East Bay Street extends from Bay Street, downtown Nassau, to the East. The Eastern part of the street begins at Paradise Island Bridge. Hotels, Clubs & Accommodation Bahamas Country Club Fort Montagu Beach Hotel Nassau Yacht Haven Montagu Beach Hotel Things to Do Fort Montagu Potter’s Cay Postcards 1971 –…
View More Bahamas Philately: New Providence – Nassau – East Bay StreetLove Beach is situated along the north-western shore of New Providence. Postcards 1953 – Mardon, Son & Hall Ltd (No.40-70)
View More Bahamas Philately: New Providence – Love BeachNassau is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas and is located on New Providence. Nassau’s modern growth began in the late eighteenth century, with the influx of thousands of Loyalists and their slaves to the Bahamas following the American War of Independence. Many of them settled in Nassau…
View More Bahamas Philately: New Providence – NassauCoral Harbour is located on the southern shores of New Providence. In 1955, the Hotel Encourage Act (Coral Harbour Development) authorised the development of Coral Harbour by agreement with Lenora Balsey Hopkins, The Carl Fisher Company, Lindsey Hopkins Jr, and Sara Hopins Ludwig. Lenora and Lindsay Hopkins were the widow and son…
View More Bahamas Philately: New Providence – Coral HarbourCable Beach is a beach and resort destination on the northern coast of New Providence, Bahamas. The name is believed to have derived from an 1892 submarine telegraph cable linking Jupiter, Florida, USA to Goodman’s Bay, Nassau. Tourism in the area dates back as early as the 1940s, and…
View More Bahamas Philately: New Providence – Cable BeachWinding Bay Beach is nestled between Rock Sound and Tarpum Bay on Eleuthera. It is considered as one of Eleuthera’s prettiest pink sand beaches. Hotels, Clubs & Accommodation Winding Bay Beach Cottages Postcards 1979 – Acme Press (Type 1)
View More Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Winding BayThe major settlement of Rock Sound in South Eleuthera was originally called New Portsmouth. At one stage it was also called Wreck Sound, because of the wrecking of ships out on the reefs. Many feel that Rock Sound is very appropriate, because of a large rock located between the…
View More Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Rock SoundWemyss Bight is a settlement in South Eleuthera. POSTAL SERVICES Sub Post Office
View More Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Wemyss BightLucaya is a suburb of Freeport, Bahamas, a city on the island of Grand Bahama. The area was developed as part of the Grand Bahama Port Authority’s redevelopment of Freeport/Lucaya. While the western portion of Freeport was developed for industrial and commercial use, the eastern portion of Lucaya was developed…
View More Bahamas Philately: Grand Bahama – LucayaWest End (also referred to as Settlement Point) is the oldest town and westernmost settlement on Grand Bahama. Since the 1950s, the settlement of West End has fluctuated with the rise and fall of the adjacent resort developments. Records from West End show that the population in 1836 was…
View More Bahamas Philately: Grand Bahama – West End