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All footage contributed by Sooty 1312. Set to some of Lionel Belasco’s music this pleasant sequence brings us memories of the Benedictine Monastery at St. Augustine. Almost a self contained city in itself, the Benedictine monks administered a Seminary, a boarding school (The Abbey School), their monastery, a senior’s residence, a guest house, a farm, beehives, bakeries and the like. Today it is but a shadow of its former glory, with the boarding school closed and recently, the Seminary closing, sending its few remaining seminarians to Jamaica.

Mt. St. Benedict was a popular destination for day visitors as well and many locals came here to picnic. Not the Indian family relaxing with their lunch just behind their two tone Ford Consul with the wide whitewall tires.

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All footage contributed by Sooty1312. Anyone that’s visited Trinidad since the arrival of the Americans in 1941 knows this road and its beautiful scenery very well. From the entrance pillars to the fresh water fountain to the amazing lookout these lovely shots will certainly evoke some bittersweet memories of family life in colonial Trinidad. This road was built by American SeaBees (Construction Battalions) early in WW2 to compensate Trinidadians for the loss of their bathing beaches when the U.S. Naval Station was built at Chaguaramas. Some of these same scenes can be seen in my film Trinidad 1948.

One thing I have never seen before though is the beautiful rainbow captured by the cameraman!

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