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Several buildings, single and two storeys.

Four photographs of Naples area August 1945.
Open menu airmen's mess, 42 ANS Port Elizabeth. Captioned 'The only good meal we had in the mess'.

A man standing on rocks at a beach. He is wearing a cloth cap and jacket.

A Soviet Union Displaced Persons camp entrance. An entrance sign can be seen.

A group of airmen in military uniform outside a entrance to a building.

The photographs on the left of the left page and the two photographs on the right page show aerial views of urban settlements.
The photograph on the right of the left page shows an aerial view of the countryside.

An oblique aerial photograph of a town destroyed by bombing. The starboard wing of an aircraft obscures the bottom of the image.

A vertical aerial photograph of a destroyed truss bridge.

25 airmen posed in three rows, wearing greatcoats and caps with aircrew under training flash, in front of a row of terrace houses. On the reverse 'Keith, middle row extreme left'.

Five airmen wearing khaki shorts and shirts, two holding pith helmets, sitting and leaning on a balustrade wall by a beach. Bernard Ross is second from the left. Another shirtless man sits further along on the right. Sign on the wall states 'Officers…

Air-to-air view looking down at Halifax flying with only starboard inner engine. Captioned 'one engine flying'.

Halifax R9430 being test-flown by Squadron Leader P Dobson to determine the rate of height loss while flying on one engine.

Top left: Women carrying baskets on their heads.
Top right: Big Masjidh from Harewood Rd, Ooty.
Centre left: Edge of town in the Aravankad / Wellington with terrace hillside beyond.
Bottom left: Wellington Cantonment, Coonoor.

Additional…

Top right: River in parkland with tropical trees. On reverse is stamped 'Zaidas Photographers Lahore, Allahabad, Ootacamund'.
Centre left: Plains from mountainside.
Centre middle: Mountains.
Centre right: Ooty golf course.

Additional…

Top left: Buildings at foot of wooded hillside.
Top right: Ooty Lake.
Middle: Ooty Golf Course with a view to the west.

On the bottom left corner, two further photographs:
Top left: view of Ooty from the Government Botanical Gardens, with Ooty…

Top left: looking down on plain from wooded hillside.
Top centre: Two men on a forested hillside.
Top right: Buildings at the foot of cleared, terraced hillside.
Bottom left: Two men in a wooded gully, A F Nye (right).
Bottom centre: Looking down…

Top left: Commercial street scene at Cavalry/Kamaraj road, Mysore, Bangalore.
Top right: Commercial street scene with trees.
Centre: Russell Market, Bangalore.
Bottom left: Rickshaws with drivers under a shady tree.
Bottom right: Market square,…

Top left: Imperial Talkies cinema on Residency Road, Bangalore. On reverse, 'Imperial talkies Bangalore'.
Top right: St. Mary's Basilica, Bangalore.
Centre: Market Square looking into HKP Road with Sunlight Soap advertisement. On reverse, 'Market…

Top right: Ulsoor Lake (Halsur Tank), Bangalore.
Centre: Cinema. On reverse: 'Plaza talkies South Parade Rd'.
Centre right: Passenger train on single track in lush vegetation.
Bottom left: Maharajah 'Krishnaraja wodeyar' Memorial in…

A passenger train numbered 4 in a station with a covered roof. A second track is alongside the platform on which a number of men in Indian dress stand. There are electric wires overhead and a number of buildings, mainly of five storeys, alongside.

Young Indian man standing in an open area. There are two storey brick buildings beyond with brick colonnade surrounding with chimneys.

A car parked in front of a large single storey thatched building. Another car in the background left. In front a sign pointing right 'To the Hippo Pools'. On the reverse 'Stayed here one night. Hippo not far away but didn't see any as the weather…

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…

Steam engine with two passenger carriages with open windows, travelling on a single track railway. Stone surrounded culvert passes under the track. Buildings with verandas on the terraced hillside above the railway with wooded hillsides surrounding.

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…

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.