Spanish Town
Spanish Town ( jam, label=Jamaican Creole, Panish Tong) is the capital and the largest town in the parish of St. Catherine in the historic county of Middlesex, Jamaica. It was the Spanish and British capital of Jamaica from 1534 until 1872. Th ...
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Description
Close to Ewarton and Windalco Ewarton works, a large aluminum plant employing many of the local population. Often employing a job share scheme as work in the area is scarce.
It holds a Grand Market celebration each
Christmas Eve
Christmas Eve is the evening or entire day before Christmas Day, the festival commemorating the birth of Jesus. Christmas Day is observed around the world, and Christmas Eve is widely observed as a full or partial holiday in anticipation ...
when people come out and fill the streets, small shops sell toys and other Christmas gifts, and events and parties are held in the square.
It was popularized in the song
Linstead Market
"Linstead Market" is a Jamaican folk song of the mento type that tells of a mother who goes to the market with her ackee fruit but does not sell any, with the result that her children will go hungry.Charlemont High School
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Linstead Primary and Junior High School
Linstead Primary & Junior High is an elementary school in Linstead, Jamaica; one of oldest in the island. Despite several official name changes it has always been colloquially
Colloquialism (), also called colloquial language, everyday language ...
*Dinthill Technical High
*Rosemount Primary and Junior High
* Redwood primary school Victoria All Age *Trinity Preparatory
*Saint Dominic Preparatory School
*Bread of Life Christian Academy
*Mickleton Preparatory
*Victoria Primary
*Wakefield Primary
*McGrath High School
Hedley Jones
Hedley H. G. Jones (12 November 1917 – 1 September 2017) was a Jamaican musician, audio engineer, inventor, trade unionist and writer. He designed and played one of the first solid-bodied electric guitars, designed and built Jamaica's first so ...
- musician
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Leslie Laing
Leslie Alphonso "Les" Laing (19 February 1925 – 7 February 2021) was a Jamaican Athletics (sport), athlete and a winner of gold medal in 4 × 400 m Relay race, relay at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Born in Linstead, Colony of Jamaic ...
- Olympic gold medalist in 4x400 m relay.
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Keith Anthony Morrison
Keith Anthony Morrison, Commander of Distinction (C.D.), born May 20, 1942),"Resume" Keith Anthony Morrison. is a - artist, educator, critic, curator and administrator
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Asafa Powell
Asafa Powell, CD (born 23 November 1982) is a retired Jamaican sprinter who specialised in the 100 metres. He set the 100 metres world record twice, between June 2005 and May 2008 with times of 9.77 and 9.74 seconds. Powell has consiste ...
- athlete
* Arthur Wint - Olympic gold medalist in the 400