Norman Darway being interviewed
The Early Beginnings of the Steelpan:
The Untold Story

Norman Darway shares newspapers photos and history

Norman Darway

This photograph shows some of the first panmen playing biscuit tins with sticks. This picture was supposedly taken around the late 30's. Young Mannette (second from right) tuning some of the first pans.

Young Boogsie Sharpe

Top Pan Men Making Peace in 1950

Winston "Spree" Simon (left) and Tony Williams

Addawell Sampson

Sonny Roach

Roy Harper

Nooksin Sampson

Rudolph "fisheye" Ollivierre

LLoyd Butcher

Winston "Spree" Simon

PING PONG virtuoso Andrew "Pan" de la Bastide

Wilbert Forde

Belgrave Bonaparte

Norman Darway and Douglas

Norman Darway as a young bodybuilder (left) and as he was in 1996

Rudolph Charles