Robert F. Kay's Blog Posts Tagged 'GPH' (11)

(This is the ninth and final in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen.).

To restore the building will cost a lot, but other expensive buildings have been constructed during the time that the GPH has been left to decline. Looking around in…

(This is the eighth in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen).

Looking at the bleak walls, the broken windows, the trees that nobody care for anymore I see in my mind's eye the string of events that took place in this building, the bustle of an active social life,…

(This is the seventh in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen.  These next few excerpts cover the glorious history of the GPH).

Fiji Times twice to find people who had worked at…

(This is the sixth in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen.  These next few excerpts cover the glorious history of the GPH).

It is clear from all this that saving the Grand Pacific has not been of a very high priority in…

(This is the fifth is in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen.  These next few excerpts cover the glorious history of the GPH).

(This is the fourth in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen.  These next few excerpts cover the glorious history of the GPH).

The restoration got delayed. In August 1995 a new message in the Fiji Times: "Grand Pacific to get a facelift at last". It was illustrated with a…

(This is the third in a series of blogs by Norwegian anthropologist Solrun Williksen.  These next few excerpts cover the glorious history of the GPH).

The Grand Pacific Hotel was built in 1914 and was hailed as a masterpiece of colonial architecture and a seat of splendid receptions, balls and…

I've written about the newest incarnation of the Grand Pacific Hotel, which is rising once again like a Phoenix on Suva's waterfront.

Alas, it has been a long road to recovery for the GPH which arguably was…

It's been a few months since we celebrated the 60th year of QE II's reign.  During her these past six decades on the throne she has visited 135 countries including of course the Fiji Islands, one of the 54 …