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.