Church of St Paulo in Old Goa. Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography It has long corridors and staircases with murals depicting the torments of hell. A night spent here, high up neat the roof, with a small plate of fish curry and a lean sallow priest for company and a hurricane lantern for lighting a vast barn like hall was an ee...
Mormagao [Mormugao] Harbour, Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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After an acrimonious controversy as to the respective merits of the route for a railway from Bellary to the coast at Karwar (all in British India) or one via Castle Rock to Mormagao, the latter was selected, and is now known as The Western India Portuguese Railway. The concession included the pr...
Sadashevgad [Fort], The North Canara Coast. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography The bartizan (overhanging turret) at the highest point of the fort. After its capture from Tipoo Sultan the garrison was found by the Bombay Army. The European gunners lived in the fort; the Sepoy line being at Chiticul, a mile away, where the chowki for confine...