Images Dated 22nd August 2012 (page 2)

Bangkok Wat Rajabopit - Thailand - Wat Rajabopit (meaning built by the King) Temple interior somewhat Italian Renaissance. Beautiful set of Chinese vases in front of the Buddha images. Date: 1952

Bangkok Wat Po - Thailand - Wat Po huge colourful sloping roofs with pretty courtyards. Date: 1952

Bangkok Wat Po - Thailand - Wat Po birthday cake porcelain, gilt roof peaks Date: 1952

Bangkok Elephant post - Thailand - Elephant hitching post outside Royal Palace Date: 1952

Bangkok Cremation ground - Thailand - Royal Palace Cremation grounds by Wat Phra with palace and Wat roofs in background. Date: 1952

Bangkok Grand Palace - Thailand - Invited to the modern Grand Palace, but Doug and Dad had to put on coats, ties, long pants and shoes. Mom not allowed to take photographs inside. Date: 1952

Bangkok Oriental Hotel - Thailand - The sprawling Oriental Hotel on the Chao Phraya River. Date: 1952

Bangkok Boulevard - Thailand - Nearing the city, we travelled under avenues of shade trees, past frame buildings, gas stations and westernised people and billboards. Date: 1952

Inya Lake Sailing Club - Rangoon - on next inlet from house Date: 1952

Inya Lake House - Rangoon

Inya Lake House - Rangoon - Upstairs verandah Date: 1952

Inya Lake House - Rangoon - Lake House under construction Date: 1952

Inya Lake House - Rangoon - View from study Date: 1952

Inya Lake House - Rangoon

Inya Lake House site - Rangoon - Lake House. We were immediate neighbours of Daw Kin Gee (widow of Aung San), and her three children. We and they played and punted on the lake together

Inya Lake House - Rangoon - Lake House under construction Date: 1952

Wedding reception - Rangoon

Wedding reception - Rangoon - Daughter of Daw Mya Sein and son of Sir Thoon Aung Gyaw, reception held on the lawn in Godwin Road

Jardines House on Inya Lake - Rangoon - Beautifully manicured garden down to the Lake. Traveller palm - fan shaped, each leaf stalk in joining the main stem forms a gourd-like reservoir of water for

wayside pagoda - Rangoon
Wayside pagoda - Rangoon - Tried out the lane at the north end of Golden Valley. It peters out into pasture but we climb a flight of steps up a hillside to where we see a pagoda spire against

wayside pagoda - Rangoon
Wayside pagoda - Rangoon -..bright assorted Buddhas and a small carved lichen-covered pagoda with small alabaster Buddhas in the four niches. Date: 1951

Reclining Buddha - Rangoon - Big Boy.walked to where a class of pongyis all kneeling were being read aloud to by another. Two came out into the sunshine for me to photograph. Date: 1951

Reclining Buddha - Rangoon - Big Boy Chintze and gnat guarding entrance Date: 1951

Reclining Buddha - Rangoon - Big Boy we came to a collection of basha huts close to it, and were told it was all right to go through to it

Reclining Buddha - Rangoon - Big Boyall the way we could see the Buddha head more clearly. Date: 1951

Reclining Buddha near Kokine - Rangoon - Big Boy what at first seemed like some huge rocky hill top across the fields and little truck gardens

water well sweep - Rangoon
Water well sweep - Rangoon - well sweep for commercial vegetable gardens on Kokine Road Date: 1951

Kambawza Palace - Rangoon -.. the view from the tower is worth the climb up the steps, from parquet floor to parquet floor. Date: 1951

firewood vendor - Rangoon
Firewood vendor - Rangoon - wood vendor for kitchen cooking Date: 1951

firewood delivery - Rangoon
Firewood delivery - Rangoon - bullock cart and wood man Date: 1951

Kambawza Palace - Rangoon -..very aware of the luxury that was this palace. The former harem court is now made over into single rooms for Embassy secretaries and the like. Date: 1951

Kokine Valley Road - Rangoon

Pongyis - Rangoon - Pongyis on Kokine Road Date: 1951

Kokine village - Rangoon - Kokine Village Date: 1951

garden of Mount Pleasant - Rangoon
Garden of Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - Anne and Ellen in garden on 22 Mount Pleasant Date: 1951

children of House Staff - Rangoon
Children of House Staff - Rangoon - Anne with Zenabee and Aung Thein Date: 1951

House Staff - Rangoon - Swami (cook) with bread man and helper Date: 1951

House Staff - Rangoon - Durwan (night watchman) and Mahli (gardener) Mahli mowed the grass with a long sharp scimitar, inch by tedious inch, early in the cool of the mornings

House Staff - Rangoon - Chotera (sweeper) Date: 1951

House Staff - Rangoon - Sultan (butler) with wife Amu and daughter Zenabee Date: 1951

House Staff - Rangoon - Tommy (driver) with wife Hle Sein and son Aung Thein Date: 1951

Mount Pleasant village - Rangoon - Bashas below 22 Mount Pleasant Date: 1951

22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - east view over the reservoir - The main water pipe to Rangoon was frequently damaged by insurgents, almost impossible for the government troops to guard

22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - south view (Shwedagon Pagoda just hidden by trees). Date: 1951

22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - house and garden Date: 1951

22 Mount Pleasant - Rangoon - Owned by the Corporation of Rangoon is normally the Mayors House, which we borrowed for seven months. Date: 1951

weavers - Inle Lake
Weavers - Inle Lake - They sell all their silks at the Taungyi bazaar Date: 1952

weavers - Inle Lake
Weavers - Inle Lake - They sell all their silks at the Taungyi bazaar Date: 1952

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