13-09-2017, 01:33 PM
(This post was last modified: 13-09-2017, 01:56 PM by Oxford Jack.)
I visited St.Helena in 1999, at the time only accessible by sea. I remembered that in fact nearly all the shops belong to the Soloman enterprise. I looked out the photos and here is one of those premises named after him I suppose.
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The only public transport on the island was this 1929, I believe, Cadillac charabanc, which seated 12 plus driver. I did not think to ask about Austin 7's.
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In 2009 when travelling through Argentina by Austin 7, we stopped in Ushuaia for a few days and frequented a bar and restaurant that had been a general store in times past, it is still there, serving Cape Horn Bitter Beer and is called Soloman's Bar, I wonder if there is any connection?
Following our three day stop in St.Helena, we sailed on to Ascension Island, about a week away and spent two days, the maximum allowed, exploring the island and visiting the Museum there. There were photos of an Austin 7 which had been there in, I think, the 20's and had reached the highest point on the Island and explored widely in the rather desolate and rough interior. This story was I believe the subject of a former thread on the Forum, I tried hard to find the whereabouts of the car, through the Museum email address, without success. I have a hazy memory of it having been bought/snaffled and repatriated by Service Personnel, perhaps someone will know the answer to that.
As an aside, most of the help on the domestic staff on Ascension are from St.Helena.
st.Helena 1.jpg (Size: 141.32 KB / Downloads: 161)
The only public transport on the island was this 1929, I believe, Cadillac charabanc, which seated 12 plus driver. I did not think to ask about Austin 7's.
st.Helena 2.jpg (Size: 144.61 KB / Downloads: 161)
In 2009 when travelling through Argentina by Austin 7, we stopped in Ushuaia for a few days and frequented a bar and restaurant that had been a general store in times past, it is still there, serving Cape Horn Bitter Beer and is called Soloman's Bar, I wonder if there is any connection?
Following our three day stop in St.Helena, we sailed on to Ascension Island, about a week away and spent two days, the maximum allowed, exploring the island and visiting the Museum there. There were photos of an Austin 7 which had been there in, I think, the 20's and had reached the highest point on the Island and explored widely in the rather desolate and rough interior. This story was I believe the subject of a former thread on the Forum, I tried hard to find the whereabouts of the car, through the Museum email address, without success. I have a hazy memory of it having been bought/snaffled and repatriated by Service Personnel, perhaps someone will know the answer to that.
As an aside, most of the help on the domestic staff on Ascension are from St.Helena.