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Alastair Robertson
“It’s industry Jim, but not as we know it”
A little while ago I was given a book entitled ‘Tenerife y sus pueblos’ (‘Tenerife and its towns’, or ‘Tenerife and the thirty-one municipalities of the island’ to be exact). It’s a lavish production, published in 2004, a sort of gazetteer in three languages, Spanish, English and German, and while idly leafing through it over a cup of tea ...Full Article
When ‘Enlightenment’ came to Tenerife
Throughout Europe the eighteenth century was a time of growing intellectual ‘enlightenment’, when, in a spirit of inquisitiveness, people wanted to find out more about the world they lived ...Full Article
The small houses of La Laguna
This article might satisfy the curiosity of the inquisitive English tourist or expatriot resident, and perhaps inspire Tinerfenos to look at the small single-storey houses, the ‘casas terreras’, in ...Full Article
An unnoticed historic relic: The anchor of HMS Theseus
Whenever the defence of Santa Cruz comes to mind against the assault by the British naval squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Horatio Nelson between July 22nd and 25th 1797, the ...Full Article
El Semaforo de Igueste – revisited
A little over two years ago, in October 2013, the ‘Tenerife News’ published an article I’d written about the Semaforo de Igueste in the Anaga hills. (TN No. 486, ...Full Article
The Marquis de Branciforte and Carlos Soler de Carreno y Castilla
Scene 2: WE MEET CARLOS SOLER The acquisition of a fortune by doubtful methods by the Marquis de Branciforte, Commander General of the Canary Islands, did not pass unnoticed. ...Full Article
The Marquis de Branciforte and Carlos Soler de Carreno y Castilla
The name of Marquis de Branciforte is known in Tenerife mainly as the benefactor who gave Santa Cruz the Almeda Garden, the tree-lined avenue next to the Plaza de ...Full Article
The 218th anniversary of Nelson’s attack on Santa Cruz
By the time you read this, the 25th of July will be long gone, but the story of this year’s commemoration of the heroic defence of Santa Cruz against ...Full Article
The Canary Islands before the tourists came
Since the 1960’s the economy of the Canary Islands has been increasingly and heavily dependent upon tourism, a large percentage of which is British, but long, long before then ...Full Article
The disaster of 1898
Towards the end of the 19th century European countries were very keen to acquire new colonies in the far east and in the ‘Race for Africa’, with the new ...Full Article
