The once magnificent Town Hall of Curepipe laid its first stone at its current location on the 4th of February 1902 by governor Sir Charles Bruce. The story behind the building somehow dates since earlier than the year of its foundation and construction at Curepipe. We must somehow understand that during the late 19th Century, …
This view of Curepipe taken at the top of the ‘Barclays’ building during the 1950s reveals a very clean and calm Curepipe with very few traffic. The Municipal Library at the near middle of the picture and at the extreme mid left the Municipal lake which was then still very much admired. The house in …
For those who have been able to enjoy Port Louis in the 1970s will certainly remember this scene, when a lot of those old buildings still stood. On the bottom right we have the Port Louis Town Hall (the new one actually) and the Municipal Theatre on the bottom left. In front of the Town …
Images of Quatre Bornes in the past are among the rare ones that can be seen. Even though the town doesn’t talk much about itself nor there are many interesting places to talk about either, it still remains a very nice region to live in. Found in between Vacoas/Phoenix and Rose Hill, the climate is the …
The town hall of Port Louis was constructed around late 1960s (or early 1970s) to replace the old colonial town hall prevailing before that. A matter of hapiness or deception for some to see the old one gone and replaced by this new one is an opinion that will vary. This current building is still …
The Old Town Hall of Port Louis was a colonial building during the British rule and to which the architecture was overmatched by the current town hall. Back in 1945, after the World War 2 Victory, the building was decorated with capital ‘V’s to show the Mauritian participation in the War. And to say, Mauritius …
The Curepipe Town Hall viewed from the top of the St Therese Church during the late 1960s and interesting fact that the Old Train Station was still visible then, even though it was more or less used at the bus station after the last trains of 1964. The Town Hall was at that time in …
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