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Romesh Chandra talking
"All for peace - World Peace Council secretary general Romesh Chandra talking about the three-day seminar which begins today at the Pegasus Hotel. He is flanked by Planning Committee chairman Leon Green (left) and Jamaica Peace Council president…
Champion baby Tanketa Chance
"Champion Baby Tanketa Chance and her mother Monica Dunn at the baby show. Tanketa's prize was the high chair in which she is sitting. Tanketa was 7lbs at birth and now weighs 20lbs 10ozs."
Mayor Ralph Brown at Christmas treat at the Poor Relief Office
"Indigent folk receiving their Christmas treat from the Mayor on Tuesday morning, at the Poor Relief Office at Church Street. About 600 people received enveloped with $3 each. At left, Mayor Ralph Brown hands over an envelope. Second left is Acting…
Lady Gladys Bustamante
"Left to right: Mrs. Edna Manley, Lady Bustamante and Information and Culture Minister of State Ed Bartlett listen with rapt attention about the contents of the 'Costume Shop' which was officially opened y the two ladies on Tuesday. The shop is a new…
Lady Bustamante giving a helping hand
"Lady Bustamante being given a helping hand by National Security Minister Dudley Thompson as they laid the wreath on the monument of National Hero Sir Alexander Bustamante."
Clifford Campbell
"Former Governor-General, Clifford Campbell, reading the 'Black Heritage Bible' at his home."
Yallahs fording
"Where is the road? This is the Yallahs River in spate yesterday - a day and a half after Tuesday's torrential showers. The fording, which normally enable the scores of vehicles plying between Kingston and St. Thomas and through the Portland, is…
Maxfield Park Children's Home
"Fine Gesture: Maxfield Park Children's Home Matron, Mrs. O'Conner Johnson, receiving a cheque for $200 from Flour Mills and Allied Industry Worker's Chief Delegate, Henry Brown, yesterday afternoon. The donation came from the workers' back pay,…
Darling Street
"Darling Street in West Kingston is a main thoroughfare for vehicles and pedestrians using that section of the Corporate Area. The road surface is one of the worst in the city. Its many potholes look more like lakes. Daily News photographed these…
Cart wheels
"Cart wheels anyone? Youngsters on the Summer Youth Programme at Fort Clarence Beach abandon themselves to fun and gaiety. Turning cart wheels is just another of the activities they find time to do so. Here boys from the Olivier Place of Safety "do…
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Drax Hall water wheel

Ruins of the water-wheel on the Drax Hall Estate that was founded in 1669 by William Drax. The water-wheel was used to provide power to turn on the…