Old Peshawar

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Peshawar is one of the living cities in the world

 

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Caravan Serai Peshawar 1920

1927 Juggler selling remedy for snake bite in Peshawar

Below Peshawar Bazaar scene in 1922, about 95 yrs ago.

The Elephant Battery, Artillery Lines, Peshawar, Feb. 1880

 

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Capital Theater c.1940's

 

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Indo Afghan border - Khyber Pass

A Travelling Camel Carriage from Lahore to Peshawar, Governor General's Camp

Peshawar Station Hospital.

Peshawar | Queen Victoria Museum (British India).

 

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1900 - 1910

 

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Peshawar is one of the living cities in the world

and i feel pathans are cool people too

 

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and i feel pathans are cool people too

Indeed they are. Very friendly, helping and hospitable

 

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1900

 

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1910

Extremely rare Photos of Peshawar - North Entrance Gate of Peshawar City, 1880s - Old and rare Pictures of Peshawar

 

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1940 Saddar.
Capital cinema

1900

1883

 

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A welcome sign in Peshawar, apparently sponsored by the Czechoslovak footwear company Bata.

 

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Fire Brigade in 1950's

Old Peshawar (1890)

Men walk in a crowded street of an ethnically diverse Peshawar in this photograph taken circa 1890.

Located at the crossroads of Central, South and West Asia, Peshawar emerged as a centre of knowledge and culture in around 2nd Century BC.

Peshawar was taken over by the British after the first Anglo-Sikh war in 1849.

At the time when this photograph was taken, Sir Mortimer Durand was mapping the mountains near Peshawar to demarcate the border between the British empire and Afghanistan.

Patras Bukhari wrote the following about old Peshawar in a letter to his sons:

“More and more, my wakeful and sleeping dreams are about Peshawar…. how will I ever be able to walk the dusty road outside Kohati Gate and make my way to blossoming orchards heavy with due, or smell the roasted meet in shops and eatinghouses full of strange travelers from the heart of Asia; or stand in the crisp cold wind from the snow peaked hills; or roam around the Sadar contacting far off England through second hand detective magazines; it the smell of candy, biscuits and toilet soap that made up a ‘European’ shop like Gai’s…”

Old Pashto Musical Program of Radio Pakistan Peshawar

 

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