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Look how we’ve changed!
Special Feature
October 24, 2008

Look how we’ve changed!

How Kingstown has changed! Or has it? Compare these photographs from the early 1900s with those of present day Kingstown.{{more}}

These photographs of Kingstown in the early 20th century are part of a collection of postcards from the Marcos Reilly collection. Reilly is a descendant of the Biddy family which lived in Kingstown in the latter part of the 19th century and early in the 20th century.

Kingstown Police Headquarters today.






Before:  Landing of a contingent at Kingstown on 24th May, 1919, with H.MT.S. Ajax which conveyed them.

After:  Visitors to this country land at the modern cruise ship berth uptown.

Before:  Grenville Street in Kingstown


After:  Grenville Street in Kingstown

Before:  The Kingstown Market.

After:  The Kingstown Vegetable Market.

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