Exhibition: Fire-Fighters, 1893…

The Blue Penny Museum at Caudan, Port Louis, will soon be hosting an exhibition on the history of fire-fighters, and the fire brigade, on the island of Mauritius. This remarkable institution, which has been of great service to the islanders and country dates from the very end of the 19th century, to a time when a great fire, in 1893, ravaged parts of the city of Port Louis. Through locally crafted tools to the latest...