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Details Series: 1954 Definitive Series Subject: Paradise Beach Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: Multiple Script CA Perf: 11 x 11.5 (comb) Plates: 1 (Reddish-Lilac), 1 (Black) : 1a (Reddish-Lilac), 1a (Black) [Left pane : Right pane] Sheet: Printed in two panes…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1954 Definitive Series – 8d Paradise Beach

The Montagu Beach Hotel was built in 1926 by Leon Walton Young and had 200 rooms for accommodation. It was an elaborate pink building with its own private beach and lake on fifty acres of land. It was the first hotel in Nassau to offer native entertainment. In the late…

View More Bahamas Philately: Fort Montagu Beach Hotel

The Gill Hotel chain acquired the British Colonial Hotel and invested $1,000,000 to ‘modernize and improve’ the hotel. The hotel was closed for the summer of 1956 to complete the upgrade and re-opened later in the year. Some of the facilities available included the Hong Kong Room, La Cage Supper…

View More Bahamas Philately: British Colonial Hotel – A Gill Hotel

The Ocean Club, located on Paradise Island, was originally developed as the private estate of a Swedish industrialist, Axel Wenner-Gren. For more than two decades he created a magnificent estate with intricately landscaped gardens inspired by those at the Chateau de Versailles. Wenner-Gren christened it Shangri-La. In 1962 Huntington Hartford…

View More Bahamas Philately: The Ocean Club