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...
St Monica's. Velha Goa [Old Goa] Churches. Portuguese India. Photographer: Venn, Thomas Walters
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Genre: Architectural Photography The only nunnery in Old Goa. Completed in 1606. All religious orders suppressed in 1838. In 1935 there was still a certain amount of litter about the place of indicative of its former use. The wooden turntable at the portico and the Portaria de fora are still th...
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...