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171. Photo 146/1(173)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(173)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. An extension of the sandy beach looking away from the fort. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography The western sands and an aspect of the fort that neither the military commander of Boone's expedition nor Major Siersma of the Dutch would, in a professional sense, look at. They said that few of those who landed would ever get back to their ships. As the matter was...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

172. Photo 146/1(174)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(174)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. The District Officers' Rest House within the citadel or keep. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography It can also be seen in picture 172. The western sands and an aspect of the fort that neither the military commander of Boone's expedition nor Major Siersma of the Dutch would, in a professional sense, look at. They said that few of those who landed would ever g...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

173. Photo 146/1(175)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(175)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
An embrasure of the lower battery adapted for the use of passengers by the ferry steamers to and from Bombay or to ports south as far as Panjim in Goa. The 'Ticket Master', in the opening, on perhaps £3 a month is a man of some local importance.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

174. Photo 146/1(176)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(176)
Title:
Viziadrug Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This bastion commands the circular passage to the second guard gate. The view is looking north to the other bank of the River Wagotan estuary. Watson's fleet anchored abreast of the fort here. The fighting ships employed here were: Royal Navy - Kent 70 guns, Cum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

175. Photo 146/1(177)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(177)
Title:
Visiadrug Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography This bastion commands the circular passage to the second guard gate. The view is looking north to the other bank of the River Wagotan estuary. Watson's fleet anchored abreast of the fort here. The fighting ships employed here were: Royal Navy - Kent 70 guns, Cum...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

176. Photo 146/1(178)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(178)
Title:
Gheria Fort, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography A massive bastion of the third and main line of defiance. It exemplifies the 'Architecture of Fear' - Donjons and moats: Castles and keeps. From a lower aperture a light bamboo ladder that could be easily withdrawn facilitated movements of the garrison to and fr...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1934
Extent:
1 item

177. Photo 146/1(179)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(179)
Title:
Gheria, Bkik Bunder. The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
About 500 yards upstream where Clive landed his military contingent and field guns. They took up a position on the hill over against the landward face of the fort.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

178. Photo 146/1(180)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(180)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Genre: Architectural Photography Gates at the third and last guardroom into the upper courtyard and the Chief's residential quarters. These gates, presumably, are the very same that opened and shut for the Tulajee Angria and which were flung wide agape for Watson and Clive when they entered as ...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

179. Photo 146/1(181)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(181)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
This sketch plan appeared in a 1758 monthly issue of the Gentlemen's Magazine. The scale given must be a mistake of cartographer's as the fort cannot be more than 800 yards from East to West, at its longest, and less from North to South. The Sahou Rajah (Sow Roger as corrupted in early English a...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item

180. Photo 146/1(182)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 146/1(182)
Title:
Gheria, The Konkun Coast. A nameless grave. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
Scope & Content:
Believed to be that of the British Army officers killed in the action of the Bombay Marine brig of war Ranger, 12 guns, Capt. Ashmean Pruen, 8th April 1783 - Killed Major Shaw. Died of wounds at Gheria Lt. Col. Humberstone.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1930-1939
Extent:
1 item