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"Believe it or not, this man dances on broken bottles for a living. As if that isn't enough. Kingsley Archer takes up a handful of the splinters at each performance and rubs them over his face! Usually, a gasp goes up from the audience as they watch…

Commercial buildings along King Street. Several horse-drawn carriages are seen. To the right is the Bee Hive store at the corner of King and Harbour Streets.

King Street, Kingston leading to Victoria Pier on the Waterfront. Boats are docked at the Pier persons are standing or walking along the waterfront.

Sign commemorating the 145th anniversary of Kingston being designated as the capital city of Jamaica.

"Vendors arcade - well on the way! - The days of those semi-permanent vendors stalls along King Street are numbered! This is the Vendors Arcade now being constructed at the corner of Laws and Church Streets, at which all present King Street Vendors…

"De dread red an' wan' lik off dem head... a rastafarian dreadlocksed higgler [left] is filled with wrath as he angrily watched labourers from the Public Cleansing Department of KSAC pulling down his shack [correction, grocery store] at South Parade…

"Demolition: Remains of shacks which were demolished by the KSAC on Orange Street near North Parade in Kingston."

"Local Government Minister Pearnel Charles, addressing higglers on King Street yesterday afternoon. He told the vendors they had until Friday to remove the permanent structures and put up mobile stalls."

Partial view of the front of the historic Kingston Parish Church.

A view of the Kingston Parish Library taken from Tom Redcam Drive.