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Library promotes the benefits of membership

Residents are being encouraged to discover a huge range of resources they can now access at the Bermuda National Library — and could be in line for a prize if they join up. The facility is promoting the benefits of membership — which now include acce...
Sep 11, 2014
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Paint the bridge red!

On 5 July 2014, one Maggie Paul of England wrote to the Editor of this newspaper, who captioned her letter Delighted by bridge renovation, as follows: ‘I was delighted to see in The Royal Gazette for June 28th that the bridge across to Crawl Island i...
Jul 26, 2014
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A palette off the old block

In this centenary year of the beginning of the Great War (1914—18), we are reminded of the name of the warship HMS Aboukir, for it was on the demise of that vessel that William Edmund Smith was the first Bermudian to be lost in that conflict. Ultimat...
Jul 12, 2014
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Popping up with a new fundraising concept

Sharon Wilson and the Bermuda National Trust (BNT) have collaborated to create a ‘pop-up gallery’ in its ‘Waterville’ headquarters, where a third of the proceeds from the sale of her works will benefit the charitable organisation. She has brought abo...
Jul 08, 2014
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Island is an open book at library

Children and adults are invited to learn more about our Island home through a summer reading programme. The initiative, Read Around the Rock, will showcase books that contain interesting facts and folklore about each of the nine parishes. The progr...
Jul 01, 2014
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A return to its pre-Fabian grandeur

The National Museum of Bermuda with the help of sponsors has hired Correia Construction to lead refurbishment works on Hospital Island in Sandys, including the rebuilding of one of Bermuda’s oldest bridges. Correia Construction workers have been tas...
Jun 28, 2014
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National Trust honours scientists for Amphibian Project study

The Bermuda National Trust has honoured the “outstanding” work and contributions of those who “have worked for the benefit of Bermuda and its people” at its annual awards ceremony. Gathered in the Bermuda Room at Elbow Beach last Thursday, awardees w...
Jun 25, 2014
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‘Too hot to use’

Less than a week after opening to the public, the stainless steel slide at the National Museum’s new playground will be closed following complaints from parents that the slide was too hot for their children to use. “The main slide is basically unusab...
Jun 18, 2014
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History takes to the air

You may well ask where the world would be without ‘spotters’ (and other dedicated enthusiasts), more familiar to many perhaps as the train and plane variety, hugging the sides of railway embankments or peaking through link fencing on the periphery of...
Jun 14, 2014
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Casemates Barracks goes National

Seven years ago, the then Bermuda Maritime Museum, with the kind permission of the West End Development Corporation and its Chairman (later a Minister of the Bermuda Government), Lt Col David Burch, OBE, JP, ED, began a project of pre-restoration wor...
May 31, 2014
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A Bermudian miscellanea in watercolours

In the remarkable Fay and Geoffrey Elliott Collection of nineteenth-century paintings and photographs at the Bermuda Archives are a number of works for which the author, that is to say, artist, is presently unknown. Like many family photographs, anci...
May 24, 2014
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Prince David bows to our reefs

As the Great Depression of 1929—39 was beginning, the shipping subsidiary of the Canadian National Railways, the Canadian National Steamships, ordered three identical passenger liners from the Cammell Laird works at Birkenhead, near the great maritim...
May 17, 2014
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