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View of the inside of a corrugated building with a bar across the short end. Windows with curtains along the long walls with lights with lampshades hanging from the ceiling. Easy chairs and low tables in the centre.

Inside a bedroom with net curtains covering the window part of the door with an electricity supply and sockets to one side. Clothes hang on a makeshift line behind the door next to a high stone mantlepiece. The mantlepiece holds various cans, bottles…

Two storey, flat roofed, building with walkway above ground floor colonnade. Second storey has chimneys and horizontal lifting covers on windows opening onto walkway. Bicycle leaning against ground floor colonnade and erected badminton net in…

Large two storied flat roofed brick building with arched ground floor colonnade. First floor windows have external horizontal lifting shutters. Bicycle leaning against the colonnade arches on ground floor.

Two storey corrugated roofed white brick building. Ground floor colonnade with wicker chairs and set in garden with flowerbeds.

Large building with two storey triple arches and ground floor colonnade with flowerbeds.

A series of brick built, flat roofed buildings with chimneys. The second storey has outward lifting shutters. There is an arched colonnade on the ground floor and a bicycle leans against one of the arches. A badminton net is erected in the courtyard…

Long brick building with stepped two storey colonnade. Ground floor open colonnade with pedestrians and bicycles and trees. Roadway with a man in a turban cycling.

A street scene with a two storey building with arched openings. There are a number of pedestrians with a man, wearing a turban, riding a bicycle.

Long, low whitewashed brick building with tiled roof, brick pillared veranda with large outward opening windows, standing between a row of palm trees and a sloping sandy beach. Easy chairs and sun loungers stand in front of the veranda with canvas…

Long single storey building with colonnade all under pitched tiled roof standing in gardens boarded with whitewashed stones. Man standing in colonnade shade.

Two storey brick building with colonnade and arched openings and chimneys/

Low brick building with a corrugated roof, chimneys and a brick pillared veranda, with doorways beyond, along its length. Open grassed area in front with circular flowerbed bordered with individual whitewashed stones.

Top left: Moore Market - Madras.
Top right: Greater Chennai Corporation Office - Ripon Building.
Centre: Central railway station Chennai.
Bottom left: Madras High Court - Chennai.

The scarf worn by Albert Frederick Nye during his time serving as a mid upper gunner with 207 Squadron. He said that he had worn it on all his operations and can be seen wearing it in photographs in this collection. Bert continued to wear the scarf…

A four storey flat roofed building with balconies in the top three floors on a corner position on a street with pavement. A sign for the 'Cafe Victory & Stores' on the ground floor, with a few steps leading up to the entrance. A group of servicemen,…

Inside a rom with door and window with net curtains. Made camp bed with blanket and sheet; multiple shoes and boots neatly placed underneath. Table with checked cover and two open drawers alongside.

A cargo ship moored in port with a second ship next to it. Floating crane and two barges visible; long, low buildings in the background.

The Casino theatre showing the American film 'Son of Lassie'. There are a number of people walking past the building.

An electric multiple unit passenger train numbered 4 in a station with a covered roof. On the head unit, the sign reads "Churchgate". A second track is alongside the platform on which a number of men in Indian dress stand. There are electric wires…

Coast street scene along a curved promenade with a man walking. There are utility poles, with wires attached running to a row of flat roofed buildings.

A colonnade of businesses including Victory Restaurant, Victory Stores and Bata shop. Advertising placards against the colonnade. Utility poles, trees and pedestrians.

Desert landscape with utility poles across the centre with manmade pathway in bottom right corner.

Single storey stone building with three entrances. The central entrance is arched and the whole is topped by a large stone dome.

Large two storied flat roofed brick building with external staircase leading to the roof. There is the letter ‘G’ denoted on the roof line of the building. The first floor windows have external horizontal lifting shutters. There are men outside the…