Pointe-a-Pierre
| dc.date.accessioned | 2010-05-11T14:32:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2010-05-11T14:32:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010-05-11T14:32:34Z | |
| dc.description | Colour: Black and White; Style: Landscape; Other: Bordered; Undivided | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Pointe-a-Pierre located north of San Fernando, south of Claxton Bay and on coast of the Gulf of Paria is highlighted in this vintage photograph. The San Fernando Hill in the background here looks like a mound with a flattened top but by the end of the 1970s had a different shape and was about a third of its original size, due to heavy mining. This Pointe-a-Pierre area used to be noted for its thriving sugar estates. However, in 1913, an oil company called Trinidad Leaseholds Limited bought all the estate lands and a modest oil refinery and oil storage deposit were established. Pointe-a-Pierre grew to become one of the most vital refineries in the western hemisphere. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Funding for this project has been provided by Mrs. Irma E. Goldstraw. | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2139/7162 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.rights | Please contact the Main Library, The University of the West Indies for permission to use the digitized images. wimail@sta.uwi.edu | en |
| dc.subject | Trinidad and Tobago | en |
| dc.subject | Postcards | en |
| dc.subject | Petroleum industry and trade--Trinidad and Tobago | en |
| dc.subject | Oil storage tanks--Trinidad and Tobago | en |
| dc.subject | Petroleum refineries --Trinidad and Tobago | en |
| dc.subject | Mountains--Trinidad and Tobago | en |
| dc.subject | Cities and towns--Trinidad and Tobago--Point-a-Pierre | en |
| dc.subject | Paria, Gulf of (Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago) | en |
| dc.subject.other | Naparima Hill (Trinidad and Tobago) | en |
| dc.subject.other | San Fernando Hill (Trinidad and Tobago) | en |
| dc.title | Pointe-a-Pierre | en |
| dc.type | Image | en |