Found in Curepipe, the Royal College laid its first stone on the 1st October 1912 and two years later, on the 12th of January 1914, under the rectorship of Mr Westem Francis Russell the college was inaugurated and the institution was open to all students of the colony at the time. It is also said …
This spot in Curepipe hasn’t aged much from the 1980s till now. Apart from the round-about which has been replaced by traffic lights, the rest is all to all the same. Of course, the cars have been replaced by equivalents of the current generation. This image taken from the Barclays buildings on an early morning …
Seeing Curepipe during these golden old days with all these vintage cars gives the impression of life in a Western city, most of which ressemble this same setting. The Merven Building at the middle, the Royal College of Curepipe on the right and the Currimjee building at the far end are those ‘institutions’ that haven’t …