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.

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.

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.

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

The "New Public Offices" on Dalhousie Street (now Mahabandoola Street) c. 1900.

Scene of High Court in Rangoon, ca.1920s

Something about Minto Mansions - Hotel

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Details about  Minto Mansions - Hotel Rangoon ~BURMA~ Scarce Early Postcard, c. 1910

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Minto Mansions Hotel during World War2

Eve Curie, Author & Journo: "The only hotel that had not yet closed altogether was called the Minto Mansions. In its torrid hall, half a dozen English officers were gloomily reading the papers. They cast a startled look in my direction when I came in with my bags and asked for a room. I learned from the manager that his terrified Burmese and Indian servants were fleeing one after another." ^[14b]

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14^th February 1942 (Sat)
Lt Kennedy RNVR: "As we passed through the many small stations, the saffron robes of the Buddhist priests stood out against the dusty background." ^[9]
Rangoon station and the square in front of it were in total chaos when the party arrived, a stark contrast to the silence of the deserted roads as they were driven to their accommodation, officers in the stiflingly hot Minto Mansions hotel, ratings in the Mayo Masin Club.
They had endured fifty one grueling days on the road since escaping from Hong Kong.

Minto Mansions Hotel Rangoon Burma Luggage Label

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BURMA RANGOON MINTO MANSIONS HOTEL EARLY 1900'S

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BURMA RANGOON MINTO MANSIONS HOTEL EARLY 1900'S
BURMA RANGOON - MINTO MANSIONS HOTEL WRITTEN ON NOT POSTED FROM THE EARLY 1900'S CREASE/ FOLD LINE IN TOP LEFT HAND CORNER PUBLISHER AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION PRESS, RANGOON.

RANGOON, BURMA ~ MINTO MANSIONS HOTEL PANORAMA 1910's

 

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ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းႏွင့္ေဒၚခင္ၾကည္တို႔၏မဂၤလာထမင္းစားပြဲဘိတ္ၾကားလႊာ...SomeSome say about Manto Mansios Hotel in Comments

Harry Hpone Thant According to available information, this was at the corner of Leeds(Khayaypin Lann) and Halpin(Pyitaungsu Yeiktha). MOst probably where the Info Section cum staff quarters of the PRC Embassy is located. The whole plot could have been sub-divided later into small residential plots and sold off. But what is intriguing is how this huge edifice disappeared! Maybe bombed by Allies? Because one scrap of information was it was also a Japanese Army Club. Like · Reply · 3 · July 16 at 9:19am Monsoon Moe Where General Aung San held his wedding! ? Like · Reply · 1 · May 13, 2013 at 3:59pm Ye M Khaung Minto Mansions Hotel, Halpin Road, Rangoon. (Colonial Period) Like · Reply · 1 · May 13, 2013 at 2:11pm Gam Awng ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေအာင္ဆန္းႏွင့္ေဒၚခင္ၾကည္တို႔၏မဂၤလာထမင္းစားပြဲဘိတ္ၾကားလႊာ... ွမင္တိုမင္ရွင္ဟိုတယ္(Minto Mansions Hotel)ဟိုတယ္သည္စစ္အတြင္းက (Nippon Military Club)ျဖစ္ခဲ့သည္ကိုမွတ္သားလိုက္ရပါသည္.. ဒါ့ေၾကာင့္ပဲ မဟာမိတ္ေလတပ္ရဲ႔ စစ္ေရးပစ္မွတ္အျဖစ္ ဗုံးအခ်ခံရျပီး ပ်က္စီးသြားတာ ျဖစ္မယ္ဟုယူဆမိပါသည္.. Like · Reply · July 17 at 11:55am · Edited Susukyi Volckmer Oh! I've never heard of this hotel!!!!! Like · Reply · May 13, 2013 at 11:02pm Tin Maung Nyunt No,it was at the Rangoon General Hospital which was used as HQ Burma Army later.Now it was abandoned as the HQ moved to Pyinmana. Like · Reply · May 13, 2013 at 9:17pm May Thu English territory time, Yangon city, Helpin rd, Mitomission hotel. Hopefully I translate in a right way if wrong pls correct. Like · Reply · May 13, 2013 at 1:18pm Thant Myint-U The "Minto Mansions", now demolished, once considered the best hotel in Rangoon together with the Strand. It was located at the corner of Halpin Road and Leeds Road (opposite where the Children's Hospital is today). Boasted the "only French chef in the Indies" (M. La Claie). Hla Myaing LikeLike · · Share · December 21, 2012 William Than, Lutha Kyaw and 179 others like this. 44 shares Moon Poni thanks for all these valuabel news saya. December 21, 2012 at 8:40am · Like Phyu P Khaing What a loss! Such a building with historical and architectural value. December 21, 2012 at 8:55am · Like Phyu P Khaing Similar style buildings can be found in other countries. The only difference is that they maintain with pride. http://en.wikipedia.org/.../File:Flinders_Street_Station... December 21, 2012 at 9:02am · Like · 2 Thet Win I had heard about this place growing up on the Halpin Road. Thanks for sharing the photo. December 21, 2012 at 9:08am · Like Ian Morley There was some incredible buildings in the city, there still are some and certainly are worthy of protection. December 21, 2012 at 9:26am · Like Thein Min Latt thank Sir December 21, 2012 at 10:10am · Like Ingrid Ingyin How come it was demolished? according to your pic, it was such a huge building with beautiful architecture. Honestly I didn't know to value such old buildings till three years before. One day I had to go to some government offices with Australian archi...See More December 21, 2012 at 10:22am · Like · 4 Nara Thiha Phone-Myat i seen it from novel as မင္တိုမင္ရွင္ ဟိုတယ္ December 21, 2012 at 12:46pm · Like · 1 Khin Maung Htwe Burmese does not know how to preserve heritage...so not past and no future December 21, 2012 at 1:00pm · Like Khin Maung Htwe If you go to Adelaide in Australia you will see a lot of heritage buildings and they were proudly preserved December 21, 2012 at 1:02pm · Like Winkelbediende Warenmagazijn There are still fantastic buildings in Rangoon guys this should be preserved asap December 21, 2012 at 2:32pm · Like Daniel Aye it's amazing. so big. William Than Albert Barton ဆုိတဲ့ အက္ဖ္ဘီေပၚက မိတ္ေဆြတစ္ဦးနဲ႔စကားေျပာရင္းက ျပည္ေထာင္စုရိပ္သာလမ္း(Halpin)လမ္းနဲ႔႔ခေရပင္လမ္း(Leeds Road)ေထာင့္က မင္တုိမင္ရွင္ဟုိတယ္ၾကီး ဟာ ဂ်ပန္ေခတ္က ဗုံးၾကဲခံရလုိ႔ပ်က္စီးသြားတယ္ ဆုိတာ သိခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ပုိေသခ်ာေအာင္ စိတ္၀င္စားသူမ်ား ဆက္လက္ေလ့လာျပီးတင္ေပးၾကပါရန္ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံပါတယ္။ (ဓာတ္ပုံကုိေတာ့ Hla Myo Aung ပုိ႔စ္မွကူးယူပါတယ္။ အတီး၀ါးလုံးရွည္ တင္ ထားတဲ့ပုံလည္း ျဖစ္နုိင္ပါတယ္) After having a chat with my FB friend Albert Burton, I came to know that the Minto Mansions (at the corner of the Pyidaungsu Yeikthar Road(Halpin Road) and Khayaybin(Leeds) Road was destroyed by bombs during the WW II. Will others who are interested in it are cordially invited to verify how it was disappeared. (Photo credit to Hla Myo Aung and Wa Lone Shay Ah Tee) UnlikeUnlike · · Share · November 29 You, Deo Gratais Thinzar and 21 others like this. 3 shares William Than Wow and Wow.....memories are coming back to me after nearly 70 years....I do remember it so well .....in fact ...as a child I used to creep into this hotel through the back and wander around the corridors....to me as a...See More November 29 at 12:33am · Edited · Like · 6 William Than Mr. Albert Barton ဖတ္လုိ႔ရေအာင္ အဂၤလိပ္လုိပါ နည္းနည္းေရးေပးရပါတယ္။ Square ေတြခ်ည္းဘဲ ျမင္ရတယ္ဆုိလုိ႔ပါ။ November 29 at 12:31am · Edited · Like · 4 William Than Mr. Albert Barton ဟာ ျမန္မာ့မင္းမ်ိဳ းမင္း ဆက္အနြယ္ေတာ္တစ္ဦးပါ။ သူက အဲဒီဟုိတယ္ရိွခဲ့တဲ့လမ္းေထာင့္ကေန ခဲတစ္ပစ္ေလာက္ရိွတဲ့ ခေရပင္လမ္းက အိမ္အမွတ္ ၁၁၃ မွာ ေနခဲ့သူပါ။ အဲဒါေၾကာင့္၊ အဲဒီဟုိတယ္ ထဲေနာက္ေပါက္က ေခ်ာင္း၀င္ျပီး၊ ေကာ္ရစ္ေဒၚတစ္ေလွ်ာက္ ေလ့လာခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္။ November 29 at 1:29am · Like · 7

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