Berkeley Memorial

The story behind the place

At the centre of the Circus in Basseterre, the Berkeley Memorial combines a clock with a drinking fountain. It was erected in 1883 and made by George Smith and Co of Glasgow. Look from the small stone steps up through the slender columns to the clock faces. The monument commemorates Thomas Berkeley Hardtman Berkeley, a legislator and plantation owner; its decorative ironwork is also a link between Caribbean civic spaces and Scottish foundries.

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