The Guyana Booth at the World Expo in Shanghai during October last year was a huge attraction and created much interest with its display of the country’s unique heritage. This Nostalgia buff has always been proud of our national exhibits at foreign trade shows, etc, and recall excellent displays in the sixties in Canada, even though our star attraction, Millie the talking macaw, had to be repatriated when the exhibition opened. Millie picked up every ’cuss word from the carpenters erecting our booth and by opening day his vocabulary was worse than the local street character – ‘Walker the British.’ Alya remember him?
Recently viewing the National Archives exhibition on Homestretch Avenue, I was impressed with the display of the souvenir programme, ‘British Guiana at Wembley 1924,’ and this Nostalgia Buff seizes the opportunity to share from his private collection some of the forty pictures of our indigenous industries that our government displayed at Wembley in the British Empire Exhibition. I must give thanks here also to the Antique Shop, 85 Quamina Street