Tuesday 27 October 2015

Rabindranath Tagore – First Indian to win Nobel Prize ( 1913 )


MG Road Bangalore


This picture shows the glass being applied to the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa, which stands at 2722 feet tall


The 105-storey Ryugyong Hotel under construction in the North Korean capital Pyongyang in 2008. It still hasn't opened


The twin Petronas Towers Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, can be seen mid-construction in 1995. The towers have 88 storeys each, and each stand 1,483 feet above street level


A vintage postcard of 1960s Istalif

The Sagrada Familia, a fixture of the Barcelona skyline and a major tourist site, had its first stone laid in 1882 however picture was taken in 1935, with decades of work left to do.


Thursday 22 October 2015

These are the negatives for the incredible images, with the top right showing Titantic's sister ship, RMS Olympic


The snaps were taken at 12.15pm on May 31, 1911 by a Belfast businessman who was given close access to the doomed liner at the Harland and Wolff shipyard


The picture of the iceberg taken from passing German liner Prinz Adalbert has appeared in books about the disaster but an accompanying note which gives it credibility was virtually unknown until now


On the same day, the Titanic's sister ship, the RMS Olympic, that had been launched in October 1910, set off on her maiden trip to Liverpool


Never-seen-before photographs showing the launch of he ill-fated Titanic from a shipyard in Belfast


Linoenewald was the chief steward on the German liner Prinz Adalbert that passed the disaster scene on the morning of April 15. The Titanic had sunk at 2.20am on the same day.


After the official inquiry into the Titanic, pictured, disaster in which 1,523 people died, both items were framed and hung in the company's boardroom until they went out of business in 2002


Tuesday 13 October 2015

A passenger points out Piccadilly Circus on an early Underground map. The modern graphic design of the maps was first drawn up by Harry Beck in 1933


A 'new-look' London Underground station in 1960 with its long escalators


1950s PIDC Building


After the eruption of Mount Tarawera.


After the eruption of Mount Tarawera.


Pilgrims doing Tawaf – there wasn’t such a big crowd


60-70 years ago, when reaching to Hajar Al-Aswad then wasn’t hard


There was a time when every Muslim could enter the Holy Kaaba


One of the entrances to Masjid Al Haram


Streets of Makkah during the mid-1950s – you can see very few cars in the street.


Friday 2 October 2015

What a beautiful One of the oldest pictures of Hajj – From 1889


Muzdalifa – between Mina Valley and Mount Arafat


Pilgrims in Arafat during the Hajj performed in early 1900s. As per islamic concepts, entire world will be gather here on Judgement day.


The crowds of the 1900s when Hajj was performed more than 115 years ago. Such a beautiful phtoto addition for History lovers.


Fantastic Closer picture of the area that surrounded the Khana Kaa'bah close to a hundred years ago – How did people perform Hajj in such heat


A Rare Photo of Khana Kaa'bah in 1902, when at that time there's only marble surrounding the Holy Kaaba


A Lovely Photo of Makkah in 1953, when surrounding hotels and places for Pilgrims to stay during Hajj can be seen surround the Holy Kaaba


Before the age of commercial airlines being affordable for all, Pilgrims used to travel by boat and ferry – Jeddah Port


Hajj Pilgrims travelling to the Kaa'bah in 1910