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The Best Attractions In Harrisons

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Harrison College is a co-educational grammar school in Bridgetown, Barbados. Founded in 1733, the school takes its name from Thomas Harrison, a Bridgetown merchant, who intended it to serve as A Public and Free School for the poor and indigent boys of the parish. Even in the nineteenth century it was recognised as perhaps the most prestigious secondary school in the British West Indies, attracting boys from neighbouring islands, including Pelham Warner who later went on to become the Grand Old Man of English cricket. Described as The Eton College of Barbados, since Barbados' independence in 1966, five out of Barbados's seven Prime Ministers have been a...
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  • 5. Andromeda Botanic Gardens Bathsheba
    Andromeda Gardens is a 6-acre botanical garden and attractive tourist attraction in the village of Bathsheba, Saint Joseph in Barbados. It is a scenic park with flowering plants and tropical trees and along with Flower Forest it is one of the most alluring parks on the island. Named from the Greek mythological figure of Andromeda it started as a private plant collection around the home of Iris Bannochie, who was the leading expert on horticulture on the island.Andromeda was first open to the public during a fund raising event hosted by the Barbados Horticultural Society in the 1970s. Andromeda was well received, and has remained open to the public by paid admission since then. Andromeda has over six hundred different species of plants adapted to a range of tropical environments. In 1990, t...
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  • 6. St. Nicholas Abbey Saint Peter Parish
    St. Nicholas Abbey Heritage Railway is a 1.5 kilometres long heritage narrow gauge railway with a 2 ft 6 in gauge, in the parish of Saint Peter on the Eastern Caribbean island of Barbados.
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