General
Useful contacts:
Name: Sunbury Plantation House
Address: off Hwy 5, N of Six Cross Rds, before St Philip's Church St.Philip
Admission: Full 15.00 Barbados Dollar Child 7.50 Barbados Dollar
Telefax: 246 423 6270
Web: www.barbadosgreathouse.com
Built between 1660 and 1670, the handsome Sunbury Plantation House was painstakingly restored after a 1995 fire. The house has 2ft-thick (60cm) walls built of local coral blocks and ballast stones, the latter from the ships that set sail from England to pick up Barbadian sugar.
Name: Barbados Museum
Address: St.Ann's Garrison St.Michael S of Bridgetown
Admission: Full 11.50 Barbados Dollar Child 5.75 Barbados Dollar
Telefax: 246 427 0201
Web: www.barbmuse.org.bb
Housed in an early 19th-century military prison, this museum has engaging displays on all aspects of the island's history, with good treatment of the colonial era, slavery, emancipation and military history. There's also an African culture gallery and a children's gallery.
Name: Welchman Hall Gully
Address: Hwy 2 northeast of Bridgetown St Thomas
Admission: Full 11.50 Barbados Dollar Child 5.75 Barbados Dollar
Telefax: 246 438 6671
Welchman Hall Gully is a thickly wooded ravine with a walking track and nearly 200 species of lush tropical plants. Gullies like this were virtually the only places planters were unable to cultivate, and thus represent an important remnant of the forest that covered Barbados before the arrival of English settlers.

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