OVERWHELMING.
That, says vice-president of the Barbados Garrison Historical Consortium, Peter Stevens, has been the response to one of the island’s newest attractions, the Garrison Tunnels.
The 200-year-old British engineering feature, which was initially built to drain what was then a marshy, swampy Garrison quagmire, was later used to convoy people, dead or otherwise, and as a potential escape route should the island be overrun by an invading force.
The tunnels were rediscovered in 2011 and, after three years – the time it took to get the necessary approvals, to pass all safety regulations and to construct new entry and exit points – a stretch of just over 200 feet of a 3 200-foot-long tunnel was opened to the public in 2014. (HLE)
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