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Go down transportation has not been that easy in the former Gold Coast as the roads then were dirt roads, very lessen and bumpy with many pot holes and they were not paved to overcome obstacles as they veered general area of spurs in circuitous fashion. My late father who was born somewhere in the 1890s second-hand to tell me his experiences before the first car was introduced in Ghana a few years after the First World War in 1918. Before then, Cocoa, Palm kernels, Lime power, among other produce from the then Gold Coast were exported in wooden barrels, which my pop and colleagues made in an extinct profession called Coopery. Coopers made barrels, tubs, casks and other containers, using many instruments such as a big hammer, a wed of compasses, an anvil, metal bracelets or rings, among others.
Source: GhanaWeb