Mark was very pleased to help Grantley Adams Memorial School, and a voluntary group set up to bring a former slave hospital back into use, with an evening event to demonstrate the building’s potential to create a better future for all Bajans.

We were lucky enough to get local artists to display paintings on the ruined walls of the last remaining former slave hospital in Barbados, the school children displayed excellent Batik work, ethnobotanical plants were displayed by Andromeda Gardens, Chef Gregory from Arlington Museum donated Rum Punch, the older children provided all the catering, as well as singing, and we displayed work from our stone workshop earlier in the week. The stone being donated by Coral Stone Products.

We were honoured by the presence of the Attorney General, as well as the Governments Special Advisor on Culture and Heritage, Senator John King, and the Senior Education Officer in the Ministry of Education, and we generally all had a good time and the rain held off after prayers had been said.

M Womersleys on behalf of the Queen Elizabeth II, Platinum Jubilee Commonwealth Heritage Skills Training Programme, funded by the Hamish Ogston Foundation, is delivering a programme of work here in Barbados.