Places - Lost in Time: Plymouth, Montserrat

Hello, and welcome back to Places - Lost in Time, a series that looks back on the tale of places and locations that have existing within living memory or photographic record, but are now lost to the pages of history.

In this episode, we turn our attention on the small island of Montserrat in the Caribbean, looking back on the history of this tiny nation and the rise of its capital city Plymouth in the years before its sudden and untimely demise during the 1995 to 1997 Soufrière Hills volcanic eruption.

Chapters:

0:00 - Introduction
0:54 - Discovering a Caribbean Jewel
4:04 - The Rough and the Smooth
8:25 - Glory Days
11:23 - The Trouble Starts
15:08 - Fire Down Below
20:09 - An Island Cataclysm
26:10 - Conclusion

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References:
- The Eruption of Soufrière Hills Volcano, Montserrat, from 1995 to 1999
edited by Timothy H. Druitt, B. Peter Kokelaar (I thoroughly recommend reading this, it's a fascinating insight into the chain of events surrounding this eruption)
- British Library (and their respective references)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)