Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
After viewing the cathedral, turn left onto Duke of Kent Street, which leads down to the:
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St. George's Historical Society Museum
Located at Featherbed Alley and Duke of Kent Street, the museum building is
an example of the rather plain 18th-century Bermudian architecture. It contains
a collection of Bermudian historical artifacts and cedar furniture.
Around the corner on Featherbed Alley is the:
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Featherbed Alley Printery
Here you can see a working replica of the type of printing press invented by
Johannes Gutenberg in Germany in the 1450s.
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Go up Featherbed Alley and straight onto Church Street. At the junction with Broad
Lane, look to your right to see the:
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Old Rectory
The Old Rectory is located at the head of Broad Alley, behind St. Peter's
Church. Now a private home administered by the National Trust, it was built
in 1705 by a reformed pirate. You can go inside only on Wednesdays from noon
to 5pm.
After seeing the Old Rectory, go through the church's backyard, opposite Broad Alley,
to reach:
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St. Peter's Church
The church's main entrance is on Duke of York Street. St. Peter's is the oldest
Anglican place of worship in the Western Hemisphere. In the churchyard, you'll
see many headstones, some 300 years old. The assassinated governor, Sir Rich-
ard Sharples, was buried here. The present church was built in 1713, with a
tower added in 1814.
Across the street is the:
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Bermuda National Trust Museum
When it was the Globe Hotel, this was the headquarters of Maj. Norman
Walker, the Confederate representative in Bermuda. It was once a hotbed of
blockade running (artillery smuggling during the Civil War).
Go west along Duke of York Street to:
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Barber's Alley & Petticoat Lane
Barber's Alley honors Joseph Hayne Rainey. A former slave from South Carolina,
Rainey fled to Bermuda with his French wife at the outbreak of the Civil War.
He became a barber in St. George and eventually returned to South Carolina,
where in 1870 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives—the first
African American to serve in Congress.
Nearby is Petticoat Lane, also known as Silk Alley. The name dates from the
1834 emancipation, when two former slave women who'd always wanted silk
petticoats like their former mistresses finally purchased some—and paraded up
and down the lane to show off their new finery.
Continue west until you reach:
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Tucker House
Opening onto Water Street, this was the former home of a prominent Bermu-
dian family, whose members included an island governor, a treasurer of the
