Janus: Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

RCS/Y3011C-N/Y3011E contains:
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55	[Princess Marie Louise arriving at Government House, Antigua]
56	[Group at Government House, Saint Johns Antigua]
57	Government House, Montserrat
58	[Antiguan children going to church]
59	[Sir Henry Hesketh Bell]
60	[Benyon]
61	Jack Walpole
62	[General Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands, March 1914]
62A	General Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands, March 1914
63	[Governor's arrival at meeting of General Legislative Council of the Leeward Islands, March 17 1914]
64	[Model Village, Clare Hall, Antigua]

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Sir Henry Hesketh Bell Collection

Title	[Model Village, Clare Hall, Antigua]
Reference	Y3011E/64
Creator	Unknown
Extent and Medium	Good condition.

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263 x 210 mm. Showing an area newly laid out with small wooden cottages. This is part of the scheme referred to by Bell in a letter; having made a start of clearing away a 'dirty little rookery, called Hyndman's village, which is quite close to Government House', Bell commenced: 'laying out a 'model village' at Clare Hall, about a mile away from the town, and am hoping to be able to induce a lot of people who are now living in the most awful conditions in the town slums to move up there and start afresh in nice healthy surroundings. I am having a number of nice little cottages built which will be sold to the people on the 'hire-system'. Each will stand on its own plot of ground 50 feet by 100 and I hope that, in time, they will become neat little homesteads .... I can only spend £200 on my village this year, but am hoping to be able to make an appreciable start with that.' (Bell 1913, July 4).

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