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The Tree – By Geoff Burrowes

These are the sentimental wanderings of an old man’s mind at 5 in the morning in a country far away from the country of my birth!  British Guiana – now Guyana.

There was a tree on the South Western intersection of Brickdam and Brummel Place. For those of us who can’t remember Brummel Place was a short street that ran from the footbridge over the Croal Street trench street at the end of Cummings Street  to Louisa Row on the South side of Brickdam. My grandfather’s three storied, white wooden house, which later became Wray High School and even later Dr Ali Shaw’s Hospital was at the corner of Croal Street and Brummel Place.          Continue reading →