Abandoned Waterwheel, Speyside, Tobago
Abandoned water wheel at Speyside, on the Atlantic coast of Tobago in the southern Caribbean. April 23, 1999.
The waterwheel lies on the remains of the old Spey Side (sic.) Estate. It was fabricated in Scotland and brought to Tobago to provide power for a once-thriving sugar plantation. According to an eye-witness account described in C. E. R. Alford's 1935 book 'A Guide Book to Tobago", the water wheel and mill machinery was erected in 1871. The walls still stand from the storage areas next to the wheel and this portion was a hotel in the early 1900's, until it burned down in 1970.
Abandoned Waterwheel, Speyside, Tobago
Abandoned water wheel at Speyside, on the Atlantic coast of Tobago in the southern Caribbean. April 23, 1999.
The waterwheel lies on the remains of the old Spey Side (sic.) Estate. It was fabricated in Scotland and brought to Tobago to provide power for a once-thriving sugar plantation. According to an eye-witness account described in C. E. R. Alford's 1935 book 'A Guide Book to Tobago", the water wheel and mill machinery was erected in 1871. The walls still stand from the storage areas next to the wheel and this portion was a hotel in the early 1900's, until it burned down in 1970.