Copper and Lumber Store Hotel

The discovery of copper as a reliable method of protecting the bottom of wooden ships in tropical waters brought about the building in 1783, of the Copper and Lumber Store at what was to become known as Nelson's Dockyard in English Harbour. However, as steam ships became more important than sail, and as peace came, activity at the Dockyard waned and by 1906 it had been handed over to the colonial government. And so the Dockyard's Copper and Lumber Store lay forgotten and neglected, overgrown by...