Cuthbert Blackman, now in his 77th year, was one of the 10 pioneers in Barbados in 1931, and there were 44 others who shared in the work as time and circumstances permitted.

Today the inhabitants of Barbados are well served by a network of modern roads. In fact, even though described as “21 miles [34 km] long and a smile wide,” the island has 800 miles [1,280 km] of paved or asphalt roads. However, 50 years ago transport was very different from now. There were frequent blind corners in the roads, which were leftovers of a road system that had essentially been designed for the donkey carts of the 17th century. Because of that, Brother Blackman relates, “We were glad enough to have the services of Brother Edwin Hackett’s cart pulled by his faithful horse Harry.”

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Cuthbert Blackman used a horse cart for pioneering