A BUILDING that was once owned by the Quakers of Bridgetown, the Methodists and by the Barbados Telephone Company will soon be disappearing from the City landscape.
Demolition work on the building at the junction of Lucas and Coleridge Streets started last night and was scheduled to continue over the next two weekends until completed.
It has been up for sale at a cost of $8 million for a number of years.
Yesterday, workmen from a construction company were busy gutting the inside of the three-storey building in preparation for its destruction.
It could not be ascertained to whom or if the building had been sold.
The complex dates back, according to the second edition of author Morris Greenidge’s book Bridgetown Barbados – A Walking Tour, to the 1880s when the Barbados Telephone Company moved there from Swan Street.
The site was previously the home of the Albert Hall Theatre and, before that, part of property confiscated from the Quakers who were chased out of Barbados after campaigning for the rights of the enslaved population. (HLE)
