Images Dated 22nd August 2012 (page 4)

Reclining Buddha - Pegu - Reclining Buddha - Elaborate glass mosaics on the heroic feet and devan. Date: 1952

Reclining Buddha - Pegu - A treasury of bronze, alabaster and later gilded or silver decoration. Date: 1952

Buddha - Pegu - Strong Siamese influences of Pegu Buddha, being the starting point for endless raids against Siam. The armies, after meditation at the Shwemedaw

roadside stalls - Pegu
Roadside stalls - Pegu - Bottleneck entering city, at one-way bridge built by returning British army, with a maximum three-year guarantee

Shwemedaw Pagoda - Pegu - Shwemedaw Pagoda - In the course of foundation reinforcement and rebuilding, relics have been found dating back to 10th Century

Teak mill - elephant - Moulmein - Steele Bros. Teak Mill They push very deliberately, with their feet, and lift with their trunks. Date: 1951

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 - Moulmein
Bazaar - 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 - Moulmein
Bazaar stall holders - Moulmein - Bazaar First no one, then everyone, wants their pictures taken! Date: 1951

view of town and pagodas - Moulmein
View 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 - Moulmein
Ferry 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 - Moulmein
Ferry 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 - Moulmein
Town 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

Shimbyu dancer - Rangoon - Member of the street parade. Date: 1952

Shimbyu - Rangoon - Offerings by family to the monastery. Pungyi robes are woven and dyed in a single night, great honour gained by those completing theirs first

Shimbyu - Rangoon - Celebration for young boy pretending to be Prince Guahatma with parade, prior to rejecting worldly goods as a pungyi. Date: 1952

Kamayut fire walking festival - Rangoon - Down the centre is a shallow pit about 20 feet long, 4 feet wide of glowing charcoal fire

Indian temple - Rangoon - near Kamayut Date: 1952

Umbrella bamboo - Rangoon - Thi wa, at Kalaw Date: 1952

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

Bougainvilla - Rangoon - at Kalaw Date: 1952

Jacaranda and Deodar trees - Rangoon - on Pagoda Hill, Kalaw Date: 1952

Cannas - Rangoon - in Mount Pleasant garden Date: 1952

Water hyacinths in paddy field - Rangoon - Water hyacinths in paddy field Date: 1952

Cantonment Gardens - Rangoon - Cantonment Gardens Date: 1952

Palm patterns - Rangoon - Fishtail palm easy to transplant. Toddy Palmyra Tau fan shaped frond. Coconut palm long feathery frond. Date: 1952

Cassia tree - Rangoon

Pink cassia - Rangoon - deep apple blossom, pea family leaf Date: 1952

Pink cassia in Kalaw - Rangoon - Pink cassia in Kalaw Date: 1952

Mu tree - Rangoon - Mu Tree Date: 1952

Mu tree - Rangoon - Mu Tree Date: 1952

Indian laburnum - Rangoon - ngu yellow wisteria style blossom. Date: 1952

Frangipani - Rangoon - tayak sigah - From China, evergreen kind prettiest. Cuttings transplant easily in rainy season. Date: 1952

Rusty shield bearer - Rangoon - deep gold yellow, tight clustered blossoms, pea family Date: 1952

Royal Poinsiana in Churchill Road - Rangoon - Royal Poinsiana in Churchill Road Date: 1952

Royal Poinsiana - Rangoon - Royal Poinsiana Date: 1952

Royal Poinsiana - Rangoon - Flame of the Forest -sein byin Date: 1952

Twante Canal - Rangoon

Twnate Canal - Rangoon - We stopped at the official tollhouse and our junior officer captain had chairs and tables set out for our tea under a huge Ginko tree

Twante Canal - Rangoon - Threading our way up river through strange harbour craft. Then into the wide canal itself, little basha villages, paddy harvesting, moored sampans on either side. Date: 1952

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