Demerara windows were built primarily into 18th- and 19th-century Colonial architecture-styled buildings to cool homes in hot climates, such as Guyana...
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water Demerara River, a river of Guyana Demerara Harbour Bridge on the Demerara River Demerara window, a type of window used in hot climates Demerara is...
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Very high windows in the entrance to a residential building in Ystad Airflow window Architectural glass Crown glass Demerara window Display window Fortochka...
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Louver (redirect from Louvred window)
News. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Haley, Murtland (23 April 2017). "The Demerara Window – the Colonial 'AC'". Kaieteur News. Retrieved 2 June 2018. Dariusz...
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distinctive characteristics such as the Georgian six-paned windows and the Demerara windows. To its east is Promenade Gardens (across Carmichael Street)...
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Jyoti Stambh Deep plan Defensive wall Defensive towers of Cantabria Demerara window Dentil Destruction of country houses in 20th-century Britain Detinets...
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building, has contemporary Scottish cast iron elements and traditional Demerara windows. White Hall is made of natural white limestone of Barbados. Some of...
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staircase". The house combines Barbadian coral stone craftsmanship, Demerara windows,[citation needed] and Brazilian wood panelling. It has a collection...
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steep roofs and Demerara windows. In 1930, the ground floor was enclosed to enlarge office space. In 1950, two stained glass windows were installed over...
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and the small church was relocated at St. Matthew's Parish, East Bank Demerara. The second church was completed in 1842 and became the first cathedral...
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union. Gilbert owned two plantations: Fairfield, a cotton plantation in Demerara, and Mount Pleasant, a sugar plantation on the island of St. Vincent. After...
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self-governance - but said that the "Pandora's Box" of devolution had opened a window to how this could be addressed. Foreign affairs of the overseas territories...
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population, small cafés (or parts of larger establishments) will have small windows, or ventanitas, where Cuban coffee can be ordered. Cuban coffee is often...
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climate. They built row houses which were poorly ventilated with small windows, which was thought as protection against tropical diseases coming from...
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son, married Julia Croal, daughter of the plantation owner John Croal in Demerara. The Admission Register of the Manchester School. Manchester University...
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especially visible in Willemstad, with its steeply pitched gables, large windows and soaring finials. Dutch architecture can also be found in Sri Lanka...
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his short stories. He was born in Cunningsbury St George, Christ Church, Demerara, British Guiana on 20 March 1863, the eldest son of John Locke, bank manager...
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gift from the Demerara Company Limited. The walls of the Parliament Chamber are paneled with mahogany. Floor length shuttered windows allow light and...
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brought the only good quality sand to the United States from the island of Demerara. After the war, England began dumping low–priced glass products in the...
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involved in the transatlantic spice trade. He worked at coffee plantations in Demerara (a Dutch and then British colony in modern Guyana). In 1813, Philip Tinne...
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with the United States in 1858. This ended Dejima's role as Japan's only window on the Western world during the era of national isolation. Since then, the...
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1873) Trade of Demerara, etc. Act 1816 (repealed) 56 Geo. 3. c. 91 26 June 1816 An act to regulate the Trade of the Colonies of Demerara, Berbice and Essequibo;...
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slaves on the sugar plantations of Sir John Gladstone in the colony of Demerara 1812 to 1849". New West Indian Guide. 76 (3/4): 265–269. doi:10.1163/13822373-90002536...
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Russia, Germany, Switzerland, the United States, Barbadoes, St. Vincent, Demerara, the East Indies, besides England and Ireland.' The Royal High School was...
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a collection of 3,021 books. The library building was provided by the Demerara Bauxite Company (DEMBA). In 1950 the Public Free Library introduced a Rural...
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Saint Thomas in 1801, fought at the capture of Saint Lucia, as well as of Demerara and Essequibo in 1803, and the capture of Guadeloupe in 1810. The 2nd then...
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owned five plantations in Demerara and Essequibo growing coffee and sugarcane. One of these plantations was Greenwich Park, Demerara. Her mother was the daughter...
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privateer Pike had captured. Hannah, Connelley, master, had been sailing from Demerara to Bermuda with a cargo of rum and molasses. Lloyd's List reported in July...
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man, McGarel had owned at least 1,000 slaves at a sugar plantation in Demerara in South America, and that part of his wealth had been generated from the...
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delight at growing a beautiful specimen of Myanthus barbatus imported from Demerara, then dismay when the plant flowered the next year as a simple Catasetum...
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