The Martello Tower Museum

Mauritius, La Preneuse beach, Martello Tower visit.

This is our visit to Black River and specifically the Martello tower there.

These towers are an important part of our history and culture. Let’s go back to the beginning of the 19th century after Mauritius was captured by the British. Slavery was being abolished. Free labour was coming to an end. What would happen to the economy based on sugar cane?

The British were worried about a French insurrection.

The British decided to build 5 of these fortresses alongside the West coast to protect the island. The coastal batteries were erected at strategic locations near river mouths.

They were built with basalt rock. Royal engineers were commissioned together with skilled stone cutters from India and carpenters. As usual slaves were used for heavy labour. Their task was to erect sand dunes called batteries in front of the towers.
Two cannons were installed on the flat roof top.These could be rotated through 360 degrees.

The construction of the 5 towers took three years .

These fortresses don’t have doors on the ground floor. One had to climb a ladder to an opening on the first floor. Once there a ladder was used to reach the ground floor.

There are interesting memorabilia on display. Muskets, the officer’s deck and uniform, a fire place with various utensils and much more.

Photos of the inside are only allowed for private use. You’ll have to see this gem for yourself when you are on holiday in Mauritius.

Well worth a visit!
The video was edited by (Sunny) Vivek Sadasing

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Mauritius. Tyack village, the Sookdeo Bisoondoyal museum. This is the guy featured on the RS500 note

We discovered this museum by stopping in Tyack in the south of Mauritius. The fascinating aspect was the fact that we discovered Mr Bisoondoyal on the Rs500 . He was born in this house in 1908 and the house takes you back to how live must have been in Mauritius in the early 1900's. His grandparents came to Mauritius as indentured laborers to work on the cane fields from India. And as a third generation Mauritian he rose to sit in parliament.

An interesting fact was that he staged some revolts against Apartheid in South Africa by taking bullock carts to the streets of Port Louis. For this he landed up in jail several times.

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The video was edited by (Sunny) Vivek Sadasing

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The Sookdeo Bissoondoyal Memorial Museum is located on the main road in the village of Tyack, Rivière des Anguilles. It is found in the house where Sookdeo Bissoondoyal was born. This simple building is basically rectangular, made of stone walls and covered with corrugated iron sheets. The Sookdeo Bissoondoyal Memorial Museum was inaugurated by Sir Anerood Jugnauth, then Prime Minister in the presence of Sir Veerasamy Ringadoo, Governor General and Armoogum Parsuramen, Minister of Education, Arts and Culture on 3 April 1987.

The mission of the Sookdeo Bissoondoyal Memorial Museum is to perpetuate the memory of the person after whom it has been named. It informs the public about the life and work of Sookdeo Bissoondoyal as a great leader who contributed towards the independence of Mauritius and the education of the poor, especially the Indo-Mauritian.

Sookdeo Bissoondoyal was born on 25 December 1908 at Tyack, Rivière des Anguilles. He acquired his primary education at the Young Men's Hindu Aided Primary School in Port Louis. After passing his Teacher's Examination, he worked as Primary School Teacher from 1923 to 1945. In 1946, he became active in the political field and on 10 August 1948 Sookdeo Bissoondoyal was elected to the Legislative Council in the constituency of Grand Port/Savanne. On 13 April 1958 he founded a political party, the Independent Forward Bloc. Sookdeo Bissoondoyal was appointed Minister of Local Government and of Cooperative Movement. In 1965, he attended the Constitutional Conference in London leading towards the independence of Mauritius in 1968. He joined the Independence Party which won the general elections in 1967. He became Minister of Cooperatives. He resigned from the Council of Ministers on 21 March 1969 due to a disagreement on some issues with the Prime Minister, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam and became the Leader of the Opposition. In 1976, he stood for the general elections but was not elected. On 18 August 1977 he died at the age of 68

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