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“...and Spanish
Town having passed with the opening of the railway.
Lady Nugent makes several references to it in her
Journal.1 She visited it on various occasions in 1803,
and wrote :
I was much entertained ; for the Inn is situated on the road
between Kingston and Spanish Town, and it was very diverting
to see the odd figures and extraordinary equipages constantly
passing—kittareens, sulkies, mules, and donkies. Then a host
of gentlemen, who were taking their sangaree in the Piazza ;
and their vulgar buckism amused me very much. Some of
them got half tipsy, and then began petitioning me for my
interest with his Honour—to redress the grievance of one, to
give a place to another, and so forth ; in short it was a picture
of Hogarth. . . .
Spanish Town, the old St. Jago de la Vega, or St.
James of the plain of the Spaniards, was once a town
of considerable importance, and the well-constructed
group of Government Buildings round its central Square
testifies to its former grandeur. The most notable...”
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