Seaside town

[johng]

Captaind,

What did you do when you worked at Appleton? I was there last April doing a story about Joy Spence the Master Distiller there. Very nice place!! I remember Maggotty used to be a main point on the rail line to Kingston before they started trucking products overland

[captaind]

Captaind,

What did you do when you worked at Appleton? I was there last April doing a story about Joy Spence the Master Distiller there. Very nice place!! I remember Maggotty used to be a main point on the rail line to Kingston before they started trucking products overland

In the late 60s and early 70s I ran a small (12,000 ton) island freighter for Wray and Nephew in conjunction with Grace Kennedy. You can still see these types today going along the coast of Jamaiaca.

Unfortunately, during the mid 70s due to Geo-political issues that effort was cancelled.

To the credit of the owners of W & N I was given a contract to haul cane from the outlying farms (Holland Bamboo, Maggoty etc)

I was at the estate 3 - 4 days a week in that time. In fact I spent the night of the 1980 elections in the home of the estate manager (Howard Tavares)

[johng]

captaind,

Sounds interesting. I was in JA too during the 1980 Election and had taken the train from Kingston to MoBay. Due to equipment problems the train was delayed about three hours and we didn't arrive in MoBay until after dark. Remember the election violence at the time, My friend and I got a small room in downtown MoBay and listened throughout the night to gunfire on the streets. The next morning we got transport to Negril and found out that Michael Manley aws holding a rally at the roundabout after greeting some followers at the Negril Beach Club. It was the day before the election.My friend and I were the only two white people at the rally and took some great pics of MM despite being told numerous times no photos.