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A sketch of Bathurst, published in 1824 Senior Medical Officers' quarters in Bathurst, Gambia. Photograph, c. 1911. Bathurst [Banjul] 1:2,500 (6.6 MB) and city center Surveyed in 1910-11 and partly Revised in 1918 by W.F. Crook, reprinted by Engineer Reproduction Plant, U.S. Army War College 1941 Arch 22 at the entrance to
The Banjul Ferry Terminal, located in Half Die. Half Die (known as Bathurst during the colonial era) is an area within Banjul, the capital of The Gambia. It was also known as Mocam Town, Moka Town, or Wildman Town. [1] [2] During the colonial period the area was noted for being flooded repeatedly, and was the home to the poorer sections of the ...
Bathurst was renamed Banjul, and on 9 May 1974, he became Bishop of Banjul. [2] [3] From 1975 to 1977, he was president of Inter-territorial Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Gambia and Sierra Leone. [3] He retired on 14 November 1980 [1] due to ill health and in 1981 retired to the Holy Ghost Fathers home, Kimmage Manor. Moloney died on 31 ...
Cham Joof was born on 22 October 1924 at 7 Griffith Street (Half-Die) in Bathurst now Banjul, the capital of the Gambia.He came from a Serer and Wolof background. He was the third child and the eldest son of Ebrima Joof (1887–1949) and Aji Anna Samba (1896 – 9 April 1977).
On 7 September 1946, a British South American Airways Avro 685 York I with registration G-AHEW, named "Star Leader", flying from London to Buenos Aires via Lisbon, Bathurst (Banjul)-Jeshwang, Natal, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont and Montevideo, lost control and crashed shortly after takeoff from Bathurst. The cause of the loss of control cannot ...
In the ensuing years, Bathurst (now Banjul) was at times under the jurisdiction of the British Governor-General in Sierra Leone. In 1888, The Gambia became a separate colony. [33] An agreement between Britain and France in 1889 established the boundaries of the colony.
Civil war in Baddibu begins in 1877. First issue of The Bathurst Observer and West African Gazette in 1883. J. D. Richards appointed as first African member of the Legislative Council in 1883. Cornelius Alfred Moloney CMG (1848–1913) 3 March 1884 December 1885 – Colonial Secretary of Lagos (1879–1884) Gilbert Thomas Carter α CMG (1848 ...
Bathurst → Banjul (1973) [1] Georgetown → Janjanbureh; James Island → Kunta Kinteh Island (2011) [2] MacCarthy Island → Janjanbureh Island (1995) See also.