Lahore: Old pictures

[third eye]

Old photo showing Lahore of bygone days .. Photo taken in 1924 by E Arnhold of Berlin

 

[Malik Usman]

Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaalllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy awsome.

 

[rabia kashmiri]

lahore apna rocks.aakhir shehar ju PAKISTAN ka he na.

 

[third eye]

Pedestrian traffic on the street.
Location: Lahore, India
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

View of the front entrance to the Jubilee Museum & Technical Institute, Prince Albert Memorial Museum
Location: Lahore, India
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

Taking water from a pool in front of a Mosque.
Location: Lahore,
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

Sikhs walking beside two-wheeled, horse-drawn wagon on a busy city street..
Location: Lahore, Punjab,
Date taken: September 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

Young boy squatting in front of old military cannon built in 1781 in front of the Jubilee Museum & Technical Institute, Prince Albert Memorial Museum.
Location: Lahore,
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

 

[third eye]

View of the exterior of Jubilee Museum & Technical Institute, Prince Albert Memorial Museum
Location: Lahore, India
Date taken: 1946
Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White

 

[Musalman]

Most unfortunate.

Have you any idea whats in its place or could you post a picture of the site now.

Well that tank was in Shahalmi, and burning of Shahalmi in 1947 was the darkest part of Lahore history. This place was lost than I think ... otherwise shopping plaza's would have been built here

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Old photo showing Lahore of bygone days .. Photo taken in 1924 by E Arnhold of Berlin

Lahore Canal is even more beautiful today

 

[hembo]

Lahore Canal is even more beautiful today

If possible, post some current pictures please, not only of the canal, but other monuments also.

 

[Musalman]

If possible, post some current pictures please, not only of the canal, but other monuments also.

Sure InshaAllah will do that

 

[third eye]

 

[Musalman]

Okay Ratan Chand tank, its call Ratan chand di sarah. Is now a place where they grind salt commercially. Tank is also gone, in its place small houses have been built. Place was occupied by immigrants from Amritsar in 1947

 

[third eye]

 

[Musalman]

if u see google earth Lahore must have 1000 time bigger than it was than. May be even more

 

[third eye]

Wonder if anyone can post images of this legendary cannon as it exists now ?

Unusual name.. Bhangiyan Wali Tope

 

[third eye]

Indian soldiers driving two-wheeled carts drawn by mules through the street

Man using a hand-cranked sewing machine to make clothes as he smokes a hooka pipe in his shop

 

[third eye]

Sonali Mosque
Published as halftone in Harper's Weekly, 1895