Youthman Promotion crew- 1 Robert Crescent Kingston Jamaica April 1986.
Lincoln ‘Sugar’ Minott’s house at 1 Robert Crescent Kingston Jamaica Home to the Youthman Promotion Sound System and crew. April 1986.
Bar Spanish Town Jamaica - 2002
A bar on the backstreets of Spanish Town, Jamaica. 2002.
Card players Spanish Town Jamaica - 2002
Card players in a house on the backstreets of Spanish Town, Jamaica. 2002.
Rastafarian repatriation rally. Kingston Jamaica 2002.
Rastafarian repatriation rally Half Way Tree Kingston Jamaica 2002.
Rastaman St Ann Jamaica
‘Rastafarian yard’ Landovery, St Ann, Jamaica 1986.
Playing Bingo with stones, Spanish Town, Jamaica, 1986.
Playing bingo with stones, Waterloo, Saint Catherine, Jamaica. April 1986.
Aquarius record store, Half Way Tree, Kingston Jamaica. 1986
Aquarius records on Constant Spring Road in Halfway Tree Kingston, Jamaica, was owned by Lloyd and Daphne Chin-Loy. When this photo was taken in the mid 1980s the shop was a hive of activity and before the transportation hub was built much later, it was also the main transportation point for most routes across the Kingston at that time. The gates on the left of the photo were the entrance to the recording studio, and at one time was one of the most important in Jamaica. Artists who have passed through the gates include Augustus Pablo, Bob Marley, Jimmy Cliff, Beres Hammond and Ernest Ranglin. Dancehall DJ Tiger had his first job in the Aquarius store and Bunny Wailer recorded and mixed his seminal album ‘Blackheart Man’ at the studios in 1975. Also Sugar Minott, Earl Sixteen, Little Roy and Triston Palmer, recorded in the studio. Aquarius was on a strip with ‘KG’s’ appliance and electronics store, along with Skateland, skating rink; and Miami Store, which sold the latest style and fashions from the USA. Music would play from speakers outside the store, including the latest 7’inch Jamaican releases before they were played on the radio. Kingston Jamaica. 1986.
Alfa Boys School Kingston Jamaica, 2002.
A rainy Sunday evening at ‘Alpha Boys' Roman Catholic boarding school. Established in 1880 as a "school for wayward boys and orphaned children", and quickly became renowned for both the discipline it instilled in its pupils and the outstanding musical tuition they received. The institution was responsible for many of Jamaica’s great jazz, ska and reggae musicians who passed through its gates including Dizzy Reece, Cedric Brooks and the Skatalites's Tommy McCook, Johnny 'Dizzy' Moore, Lester Sterling, Don Drummond and Yellow Man, all who passed through its gates. Sister Mary Ignatius the nun who ran the music department at the school for 64 years, died in 2003. In 2014 the school residence closed down and the Alpha Institute replaced it, providing vocational training for inner city youth. Kingston Jamaica 2002.