ဗို္လ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းရဲ ့ ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္ ၀ိဇၨာဘြဲ ့လက္မွတ္ပုံ

Rangoon (Yangon) -1930

1952 ခုႏွစ္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းဥယ်ာဥ္ေနရာ

ေရွးတုန္း က ေရြတိဂံု ဘုရား ပံုေတာ္???????

The Shwedagon 1855

The Shwedagon 1855. This is the first photograph ever of the Shwedagon pagoda and was taken from where the Cantonment Gardens are today.

old Royal Hotel

Another photo of the old Royal Hotel at 619 Merchant Street between Brooking Street and 42nd Street (now the Gamon Pwint shopping centre between Bogalay-zay St and 42st). It was once considered the best in Rangoon together with the Strand and Minto Mansions. At least the building is still standing.

Excelsior theatre

The New Excelsior theatre on Montgomery Street (now the Waziya on Bogyoke Aung San Street) c. 1950 screening the Ester Williams musical "Bathing Beauty". It is the oldest cinema in Yangon and was built in the 1920s.

The old Rangoon railway station at Phayre Street (now Pansodan) c. 1930.

Maymyo 1935

Le Maison Continental (a leading French restaurant) @ the offices Burma Railways

An anti-government demonstration in 1949 - at the corner of Sule Pagoda Road and Montgomery Street (now Bogyoke Aung San Street). The government then controlled little outside Rangoon and much of the country was in the hands of the Communist Party of Burma, the Karen National Defense Organisation, and various militia.

Le Maison Continental (a leading French restaurant) is partly visible on the left, the offices Burma Railways on the right.

Opposite the Scott Market - Montgomery Street (now Bogyoke Aung San Street) c. 1935, with the Chulia Dargah to the right.

Opposite the Scott Market - Montgomery Street (now Bogyoke Aung San Street) c. 1935, with the Chulia Dargah to the right.

rom another presidential visit: Vice President Richard Nixon at Government House, Rangoon in 1953 with Miss Irene Ba U, President Dr Ba U and Mrs Nixon.

rom another presidential visit: Vice President Richard Nixon at Government House, Rangoon in 1953 with Miss Irene Ba U, President Dr Ba U and Mrs Nixon.

27 November 1885: the Burmese surrender at Ava.

27 November 1885: the Burmese surrender at Ava.

On 26 November the Kyaukmyaung Atwinwun and the Wetmasut Wundauk arrived at Ava to negotiate a surrender with the Burma Expeditionary Force of General Sir Harry Prendergast.

The Ava fort commander the Myoza of Myothit refused to accept the authority of the two royal envoys and agreed to surrender on 27 November only after receiving a direct order from King Thibaw by telegraph.

That afternoon, the Myothit Myoza sat on riverbank weeping as he watched the British ships then sail towards Mandalay.

Brigadier General GS White remembers that "the sun was pouring a flood of golden light on the last hours of Burman independence."

The old Whiteaway Laidlaw department store at the corner of Phayre Street (Pansodan) and Merchant Street.

The old Whiteaway Laidlaw department store at the corner of Phayre Street (Pansodan) and Merchant Street.

This week in 1885 - the end of independence.

This week in 1885 - the end of independence.

Sir Charles Bernard, Chief Commissioner of British Burma, enters Mandalay palace for the first time. In two weeks Burma would be proclaimed a province of India.

There was still then the idea of placing another Burman prince on the Konbaung throne under a British protectorate, like Hyderabad or Manipur. When this was found 'impractical' (in part because the preferred candidate the Nyaunggyan Prince had just died in Calcutta), Sir Charles considered a form of indirect rule through the Hluttaw (as a Council of Ministers headed by the Kinwun Mingyi).

In February 1886 however the British opted to abolish the Hluttaw, together with other royal institutions, much to the dismay of the Burmese aristocracy. Over the next year the even more fateful decision was made to rule all of "Burma proper" directly but the hill areas (the Shan states, Chin and Kachin Hills which not part of the old kingdom) "indirectly" through their own hereditary chiefs. The two areas (now the 'Regions' and 'States') would have very different colonial experiences leading to very different local perspectives and big problems by the time independence was regained in 1948.

The wife and son of the Sawbwa of Wuntho in 1890 with family and retainers.

The wife and son of the Sawbwa of Wuntho in 1890 with family and retainers.

The Sawbwa of Wuntho led a fierce resistance to British occupation but was finally defeated in 1891 by a British brigade of 1,800 men under General Sir George Wolseley. The seven hundred year old Wuntho principality was incorporated into the Katha district of the new Sagaing Division.

This photograph was taken by the British just after Wuntho had been captured and the Sawbwa had fled north to Yunnan (where he would live for 22 years).

The Shwedagon Pagoda 1855.

This photograph by Linnaeus Tripe is probably the first ever taken on the Shwedagon Pagoda platform.

The first permanent foreign embassy: The British "Residency" at Mandalay 1868.

The Sule Pagoda c. 1910

Happy Independence Day!