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The early Tower Hotel – This was the first Tower Hotel, which became the Post Office after the hotel moved to its present site in Main Street, circa 1880s(?). Both this building and the Assembly Rooms were destroyed in the 1945 fire.

Beckwiths Hotel and Assembly Rooms – To the right are the Assembly Rooms where the Bank of Guyana now is, and to the left, is Beckwiths Hotel where the Hand-in-Hand building was later erected and still stands. The date is 1870, and it seems to be before the building of the first Tower Hotel, which stood on the site of the present Post Office building. Behind the Assembly Rooms was the building owned by the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society, where the National Museum now is.

The Hand in Hand, Tower Hotel… – The Assembly Rooms are to the right, but the Hand-in-Hand building which was constructed between 1878-79 has replaced Beckwiths Hotel. Immediately behind the Hand-in-Hand the first Tower Hotel can be seen. The date may be circa 1890.

The Hand-in-Hand building circa 1905