clovelly,
formerly paradise pen
The property known mostly as 'Clovelly Park', or just Clovelly, when it was used as a venue for sporting events, has a history going back to the 18th century. Since the 1920s it has been the site of Kingston College.
On a personal note - KC was the first place I worked when I came to Jamaica in 1956, and all my brothers-in-law attended the school. The building shown here, known then as Hardie House, but which had existed under various names from the 1770s, was the first Jamaican building I became familiar with, beyond the house I was living in; it then contained the staff room for the school, where I was privileged to start working along side some very distinguished Jamaican teachers. It is difficult not to list them all, but probably the most impressive was Stafford Isaac Henry, who went on to be the principal of St Andrew Tech, and sadly died before his work for Jamaica was even half completed.
