berris had jumped from the green bamboo raft (left of pond) to save Clinton who was going to join the raft."