Dr. Sydney Ellerton’s Adventures in the Middle East – Pakistan (Part 1)

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Taken during a sugar beet feasibility study in Pakistan, 1964-1966.

 

Camel transport through the streets of Karachi

 

 

 

 

 

In Lahore, transport by Zebu bullocks

 

 

 

 

 

Faletti’s Hotel in Lahore, the leading hotel in the days of empire and still quite charming and special

 

 

Dating from the days of the Mogul Empire, the Fort of Lahore

 

 

Inside the fort

 

 

 

 

 

Details of arches in the fort

 

 

 

 

 

Ceramic wall decoration

 

 

Patterned brick pathway

 

 

The entrance to the Great Mosque, Lahore

 

 

The courtyard of the Great Mosque

 

 

Part of the marble interior

 

 

Kim’s Gun, made famous by Rudyard Kipling

 

 

Entrance to the Emperor Jehangir’s tomb

 

 

Interior of tomb

 

 

Detail of the entrance arch

 

 

 

 

 

Shalimar Gardens, Lahore

 

 

 

 

 

The Ellerton’s shop in Lahore

 

 

A buttressed tree in the grounds, with Nicholas Craze

 

 

Pakistani street shoemaker and scribe

 

 

 

 

The Gossips

 

 

A Rawalpindi water vendor with his goatskin

 

 

North to the sugar cane factory at Takht-i-bhai. In January 1964, it was cold and wet. The electricity had failed so that a very long line of carts and trucks soon accumulated.

 

 

 

 

 

Rather miserable men waiting for the factory to re-open

 

 

Mingors Bazaar in Swat, a semi-independent state in the northwest

 

 

Refreshment in the street in the Mingors Bazaar

 

 

On one of the sugar beet fields one of the gang keeps his hookah going

 

 

Very wonderfully painted lorries were a feature throughout. This proud driver was very pleased to have his picture taken.

 

 

Another lorry

 

 

At the University of Lyallpur, Cambridge friend Prof, N.D. Yusuf

 

 

Dr Larsen of Washington State University was designing cheap and simple implements which were a big advance on local tradition while being very easy to build.

 

 

The Punjabi method of making gur, or crude sugar. The bullocks were grinding the cane.

 

 

The juice was boiled down in these pans, over a pit of burning cow dung.

 

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