by Henry Hector

I am sure that some of you here are asking yourselves DOCK OF THE BAY! – WEY DEY COME FROM?

            Well! What started out as a casual lime at Frisco Junction – underneath Peiping Supermarket, Markie John’s Parlour, Eddy’s Store and yes on the round-about, in the sixties, by Fred Lewis, Pedro Wallace, Pinhead, Steve Hector, Raymond Marrast and others, gave rise to DOCK OF THE BAY SPORT AND CULTURAL CLUB.

            At Markie John’s Parlour there used to be this JukeBox, where these guys would go and punch in their tunes and dance for days on end.  They were hooked on music by JAMES BROWN and WILSON PICKETT, to name a few singers of that time.  Then along came OTIS REDDING with his soulful renditions, amongst them, SITTING OF THE DOCK OF THE BAY.  That song struck a chord amongst theses guys and before long when people asked them what they were doing on the ROUNDABOUT?  There reply was quite naturally, “we are sitting on the DOCK OF THE BAY”.  The area then became known as DOCK OF THE BAY.

            However, with the passing of time and the changing of the guards, Dock of the Bay Sports and Cultural Club was founded in September 1971 under Peiping Grocery by the they young limers inclusive of Muhammed Isa, Camilious Ventour, Wilfred Cave,  Fabien Mc Liesh, Annette Belfon, Sluggo John and Mayon Murray, to name a few of the original members.  Whilst one of the lines in the song says – “sitting on the dock of the bay wasting time” – the members of this club certainly did the opposite in their various fields of endeavor.