Old Lahore -- anarkali bazaar
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The Railway Station At Lahore, Punjab, 1880 (c).
Lahore, The Capital Of Punjab Province, Is Considered The Cultural Centre Of Pakistan.
Islam Came Here After The Advent Of Mahmud Of Ghazni In 1021 AD, And It Was Subsequently Ruled By A Succession Of Dynasties Of The Delhi Sultanate, Followed By The Mughals, The Sikhs And The British. It Reached Its Apogee Under The Mughals, Known As The Garden City And With Enough Architecture To Rank It With Other Great Mughal Centres Like Delhi, Agra And Fatehpur Sikri.
The British Took Control Of Lahore From The Sikhs In 1849, And Transformed Its Landscape With Railways, Factories And Roads. They Continued The Tradition Of Embellishing It With Architecture, Constructing Some Of The Finer Examples Of Colonial Buildings In The Indo-Islamic-Gothic-Victorian Style Here.
Taken By George Craddock In The 1880's, Part Of The Bellew Collection Of Architectural Views.
This Image Is Restored And Watermarked By East India Company And Raj Research Group.
© George Craddock / British Library
Lahore, The Capital Of Punjab Province, Is Considered The Cultural Centre Of Pakistan.
Islam Came Here After The Advent Of Mahmud Of Ghazni In 1021 AD, And It Was Subsequently Ruled By A Succession Of Dynasties Of The Delhi Sultanate, Followed By The Mughals, The Sikhs And The British. It Reached Its Apogee Under The Mughals, Known As The Garden City And With Enough Architecture To Rank It With Other Great Mughal Centres Like Delhi, Agra And Fatehpur Sikri.
The British Took Control Of Lahore From The Sikhs In 1849, And Transformed Its Landscape With Railways, Factories And Roads. They Continued The Tradition Of Embellishing It With Architecture, Constructing Some Of The Finer Examples Of Colonial Buildings In The Indo-Islamic-Gothic-Victorian Style Here.
Taken By George Craddock In The 1880's, Part Of The Bellew Collection Of Architectural Views.
This Image Is Restored And Watermarked By East India Company And Raj Research Group.
© George Craddock / British Library
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Many of the older pics in the thread are not available. Can someone re-share/upload them? 
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Its located at Regal Chowk in between Beadon and Hall Roads but partial front reconstruction has affected the original front as shown in above pic.
Lakshami Mention, once Lahore's best appartment building was behind it. The legends like G.M.Asar, Manto, Meraj Khalid, Khurshid Shahid and Mustansar Hussain Tarar were amongst the residents. Now this appartment compond has also been converted into Commercial Area.
Its new name is Ahmed Mention..
Its located at Regal Chowk in between Beadon and Hall Roads but partial front reconstruction has affected the original front as shown in above pic.
Lakshami Mention, once Lahore's best appartment building was behind it. The legends like G.M.Asar, Manto, Meraj Khalid, Khurshid Shahid and Mustansar Hussain Tarar were amongst the residents. Now this appartment compond has also been converted into Commercial Area.
Its new name is Ahmed Mention..
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General view from Jumma Musjid, Lahore, 1895 (c).
Lahore rose to prominence under the rule of the Mughal emperors after Babur (ruled 1526-1530) defeated Ibrahim Lodi, a Sultan of Delhi, in 1526. It was the capital city of Akbar (ruled 1556-1605) from 1584 to 1598.
He built the fort on the foundations of an earlier fort and enclosed the city within a wall set with 12 gates. The emperors Jahangir (ruled 1605-27) and Shah Jahan (ruled 1628-58) extended the fort, building garden courtyards and richly decorated white marble pavilions within so that it became a palatial dwelling.
This photograph is a view taken from the adjacent Badshahi Mosque looking towards the fort. The mosque was built in 1673-74 by Aurangzeb (Mughal emperor, ruled 1658-1707) and is considered the largest in area on the subcontinent.
The tomb of Ranjit Singh is visible in the left of the photograph. Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) was a famous Sikh leader who ruled the Punjab (modern day Pakistan) from 1799 to 1839. His tomb, or samadh, was built by his son, Kharak Singh and was completed in 1848. It is a fine example of Sikh architecture with gilded fluted domes, cupolas, kiosks and stone lanterns with an ornate balustrade on the square roof.
Photograph from the Macnabb Collection of the Fort in Lahore, taken by an unknown photographer, most likely during the 1890's.
© Unknown Photographer / British Library
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General view from Jumma Musjid, Lahore, 1895 (c).
Lahore rose to prominence under the rule of the Mughal emperors after Babur (ruled 1526-1530) defeated Ibrahim Lodi, a Sultan of Delhi, in 1526. It was the capital city of Akbar (ruled 1556-1605) from 1584 to 1598.
He built the fort on the foundations of an earlier fort and enclosed the city within a wall set with 12 gates. The emperors Jahangir (ruled 1605-27) and Shah Jahan (ruled 1628-58) extended the fort, building garden courtyards and richly decorated white marble pavilions within so that it became a palatial dwelling.
This photograph is a view taken from the adjacent Badshahi Mosque looking towards the fort. The mosque was built in 1673-74 by Aurangzeb (Mughal emperor, ruled 1658-1707) and is considered the largest in area on the subcontinent.
The tomb of Ranjit Singh is visible in the left of the photograph. Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) was a famous Sikh leader who ruled the Punjab (modern day Pakistan) from 1799 to 1839. His tomb, or samadh, was built by his son, Kharak Singh and was completed in 1848. It is a fine example of Sikh architecture with gilded fluted domes, cupolas, kiosks and stone lanterns with an ornate balustrade on the square roof.
Photograph from the Macnabb Collection of the Fort in Lahore, taken by an unknown photographer, most likely during the 1890's.
© Unknown Photographer / British Library
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