The RMS Queen Elizabeth was an ocean liner operated by Cunard Line. She was launched on 27 September 1938 and named in honour of Queen Elizabeth, who was later known as the Queen Mother. With a design that improved upon that of Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth was a slightly larger…
View More Bahamas Philately: Cunard Line – RMS Queen ElizabethThe Sea Garden is located in the narrows between Paradise and Athol Islands, opposite Nassau and was created in 1892. During the 1960’s, it was one of the finest marine displays in the world, with specially constructed glass-bottom boats to allow visitors to examine brightly coloured fish and corals. Stamp…
View More Bahamas Philately: Sea GardenElbow Cay is an eight-mile-long cay in the Abaco Islands of the Bahamas. Although visited by Lucayan Indians earlier, the first known permanent residents were British loyalists fleeing the newly independent United States of America in 1785 in what was known as Great Harbour. Its main village of Hope Town…
View More Bahamas Philately: Abaco Islands – Elbow CayThe Buena Vista Hotel was located on Delancy Street, Nassau. The Buena Vista Estate began on 10 February 1789 when the Royal Governor, John Murray, Earl of Dunmore and Viscount of Fincastle, granted a 150 acre parcel of land to the Honourable John Brown, Esquire. Over the years, the estate…
View More Bahamas Philately: Buena Vista HotelMs. Hathe Thompson and Ms. Marion Johnson are said to have held the first Catholic mass on Harbour Island in their home, the Little Boarding House, and also influenced the Roman Catholic Bishop to start a church. Postcards 1961 – Lewis Studios (S26600L2 Series) References Bahamasgeotourism.com
View More Bahamas Philately: Blessed Sacrament Church (R.C)Gold Rock Creek is a cove located on Grand Bahama, east of Lucayan National Park, and west of Turtle Reef. Postcards Columbia International (163000 Series) References Mapcarta
View More Bahamas Philately: Grand Bahama – Gold Rock CreekGovernment House is the official residence of the Governor General of The Bahamas, located in Nassau. Built on a hill known as Mount Fitzwilliam, and completed in 1806, this imposing stuccoed-coral-rock building on Duke Street is the Bahamian archipelago’s foremost example of Georgian Colonial architecture. The building’s original neoclassical aspect,…
View More Bahamas Philately: Government HouseJust off Rawson Square on the south side, is Parliament Square (previously referred to as Public Square). The square is bordered by three distinctive Georgian neoclassical buildings, housing the key branches of Bahamian government The Georgian-style buildings were built between 1805 and 1813, are presided over by a statue of…
View More Bahamas Philately: Parliament SquareRawson Square is located in downtown Nassau on Bay Street. It was named after Sir Rawson W. Rawson, Governor of The Bahamas from 1864 to 1869. Governor Rawson was responsible for filling in Crown Dock to allow ships to dock close to the city. To the north of the square…
View More Bahamas Philately: Rawson SquareGreat Harbour Cay, Berry Islands, underwent a period in intense and successful development in the late 1960s by Louis A Chelser, a Canadian entrepreneur who brought gambling to Freeport but was later forced out of the same town. The island attracted famous persons such as Cary Grant, Douglas Fairbanks, Brigitte…
View More Bahamas Philately: Berry Islands – Great Harbour Cay