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You are cordially invited to contact us by telephone or whats app Gabriele 7155465, for history, details of the Heritage sites, itineraries.

This NPOS was operational in Tobago from 2018 but formally registed in 2020 as a civil society organization responsible for the preservation of Tobago's archaelogical and historical built assets. I will be very glad to show you our old and present maps of the island of Tobago. In a few days, with the hopefully lifting of Covid restrictions, we will be able to reopen our exhibit which can be viewed at our location on the same compound where La Tartaruga Italian Restaurant is located, opposite the Buccoo Integrated Facility.

31/10/2026

The opening on the north side of the Kilgwyn Mill Walls, Parish St. Patrick’s, Tobago. In 1811 this estate comprised 200 acres in cultivation to produce sugar and rum. The source of power for the mill was wind.

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

26/10/2026

Photo of a cast iron pan “copper” taken in the Easternfield Road area, Mason Hall, Tobago. THCS have interviewed and documented “butchers” and their trade: details and exhibits at the Museum Buccoo.
Whatsapp (868)7155465

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

21/10/2026

Coleton Fishacre, Kingswear, Devon, England.

Tobago Heritage Conservation Society (THCS) team members visited this evocative 1920s house built with stone quarried house; set in an
RHS-accredited garden with walks down to Pudcombe Cove and inspiring sea views.

This country home was built in 1926 for Rupert D’Oyly Carte (owner of the Savoy Hotel) and his wife Lady Dorothy.

THCS has been working on a project based on the book “Deep Indigo” recently published by the author Elizabeth Cadiz Topp M.A. which talks about the life of Lady Dorothy who separated from the husband and moved to Tobago.

In a private archive in Dartmoor we have been able to gather details about the history of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company.

The project will be available for viewing at the Museum Buccoo Whatsapp (868) 7155465.

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

20/10/2026

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20/10/2026

The “Cast iron pan - copper” that was located at the entrance of the Tobago Historical Park and Nature Center, has been illegally removed.
Any assistance to locate it is greatly appreciated. W/app 7155465.

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

17/10/2026

Tobago Heritage Conservation Society team members are visiting Birmingham, to study how a small village with a market established in the 12th century transformed into a prosperous manufacturing town.

The variety of trades in the medieval town attracted migrants from across the region and some of the best thinkers and manufacturers of the age creating unique opportunities for the economy.

By the end of the 17th century Birmingham was known for its metal manufacturers profiting from the production of hundreds of thousands of cheaply produced guns, brass manillas, and leg irons which were sold in the trafficking of enslaved African people, and from the import of raw materials produced through the labour of enslaved people.

Birmingham became an industrial powerhouse, exporting its products around the world: Midlands Regiments stationed in the Caribbean use Birmingham-made guns to keep order on the plantations; steam engines for sugar plantations; buttons; brass; glass for churches, candle-holder for lamps.

Birmingham also became a hub for activism associated with the abolition of transatlantic slavery.

Details of what has been documented during this visit to Birmingham and its relations to the island of colonial Tobago, will be available at the
Museum Buccoo, (868) 7155465 - Curator: Gabriele De Gaetano.

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

16/10/2026

Built on Cotton - The Liverpool Cotton Exchange

Tobago Heritage Conservation Society team members are in Liverpool to gather more details on the trade of cotton during the colonial era.

In the 17th century, cotton came into Britain through London from the Middle East. In the 18th century, the new plantations in the West Indies, Brazil and America started to grow cotton. Liverpool had existing trade links with these areas, and so cotton began to arrive in the Mersey.

Cotton was the largest and most important trade in the city, accounting for almost half of the imports and exports that went through the port.
By 1795 Liverpool would permanently overtake London as the leading British cotton importer.

Tobago was among the exporter of cotton: records show for 1780
“Grand total for the all island” crop expected: Cotton 1518220 lbs.
(THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO.
Publication No 681 - Source:- Public Record Office. State Papers Colonial. C. 0. 101/24 - Published by the courtesy of the Master of the Rolls and the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records.
Tobago, 4th July 1780).

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

14/10/2026

Vintage house along the Northside road, Scarborough, Tobago.

In vernacular architecture, a most striking decorative feature around windows, porches and eaves is the classic use of ornate, wooden decorative fretwork. In fact, it is this feature that coined the term “Gingerbread” houses.

A great number of vintage houses have been documented in Tobago and can be viewed at the Museum Buccoo, whatsapp (868)7155465.

Photo credit Gabriele de Gaetano
Tobago Heritage Conservation Society

Address

Buccoo Main Road, Upstairs La Tartaruga Italian Restaurant
Buccoo

Telephone

+18687155465

Website

http://www.latartarugatobago.com/

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