BLAST FROM OUR PAST
Credit : Historian Angelo Bissessarsingh

GOVERNOR JACKSON AND HIS ENTOURAGE VISIT SAN FERNANDO.

On May 25th 1906, Governor Sir Henry Moore Jackson (1904-08) visited San Fernando with his wife and entourage. They were received by Mayor Edghill Johnstone (1906-1908) whose father, Dr. Robert Johnstone was the first Mayor of the Borough in 1853. Governor Jackson and his wife visited the Court House ( the present-day Old Police Station) , inspected the King's Wharf and ended with a function at the Drill Hall (present day location of Naparima Bowl) , the old Town Hall being too small to receive them. Governor Jackson and his party would have journeyed to San Fernando via rail and then proceeded by horse. Note Lady Jackson's full riding veil and the heavy security presence necessitated by the Water Riots only three years before which nearly saw the then governor, Sir Alfred Maloney being burnt alive.