Through the mists of history … SHELL Fuel Service Station |16 January 2017

Yes, there was once a SHELL Fuel Service Station at Beau Vallon Beach, in the vicinity of where food stalls are presently located. The one next to the Kannu’s Supermarket did not exist then..

Television

Television came to Silhouette island on Saturday August 27, 1983, almost seven months after RTS (Radio Television Seychelles) the former name of SBC, had been launched on Mahé. That was when two RTS technicians installed a 20 inch TV screen and its aerial and a video cassette recorder at La Passe School. The population of Seychelles fourth largest island was then 241 inhabitants, including 61 school children.

Washer women

Until the arrival of washing machines, many women of Seychelles earned their livelihood doing laundry in rivers…and rivers were often the ‘grapevines’ of Seychelles.