I grew up in this little district of Ipswich. My mother was the Post Mistress. I was always hopping the train. Went to the caves and was always walking through the tunnel. Great times!
Awesome video, been to Ipswich once with with my best friend who was born there we were both in our early twenties at the time. Her uncle cooked us wrenta yam and smoked fried tripe one of the best meals I ever had. She is living in Canada. Couldn't resist sharing the video with her. Back then the trains were in operation, we traveled from Montego bay on the 3:30PM Diesel. Wonderful memories 😊🇯🇲🇺🇲
Hi Elite J.A. It was so good of you to go into my mother's birthplace. Most of the people you spoke to in Ipswich are my family and a lot of the commentators are also my family. They are commenting from places all over the world. We love this part of St Elizabeth(my middle name) we spent every summer there my siblings and I, frolicking with my cousins and spending time with our grandparents. My male cousins and brothers have gone through that tunnel many times, I have even ran through it with them(I was afraid the train would meet us in there) my cousins were wiser, they knew the schedule😅. I have not visited Ipswich for years because on my last visit I had such a bad case of motion sickness because of the road, I dare not try it again. I miss there thou, because of my cherish memories. I personally could not understand why the government did not find some simple vehicle that could have traverse on the tracks between 2 or 3 stations allowing people who lived in areas, especially like Ipswich, to uses to get to their homes. This has cause the lost of family agricultural land in these areas that had produced vast amount of produce in the past allowing families to have an income and continue living on the farm's. I was also surprise that my ingenious Jamaicam themselves did not come up with such a vehicle and not allowed the tracks to become so overrun with bushes. I am still waiting for government official to Remembrr that all Jamaica is "🎶MyJamaica🎶. No exclusion when it come to care and upkeep. Elaine saying Hi, from Canada.
Hey I just found you on RUclips as I was searching St Thomas my home town and you have a very interesting video about the lost community mount vernon and I absolutely love it!!!!
RASPECT TO U my brother thanks for your posting this VIDEO so at least our people can see n wonder why is it our successive governments have no VISION to have these things even as some kind of tourist attraction. BLESSED LOVE
Thank you for this video, my father is from Ginger hill & passed away 4 years ago. So it was very emotional for me seeing & remembering things he told me. ~ Peace & Love ~
Good this is great thank so much you have bring back memories to me that’s my home my goodness I am having regrets I should have stayed and build my home I am from Ipswich thank so much for sharing
Hey Alex,how are you.I haven't seen a post in a while. Hope all is well. 🙏🏽🕊💜Thank you for that tour. You needed head lamps for tunnel. Thanks again and stay blessed 🙌 😇
This is the land of my grandfather who pass away in 1977. He was the postmaster at the train station. I am paying the taxes for the land he left behind on behalf of my mother. A land no one has access to. It's a forgotten place. I have had the opportunity to speak to the PM Mr. Holiness about this place and he had promised to look into it. I would love to travel to Jamaica and visit but because of the road situation I cannot. Thank you for highlighting Ipswich .
That’s not salt it’s mycelium. great video by the way, there’s a lot of people interested in railway history and would enjoy watching more content like this, I would personally like to see more historical places in st Elizabeth if that’s possible
What about the Caves of Jamaica? The Rosehall starts with one ending about thirteen miles from the Great house to I think ending at the Saint James Parish Church ,used by the white witch for her journey to church
As a boy took train many times anchovy to Kingston. Anchovy to Stonehenge. Stonehenge station is still in good condition. The bird carvers used to sell to the Appleton tourist train
Well done King. Hope you did not get sick as you were concerned about. You are brave but if no-one ventured, how would we learn, right? How would we me informed about so many things? Obviously, it is not top priority for the officials in charge. I am particularly elated by this presentation as I have family rooted in Ipswich and I had the opportunity to ride the train. There are mixed feeling to look at what individuals must have endured back then in building all of that and how skilled they were. I liked the way you hailed up the people of the community, included them and even promoted them. That's awesome. Shoutout to Mr. Yapp. I must have overlooked your name. But keep doing what you are doing. Bless up.
I can never put into word how much I appreciate your work seeing the train line through these places which I traveled so often from catadupa St James to Kingston I was always wonder what happened to the train lines thank you.
Thanks for sharing. Next time feature Stonehenge the railway station next to Ipswich. As a child the train was the major mode of transportation. Every station had. Vendors coming on selling different goodies. Great memories❤️❤️❤️
Dat is it, my brother ALEXX, excellent i love the vibes my fam honestly, THANKS for the experience i have learn a lot . and i really love my history THANKS MY FAM RESPECT 💯🔯💯
Ipswich is where I grew up it’s a beautiful place in my opinion, at the moment I live London but Ipswich is always in my heart I just Love the place, you were talking to a man who names is Yapp he is my cousin, growing up as kids the tunnels we used to always play in them of course, we used to get out when we hear the trains coming
it is a real sad and shameful thing to see how our countryJamaica is going backwards not forward..no more Kingstion to mobay rail service .no more Jamaican owned and operated airline...
My sister just shared this video with me. This is my community when I was a little girl. A few of the gentlemen in this video I knew when I was a child. I use to take the train to Montego and also to Kingston. It’s sad to see how it is now I had wonderful memories there especially running through that tunnel because you don’t want the train catch you underneath tunnel❤
Love your narration of Ipswich. Truly a historic place, that has been abandoned. I do hope that the road and railroad there fix and restore, so that tourist can traverse as in the pass. I'm from that community, you brought back memories. I had the opportunity to travel through the tunnel a couple of times to an adjacent community, Breadnut Walk. Hope to see your visit to the Ipswich Cave.
Upppp Reminiscing of those days riding on the train and the desel as kids with my parents visiting my Grandparents in Westmoreland, Those were the good old days ,we use to pass through these tunnel's.
Awsome documentary and very good footage. Thanks for the details as I knew of the area but never guessed it is so historic. . I wonder where the source of the water is. 👍 water
I remembered that tunnel it's long. I remembered going through it with a family member from St Elizabeth to Porus dam you took back down to memory lane and yes it's dark.. I screamed going through there.
This is awesome. I'm gonna go there next week. By the way I'm seeing on maps where there is another tunnel nearby called Highworth and one near Breadnut Hill
Good post bro' very good to know the history. As they say you need to know where you are coming from to better appreciate things around you. It is a shame that Jamaican authorities do not preserve these historical structures.. They could be good tourist attractions. As the saying goes "if the leaders have no vision, the people will perish."
I would really love if someone could take the initiative to refurbish these train lines and bring back railway services in Jamaica! That was my dependable mode of transport to & from work in Kingston five days per week in the 80s and probably early 90s!
Thanks for doing these types of videos. Like you I wonder why all these amazing places are left to deteriorate like this. These are places where tourists could be taken and provide earnings for the local community. Come on mayors in these communities do something for the people. Create opportunities for the young people to earn a living and continue to build their country.
My Grandfather’s house was just across the train line opposite the Ipswich train station I use to visit there with my mother as a young girl my grandfather was call mr Blake
Sir, thanks for this trip, as children,our NANNY,took us to BALACLAVE,for a few days,then return,the family there were friends of our family, in CROSS ROADS,, YOU would know, but many do not JAMAICA, was the FIRST,in WEST INDIES,to have a full sized railway,built by the BRITISH,,, STAY WELL God Bless,,🇬🇧🇯🇲🇯🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸
I am happy to realize that I had the experience of travelling through this tunnel several times before our Railway service all because of Political impact,we lost it all.Can China bring it back ,like how they are at Road Highway? Only the good 😊 Lord 🙏 knows.
Drive here before very long route" d entrance, red gate I believe" d road leads back to breadnut walk Ipswich etc it's a series of caves some aren't discovered officially alot of crystals stones are about too
The train lines are in neglect because that type of transport is no longer in use, sad to say! It's a SHAME that these historical sites have not been preserved especially, knowing that Jamaica was the first country in the hemisphere to have trains!
Its a nice distric to live n farm cassava sugar cane yellow yam n cattle that tunnel was my walk to go n catch the train that was our only transportation to n from kingston n to Mobay if the railroad was running we would not have so many accident n less fair
Albert I am merrywood was living at the other end of the Tunnel and a hill quarter mile away from the end the hill non to the ommunity as Smith hill a lot of the workers who were building the at that time live and that it was tarte my grandfather did build long building and rent it to the workers I understand that my Aunt miss Violet Smith bruce who at the Ipswich post office from 1960 until 1980 when broke her hand and finally retired so little children the tunnel was our main to on from the post office especially an a weekend I started as a cooks for the workers who use to maintain track in 1978 then ofter 1980 I started to travel back on fort and the farm workers program that guy that say him use to cook there is one of them who would work while I am away the tunnel is about sixteen chain long and around 16 feet wide. Ofter 1988.89 I did choose to go back and the farm work so I started work on the track to help maintain it until they closed it down in. 1993.
Its a nice place to go n c the touris n we use to make carving out of wood. N all those men we grow up as a young wome n my dad was one of the greatest in carving n my self as a women that my son name on the phone n we wish we could get bk the railroad am not living there still but like to c my distric build up with road we use to get come in by train n road to buy but from the road gone to donkey track everything just stop no cane field foe truck not coming to draw the cane to turnover nice soft cane n other food stuff like banana also by God mercy we r keeping our finger cross to get bk road n its 40 years n said we r voting for nothing🤔🤣
I grew up in this little district of Ipswich. My mother was the Post Mistress. I was always hopping the train. Went to the caves and was always walking through the tunnel. Great times!
Awesome video, been to Ipswich once with with my best friend who was born there we were both in our early twenties at the time. Her uncle cooked us wrenta yam and smoked fried tripe one of the best meals I ever had. She is living in Canada. Couldn't resist sharing the video with her. Back then the trains were in operation, we traveled from Montego bay on the 3:30PM Diesel. Wonderful memories 😊🇯🇲🇺🇲
Hi Elite J.A.
It was so good of you to go into my mother's birthplace.
Most of the people you spoke to in Ipswich are my family and a lot of the commentators are also my family.
They are commenting from places all over the world.
We love this part of St Elizabeth(my middle name) we spent every summer there my siblings and I, frolicking with my cousins and spending time with our grandparents.
My male cousins and brothers have gone through that tunnel many times, I have even ran through it with them(I was afraid the train would meet us in there) my cousins were wiser, they knew the schedule😅.
I have not visited Ipswich for years because on my last visit I had such a bad case of motion sickness because of the road, I dare not try it again.
I miss there thou, because of my cherish memories.
I personally could not understand why the government did not find some simple vehicle that could have traverse on the tracks between 2 or 3 stations allowing people who lived in areas, especially like Ipswich, to uses to get to their homes.
This has cause the lost of family agricultural land in these areas that had produced vast amount of produce in the past allowing families to have an income and continue living on the farm's.
I was also surprise that my ingenious Jamaicam themselves did not come up with such a vehicle and not allowed the tracks to become so overrun with bushes.
I am still waiting for government official to Remembrr that all Jamaica is "🎶MyJamaica🎶.
No exclusion when it come to care and upkeep.
Elaine saying Hi, from Canada.
Hey I just found you on RUclips as I was searching St Thomas my home town and you have a very interesting video about the lost community mount vernon and I absolutely love it!!!!
Thank you for watching
What a refreshing page. History of Jamaica in a unique way. Respect brother.
RASPECT TO U my brother thanks for your posting this VIDEO so at least our people can see n wonder why is it our successive governments have no VISION to have these things even as some kind of tourist attraction. BLESSED LOVE
I'm always excited to see your posts...I hope you stay encouraged and continue to educate us on these hidden sites 🙏
THANKS FOR SHARING.A GREAT JOB. I APPRECIATE YOUR GOOD WORKS.
Thank you for this video, my father is from Ginger hill & passed away 4 years ago. So it was very emotional for me seeing & remembering things he told me.
~ Peace & Love ~
Hi, guys, good to see you again! Will watch this week. Keep up the good work! Love and respect!
I was so excited to see this video I’m from stonehenge I use to take the train enjoy going through those Tunnel
Really enjoy learning about the historical site. Thanks Alex
Good this is great thank so much you have bring back memories to me that’s my home my goodness I am having regrets I should have stayed and build my home I am from Ipswich thank so much for sharing
Hey Alex,how are you.I haven't seen a post in a while. Hope all is well. 🙏🏽🕊💜Thank you for that tour. You needed head lamps for tunnel. Thanks again and stay blessed 🙌 😇
Creativity and craftsmanship! The 👍👏
Another interesting information well 👍appreciated.
I can hear water running. Thanks for bringing such great videos
This is the land of my grandfather who pass away in 1977. He was the postmaster at the train station. I am paying the taxes for the land he left behind on behalf of my mother. A land no one has access to. It's a forgotten place. I have had the opportunity
to speak to the PM Mr. Holiness about this place and he had promised to look into it. I would love to travel to Jamaica and visit but because of the road situation I cannot. Thank you for highlighting Ipswich .
Thank you so much for watching
Wow, must be nastalgic moments for you
@@albertlewis627 it sure was.
Thank you Alex another informative and exciting trek. Long time mon.
That beautiful Jamaica 🇯🇲 I am from Manchester
You are doing a very good job. I didn't no train run in St Elizabeth
I rode through this tunnel when I was 8 9 10 yrs old those were good days and exciting memories
That’s not salt it’s mycelium. great video by the way, there’s a lot of people interested in railway history and would enjoy watching more content like this, I would personally like to see more historical places in st Elizabeth if that’s possible
What about the Caves of Jamaica? The Rosehall starts with one ending about thirteen miles from the Great house to I think ending at the Saint James Parish Church ,used by the white witch for her journey to church
Ok
As a boy took train many times anchovy to Kingston. Anchovy to Stonehenge.
Stonehenge station is still in good condition.
The bird carvers used to sell to the Appleton tourist train
I was going to tell him stonehenge station is In good condition too
Blessings for this video brother,real cultured
Well done King. Hope you did not get sick as you were concerned about. You are brave but if no-one ventured, how would we learn, right? How would we me informed about so many things? Obviously, it is not top priority for the officials in charge. I am particularly elated by this presentation as I have family rooted in Ipswich and I had the opportunity to ride the train. There are mixed feeling to look at what individuals must have endured back then in building all of that and how skilled they were. I liked the way you hailed up the people of the community, included them and even promoted them. That's awesome. Shoutout to Mr. Yapp. I must have overlooked your name. But keep doing what you are doing. Bless up.
I can never put into word how much I appreciate your work seeing the train line through these places which I traveled so often from catadupa St James to Kingston I was always wonder what happened to the train lines thank you.
Thanks for sharing. Next time feature Stonehenge the railway station next to Ipswich. As a child the train was the major mode of transportation. Every station had. Vendors coming on selling different goodies. Great memories❤️❤️❤️
I rember the same in plum st james
Dat is it, my brother ALEXX, excellent i love the vibes my fam honestly, THANKS for the experience i have learn a lot . and i really love my history THANKS MY FAM RESPECT 💯🔯💯
Very interesting. One love.
Ipswich is where I grew up it’s a beautiful place in my opinion, at the moment I live London but Ipswich is always in my heart I just Love the place, you were talking to a man who names is Yapp he is my cousin, growing up as kids the tunnels we used to always play in them of course, we used to get out when we hear the trains coming
it is a real sad and shameful thing to see how our countryJamaica is going backwards not forward..no more Kingstion to mobay rail service .no more Jamaican owned and operated airline...
Nufflove and Raspec Godking fi dis, sumting new fimi to knw nuff Guide king.💯🇯🇲🇨🇦❤🙌🏾
You bought back memories, I remember riding on the train from Ipswich to the last stop, where we disembark. Thanks for this, I l was only 8 years old.
My sister just shared this video with me. This is my community when I was a little girl. A few of the gentlemen in this video I knew when I was a child. I use to take the train to Montego and also to Kingston. It’s sad to see how it is now I had wonderful memories there especially running through that tunnel because you don’t want the train catch you underneath tunnel❤
As a child I ran through the tunnel also but because I did not want to be under there too long for duppy to catch me!
Another amazing trip. These are very educational. Thank You!
Thank you for watching
U are very brave guy thanks for your bravens❤
I've never been under a tunnel since the train stop running. I was born and grown in the nearby community of merrywood
Love your narration of Ipswich. Truly a historic place, that has been abandoned. I do hope that the road and railroad there fix and restore, so that tourist can traverse as in the pass. I'm from that community, you brought back memories. I had the opportunity to travel through the tunnel a couple of times to an adjacent community, Breadnut Walk. Hope to see your visit to the Ipswich Cave.
Truly inspirational so much lost history in Jamaica, would love to partake in one of those tour.
Upppp Reminiscing of those days riding on the train and the desel as kids with my parents visiting my Grandparents in Westmoreland, Those were the good old days ,we use to pass through these tunnel's.
Ratid look wae mi used to walk go a river 5× a day ,bless up my elite 👌
Thank u 🙏
Awsome documentary and very good footage. Thanks for the details as I knew of the area but never guessed it is so historic. . I wonder where the source of the water is. 👍 water
I remembered that tunnel it's long. I remembered going through it with a family member from St Elizabeth to Porus dam you took back down to memory lane and yes it's dark.. I screamed going through there.
I live in St Ann and I am 55 I never get to ride the train. Wish I had gotten a chance thanks for this video
This is awesome. I'm gonna go there next week. By the way I'm seeing on maps where there is another tunnel nearby called Highworth and one near Breadnut Hill
Yes I heard about that one while doing this
@@EliteJamaica Great
Big up jon
Good post bro' very good to know the history. As they say you need to know where you are coming from to better appreciate things around you. It is a shame that Jamaican authorities do not preserve these historical structures.. They could be good tourist attractions. As the saying goes "if the leaders have no vision, the people will perish."
I would really love if someone could take the initiative to refurbish these train lines and bring back railway services in Jamaica! That was my dependable mode of transport to & from work in Kingston five days per week in the 80s and probably early 90s!
Great me born a Jamaica and don’t kown these places 🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲
This is my mom birthplace love it here some of my family still live there
bat guano is $10 US per pound on amazon-- just saying-- sometimes people don't see the diamonds in their back yard. Great organic fertilizer.
A place the same in mafoota plum pj r
1:46 is the exploration licence Geophysx Jamaica Limited a local mineral exploration company. So that marks one corner of their boundary.
They just signed a big contract with Barrick looking for copper on that site.
Big up ginger hill st best ❤
I TRAVELLED FROM KENDAL TO MONTEGO BAY. FOR ONE YEAR IN 1976.
Thanks for doing these types of videos. Like you I wonder why all these amazing places are left to deteriorate like this. These are places where tourists could be taken and provide earnings for the local community. Come on mayors in these communities do something for the people. Create opportunities for the young people to earn a living and continue to build their country.
Thank you
is there any way you could bring this to the tourist industry so they can restore some of these finding and keep it as a tourist attraction
Big up rabbi
Travel through this tunnel countless times from old harbour to montego bay
My Grandfather’s house was just across the train line opposite the Ipswich train station
I use to visit there with my mother as a young girl my grandfather was call mr Blake
Sir, thanks for this trip, as children,our NANNY,took us to BALACLAVE,for a few days,then return,the family there were friends of our family, in CROSS ROADS,, YOU would know, but many do not JAMAICA, was the FIRST,in WEST INDIES,to have a full sized railway,built by the BRITISH,,, STAY WELL God Bless,,🇬🇧🇯🇲🇯🇲🇺🇸🇺🇸
Uu
What kind of torch you talked about,is it connected to the railway company?.
I use to Carrie market basket for my mom through that tunnel train stopped me under it when I was a little girl
Big up earnel.
That my home town where i was born my mom and dad home town
Thank God u find my distric n worse without good road badly n its a forming district but no road worse minister we have there
who is the MPP?
Is this path the road you turn on when going to ginger hill from YS falls?
I am happy to realize that I had the experience of travelling through this tunnel several times before our Railway service all because of Political impact,we lost it all.Can China bring it back ,like how they are at Road Highway? Only the good 😊 Lord 🙏 knows.
Omg watch my home town . Ipswich.. nth like home
Drive here before very long route" d entrance, red gate I believe" d road leads back to breadnut walk Ipswich etc it's a series of caves some aren't discovered officially alot of crystals stones are about too
When are you going back next i would like to go...
We on this side of Jamaica never get to ride the train
The train lines are in neglect because that type of transport is no longer in use, sad to say! It's a SHAME that these historical sites have not been preserved especially, knowing that Jamaica was the first country in the hemisphere to have trains!
Yes, I travel to the tunnel
Its a nice distric to live n farm cassava sugar cane yellow yam n cattle that tunnel was my walk to go n catch the train that was our only transportation to n from kingston n to Mobay if the railroad was running we would not have so many accident n less fair
Check out church in the wild woods
To my knowledge water use to drip but not so much
These are proven evidence that politicians mashed up Jamaica
I want some turtles. Wow. He do a lot.
You can contact him at the number
I go there before at school
Albert
I am merrywood was living at the other end of the Tunnel and a hill quarter mile away from the end the hill non to the ommunity as Smith hill a lot of the workers who were building the at that time live and that it was tarte my grandfather did build long building and rent it to the workers I understand that my Aunt miss Violet Smith bruce who at the Ipswich post office from 1960 until 1980 when broke her hand and finally retired so little children the tunnel was our main to on from the post office especially an a weekend I started as a cooks for the workers who use to maintain track in 1978 then ofter 1980 I started to travel back on fort and the farm workers program that guy that say him use to cook there is one of them who would work while I am away the tunnel is about sixteen chain long and around 16 feet wide. Ofter 1988.89 I did choose to go back and the farm work so I started work on the track to help maintain it until they closed it down in. 1993.
They need to Restore the train and bring back the transportation of the Railroad
Any one from Ipswich that know Madeline living in the May Pen area please let me know. Please and thank you.
You dah gi mi something wa dah gaon
I travel through the tunnel
Its a nice place to go n c the touris n we use to make carving out of wood. N all those men we grow up as a young wome n my dad was one of the greatest in carving n my self as a women that my son name on the phone n we wish we could get bk the railroad am not living there still but like to c my distric build up with road we use to get come in by train n road to buy but from the road gone to donkey track everything just stop no cane field foe truck not coming to draw the cane to turnover nice soft cane n other food stuff like banana also by God mercy we r keeping our finger cross to get bk road n its 40 years n said we r voting for nothing🤔🤣
Guy you must be careful. Those old Places could have osbestos
Just lost the station in Port Antonio to fire .
Look at all the places Elite find then JAMAICAN MAP IS IN COMPLETE
I hear the waterdrop
I know that place
My root s st Elizabeth my mom country
The low valley
No
You are no too far from the train lie bridge
no
We still afraid of duppy you licki
Just take a sample of water and test for salt!
Lol