LA LUZ PORT HISTORY PUERTO DE LA LUZ Gran Canaria 1883-2021 |
Sealine with stopover in La Luz Port back in 1929 |
OPCSA Container Terminal |
Fernando de León y Castillo |
Works for the construction of La Luz Port were inaugurated in February 1883 (God Bless Our work) |
Two major coaling companies operating in La Luz Port in the XIX century |
La Luz Port Workers |
Passengers Line (Yeoward Brothers') |
Some of the sealines with stopover in La Luz Port (1929) |
Thomas Miller Swanston (1805-1885) Founder of Miller & Co. |
Women collecting the cochineal in Gran Canaria |
Sir Alfred Jones |
Christopher Columbus |
Launch boat |
Olivia Stone, author of Tenerife and its Seven Satellites |
British Cemetery at Las Palmas |
British Church in Las Palmas |
Mr. Domingo J. Navarro, author of "Memories of a Nonagenarian" |
San Telmo's old dock |
The Titan Crane was used for Las Palmas Port construction |
Elder Demspter Headquarters at Las Palmas |
Loading Bananas |
Tennis Courts in the gardens of Metropole Hotel |
Mr. Mackenzie Ross (British Golf Course Designer) |
British Nurses |
Winston Churchill visit to Gran Canaria in 1959 |
Winston Churchill engaged in conversation with Aristotle Onassis |
A group of tennis players after a tournament at Metropole Hotel |
José Padrón Martín known as "El Sueco" was born in 1907 in La Isleta. He began his career playing in local teams such as Santa Catalina Football Club and Real Club Victoria. Later on he was recruited to play in prominent clubs such as Español F.C., Sevilla F.C. and Barcelona. |
Cricket Players |
Metropole Hotel in Las Palmas |
Santa Catalina Hotel |
Bananas Collectors (Gran Canaria) |
La Luz Port Old Chart |
British Cemetery Headstones |
Seamen's Institute Logo |
Santa Catalina F.C. founded in 1911 |
Marino F.C. founded in 1905 |
Real Club Victoria founded in 1910 |
Unión Marina F.C. |
Basil Miller (1920-2003) wartime naval intelligence officer and later director of Lambert Brothers (shipping) Ltd, the parent company of Miller & Co before the sale to Boluda. |
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