Thursday, October 28, 2010

ဟိုးတုန္းက-၂

ဟိုတုန္းက ပံုအေဟာင္းေလးေတြကို ေတြ႔တာနဲ႔ စုေဆာင္းထားခ်င္တာရယ္၊ ေလ့လာလိုသူေတြ အတြက္ရယ္ကို ရည္ရြယ္ၿပီး မူရင္းအတိုင္း တင္ထားေပးထား ပါတယ္ ............

A myanmar Timber worker in front of his tent, Madaya district in Mandalay (1923-24 - Bombay Burma Timber Company). Bombay Burma is the company which started the extraction of Myanmar forest products in large scale in the time of British rule.

Myanmar timber elephants and their trainers (Sin Hteins) in Madaya township of Mandalay division (1923-24 - Bombay Burma Timber Company). Bombay Burma is the company which started the extraction of Myanmar forest products in large scale in the time of British rule.

Myanmar timber elephants and their trainers (Sin Hteins) in Madaya township of Mandalay division (1923-24 - Bombay Burma Timber Company). Bombay Burma is the company which started the extraction of Myanmar forest products in large scale in the time of British rule.

Myanmar ladies of middle class family dressed up for photo shoot in a Yangon photo shop. The time was before war 2 arrived Yangon, around 1937-39. They came to photo studio without letting their parents know. This picture shows the clothes popular in Yangon in the 1930's.

Another photo showing a Myanmar lady of pre world war 2 time in Yangon. Clothes and style of life in those days are different from now.


A photo of a Myanmar man with a B.A degree from Rangoon University, before world war 2 (1936-38). At that time B.A degree holders were in small number. Many of those graduates would seek jobs in the government offices such as educational bodies and district or provincial governing council.

Famous Shwesandaw (Shwe San Daw) pagoda of Pyay before world war 2. Pyay is located on the eastern bank of the Ayeyarwaddy river. Tourists who travel by road from Yangon to Bangan will pass Pyay. Several basic to standard range tourist accommodations are available in Pyay.


The eldest brother was ordained as a novice. His younger sisters and brothers sat around to post for a photo. It was during the second world war in Yangon under japaneses occupation (1943-44).

The road to Sagaing crosses the Ayeyarwaddy river on this sixteen span Inwa bridge which is well over a km long. Opened in 1934 the bridge was put out of action by the British in 1942 when they demolished two spans in order to deny the bridge to the advancing Japanese. Not until 1954 was the bridge repaired and put back into operation. There's toll to take cars across the bridge which also Thanlyin bridge in 1993.

ဟိုးတုန္းက-၁

ဟိုတုန္းက ပံုအေဟာင္းေလးေတြကို ေတြ႔တာနဲ႔ စုေဆာင္းထားခ်င္တာရယ္၊ ေလ့လာလိုသူေတြ အတြက္ရယ္ကို ရည္ရြယ္ၿပီး မူရင္းအတိုင္း တင္ေပးထား ပါတယ္ .............
Mandalay hill photo taken around 1953. located closed to the Mandalay palace, it is now one of the many tourist attractions in the second largest city of Myanmar. from the top people can have a good bird eye views of the city and its surrounding.
Mandalay palace photo taken around 1953. Located close to the Mandalay hill, it is now one of the many tourist attraction in the second largest city of Myanmar. The palace complex was destroyed by the fire during the word war2. The palace wall, city gate and the surrounding moat still present.

Shwedagon pagoda in Yangon in 1950's. It is one of the highlights of all package tours to Yangon. The 98 meters (326 Ft) high pagoda built on a hill is believed to be one of the earliest pagodas of Gautama Buddha era. It had been built on the Singottara hill more than 2500 years ago.

Yangon city center in 1950's. You can see Sule pagoda, the independence monument, colonial buildings, and the Yangon river in the back ground.

A Myanmar Style wooden house in San Chaung township of Yangon (1948-50). The front part which is a bit lower than the main house is used to keep footwares, umbrellas, brooms, flower posts, etc. It is also the place where people sit in recling chairs and read newspapers and books.


Myit Kyo river in Bago division seen in 1950's. Log refting can be seen on the river.
Timber elephants at work in sitttaung river near Taungoo (1951-1955)
Timber elephant at work in Swa township in Taungoo (1951-1955)

Two timber elephants pulling logs together in tandem in Taungoo (1951-1955)

A timber elephant pulling logs in Swa township, in Taungoo, Myanmar (1951-1955)

Timber elephants on the highway in Swa township in Taungoo Myanmar (1951-1955)



Myanmar timber workers, their elephants, and teak logs for sending oversea. Swa, Taungoo township. Between 1951 and 1955.

A large teak log for sending overseas. Myanmar (Burmese) timber workers and their elephants
(behind the log) posing for photograpg in Swa, Taungoo township (1951-1955)