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House Staff - Rangoon - Sultan (butler) with wife Amu and daughter Zenabee Date: 1951
Mount Pleasant village - Rangoon - Bashas below 22 Mount Pleasant Date: 1951
22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - house and garden Date: 1951
Palaung women - Kalaw
Teak mill - elephant - Moulmein - Steele Bros. Teak Mill - Ellen up! Watched and rode elephants, not as much fun as the Egyptian camels tough body bristles! Date: 1951
Teak mill - Moulmein
Teak mill - elephant - Moulmain - Steele Bros. Teak Mill - 40 years prime age for an elephant; 25 years old not entirely reliable. Always work with the same oozies. Date: 1951
Family with Holmess - Moulmein - With Cal and Mary Holmes. Cal was Chief Officer of the Steele Companies of Burma, including teak, china, cotton, and rice milling an old Burma hand Date: 1951
Balancing rock and statues - Moulmein - Monkey statues around the Karen girls figures outside and the balancing rock above. Date: 1951
View from Kipling Pagoda - Moulmein - The site has been occupied by a pagoda since 700AD. Gold pagoda under repair. Wide terraces with dipping roofed steps leading down the steep hill
Kipling Pagoda - Moulmein - Pagoda Hill Old Kipling Pagoda but he himself never got nearer than Mergui! Date: 1951
bazaar - MoulmeinBazaar - Moulmein - Bewildering details of stalls, strollers, vendors, items for sale na pe fish paste, pomelos, bananas, tinware, fly strewn eatables. Date: 1951
bazaar stall holders - MoulmeinBazaar stall holders - Moulmein - Bazaar First no one, then everyone, wants their pictures taken! Date: 1951
view of town and pagodas - MoulmeinView of town and pagodas - Moulmein - We remain aboard as ferry leaves for return to Moulmein. Sails, gulls flying up to take tea basket left-overs from our hands
ferry to Namaw - MoulmeinFerry to Namaw - Moulmein - On to Namaw, a bigger, busier landing, with cluster of tin roofed bashas and its long road across the paddy fields
ferry landing - MoulmeinFerry landing - Moulmein - Two days ago a river ferry was heavily laden with rubber and seventy passengers. In midstream suddenly split open with rot. None survived the ebbing tide
town view - MoulmeinTown view - Moulmein - Town strung along river, backed by hills. No big ships can come up the shallow Salween River with its rip tides. Hard to see how the people support themselves. Date: 1951
Waterfront - Moulmein - walk down to pier teak logs, varied craft, busy waterfront. Date: 1951
Peace Pagoda Parade - Rangoon
Thankin Nus Peace Pagoda - Rangoon - Peace Pagoda being built (U Nu - President of Burma at the time). It is a different style from the usual bell shaped ones that cannot be entered
Chinese Temple Keeper - Rangoon - on Kokine Road Date: 1951
Chinese Temple - Rangoon - on Kokine Road Date: 1951
Rangoon Rubber Plantation - Rangoon - Without enough rubber, know how, or equipment, they cant get made badly- needed tyres, but they certainly let themselves go on balloons. Date: 1951
Prayer Flag Seller - Rangoon - near Chinese temple Date: 1951
Balloons and Anne - Rangoon - Met a balloon man with a fantastic armful of Walt Disneyish balloons they sell here for 2 annas. Date: 1951
Dhobi area - Rangoon - Public laundry washing area Date: 1951
Bandoola Square - Rangoon - Sule Pagoda, children with Driver Date: 1951
Kemmendine - basha fire - Rangoon - Fire-fighting equipment arrives promptly and Doug and I got to watch it extinguished and surrounding houses being wet down by hoses from water trucks
leaving Port of Aden - Aden - Aden doesn t look like much in the daytime, just a few buildings at the foot of huge volcanic mountains. Date: 1951
Sunset - Indian Ocean - Sunset over the Indian Ocean Date: 1951
Port of Aden - Aden - It is a pest hole, as you are hounded everywhere. We saw people smoking water pipes and lying on cots in the street
Red Sea - Sudan - S.S.Salween shipboard swimming pool and play area - not normally supplied - but vital as there were lots of children. Date: 1951
Suez Canal - Egypt - S.S.Salween looking ahead Date: 1951
Cairo - Gizeh - Egypt - Two guides took us up the Cheops Pyramid. It was fun but tiring scrambling up the steep slabs of stone
Cairo - Egypt - We landed smoothly, on the second try. The bus took us over the desert from Farouk Airport into the City In the afternoon we walked down Kasr-el-Nile to the Giziroh Bridge
Athens - Greece - Parthenon Date: 1951
Rome Airport - Italy - First flight for our family - TWA. Watched it land and were welcomed to go outside and photograph it
Rome - Italy - Coliseum Date: 1951
Siena - Italy - San Mario Gate - walked through the narrow, twisty streets until we came to thes Mario Gate. Date: 1951
Florence - San Marco - Italy - Went up to the Church of San Marco. The serene monastery, with its beuatiful cloister garden and many cool and quiet cells with their little chapels
Florence - Ponte Vecchio - Italy - Walked over one of the four temporary bridges on the foundations of old ones that were mined by the Germans. Date: 1951
Florence - Certosa - Italy - Arrived late afternoon to look around the monsatery and saw some of the bearded, yellow-robed monks
Carnoles - Cap Martin - FranceCarnol賠 - Cap Martin - France - Took the bus towards Menton, getting off at the little village of Cap Martin. After much hunting found two double rooms in a villa which had closed for
Monte Carlo - Monaco - Coming along Monaco Harbour we saw the Stella Polaris, which we later boarded. Date: 1951
Colmars - France - The arched gates had a dark enclosed parapet on top of the wall. Date: 1951
