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Depends on whether you have set red on blue at Khartoum.
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Having, unfortunately, experience of both stations, the El Adem off-topic excursion begs the question as to what happened to the 'Royal Bog'? Did it remain in solitary splendour, or was it dismantled brick-by-brick for return to Stores?
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Around Khormaksar in quieter times -1962/3
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Fisherman's Bay - 1962/3 Once acclimatised, I thoroughly enjoyed my tour there. Loads of flying with schedules to Nairobi and Riyan- Salalah - Masirah and of course lots of upcountry support to the Army and Federal troops. Start work at 0700, finish at 1300 and off to Tarshyne for loads of surfing, in the season (shark net removed), avoiding the sharks. Locals friendly then. My parents lived in Nairobi and I could get home twice a month and of course spend my leave in the glorious climate there. All photos taken with a Topcon Reflex camera. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4fc41a6d3.jpeg Sira Fort- Turkish built - 1962/3 Holkat Bay https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....130b3d72b.jpeg Fisherman's Bay 1962/3 https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....21b96a22c.jpeg Fisherman's Bay 1962/3 https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f2c3e9653.jpeg Fisherman's Bay 1962/3 https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6d0425675.jpeg Fisherman's Bay 1962/3 https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2f916008e.jpeg Towards Crater - Turkish built forts. 1962/3 https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....28056718e.jpeg Fisherman's Bay 1962/3 https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....99ad1de46.jpeg Maala waterfont - 1962/3 https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5c481460c.jpeg Maala waterfont - 1962/3 |
I bet they were still singing Ma'ala Mary then!
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The nature of the place (and the Service) in the mid '50s inevitably gave it a 'Wild West' atmosphere, flying-wise. One of the local flying 'time-fillers' for the 'Pigs' was low level along the beach road to see how many local vehicles could be 'persuaded' into the surf to avoid a head-on. One particularly adept was Don H, who 'claimed' a double success, having left the scene low-level behind the sand dunes, turned around and 'bagged' the same machine a second time as it came over the dunes looking for what they thought would be a crash site! Unfortunately, in spite of their proximity, they failed to notice the Union flag flying from the Land Rover mudguard!!! The Governor, Sir Tom Hickinbotham, was not amused and young F/O H was installed in the Adjutant's office for 6 months with NO flying. Many years later, on the day I joined BA, I noticed the company news sheet announcing the retirement of one Captain Don H... - I wonder?
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Ferry Flight:Khormaksar -Little Staughton, Bedfordshire
In July 1962 we ferried Valetta VW 200 ( Captained by F/L Keith Webster) from Khormaksar to Wadi Halfa and then on to, El Adem, Luqa, Orange, Lyneham ( Cliffe Pypard 4 star transit accommodation) and then Little Staughton Maintenance Unit. Two days off in the UK and then, B.Cal (I think) Britannia back to Khormaksar. Routing from Khormaksar to Perim Island and then direct Wadi Halfa. Wadi Halfa airfield was to become submerged by the waters from Nasser's dam in later years. Lovely hotel on the banks of the Nile and I remember sitting out in the 'cool' of the evening, having a few drinks marvelling at the multiplicity of extremely bright stars overhead.
From Wadi Halfa, West to, what we called, the Queen of Sheba's tits, or more correctly called Jebel Unewat at the corner of Egypt, Libya and Sudans' borders. The Queen of Sheba was well placed to give a concrete fix of our position as my dodgy navigation consistently of Air Plot, Drift sight and Sun position lines. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....61aa27c9f.jpeg Putting the aircraft to bed for overnight stay. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....98f2cb5c8.jpeg Airport, now submerged by waters from Nasser's Dam https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....a16761dbe.jpeg Terrain en-route Wadi halfa to El Adem https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6a6d56100.jpeg Hotel at Wadi Halfa. |
Do you mean VX200 as XV200 was a Hercules C1
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spitfirek5054. You are quite correct- Thanks
Silly boy, I got stuck in Herc mode. Correct number from my log book is 'VW200'. Post amended. |
Mail Drop Socotra Island
We were tasked to fly to Riyan, collect a letter and a W/T Operator and take them to Socotra Island. The letter, addressed to the Sultan, was dropped in a weighted mail sack with parachute, on what appeared to be the main square in Hadibo, the capital. It was hoped, that the letter would reach the Sultan safely and transportation sent to collect the W/T operator. The W/T operator was to reinstate the failed communication link at Hadibo.
After the mail drop we flew about 10nm west to the airstrip at Ras Karma, a disused WW2 field. No ATC here and after a low pass to check the runway for goats and debris, landed safely on the rough surface. Here we left the W/T Operator with food and water in the hope that the letter had been read and transportation sent to pick him up. I never heard the outcome save the intelligence summary shown below which states that the W/T operator had repaired the radio and was not left to die in the desert! A/C flown by F/L Williams and F/L Locke 233 Sqn RAF Khormaksar https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....27cc17d68.jpeg Ras Karma airfield. Constructed in WW2 https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....611083288.jpeg Intelligence report https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ecbe4f150.jpeg WW2 buildings at Ras Karma https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....58b4fe9ba.jpeg WW2 buildings at Ras Karma and our Valetta VW195 https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....937d829bd.jpeg WW2 a/c wreckage. Far one possibly a Lockheed Lodestar. Ppruners will let me know? |
Anorak on:- Blenheim V I think....Wellington/Warwick in the foreground.
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A very long shot I know but could the geodesic airframe conceivably be a Wellesley?
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Found this piece on the internet from 'WW2 Peoples War'. Blenheim aircraft were certainly used there
'To assess the possibility of a staging post aircraft landing site on the island of Socotra, situated off the Horn of Africa in the Indian Ocean, two Blenheim 1 aircraft from RAF Khormaksar, Aden were stripped of non essential equipment inside the fuselage, such as gun turrets and armour plating, to allow extra fuel tanks and hand pump to be fitted to transfer the fuel to the main tanks for flight to Socotra. A refuelling site comprising sealed cans of fuel was also set up in Somaliland. We landed on the beach on the north coast of the island,near the village of Hadibo. (The same site was used by an expedition to the island in the 1960's) The aircraft had to be flown very close to the cliffs to secure sufficient landing distance, the updraft made it very tricky. The undercarriage took a bashing, the tail wheel strut on the second aircraft damaged the rear fuselage when landing. We had to carry out repairs on site. It was very difficult work without having a proper workshop, and very hot crawling down the fuselage just like working in an oven. When we landed, we selected a suitable site, secured the two aircraft, pitched our tents, constructed primitive ablutions, cooking facilities and prepared waste disposal trenches. Bathing was on the sea shore in the evenings even that was quite dangerous because the beach dropped away very quickly. Early reconnaissance indicated that we would need to travel along the rugged coastline westwards before there was access to the centre of the island. We eventually secured the services of locals and used camels to trek along the coast and to climb through a rock strewn gully (possibly Wadi Eyaft) to a plateau with our gear. We lost one camel plus stores on route, when it lost foot hold and plunged into the sea below. We found a suitable site where future aircraft could land, and cleared the area of the larger obstacles. The locals obtained their water from wells, but we found it to be very contaminated. Our return trip to Hadibo was uneventful, as was the return flight to Aden. The whole trip covered about fourteen days. The Americans were expected to use the strip as a staging post. Today 2005 this aircraft landing site is a tarmac runway. In June 1999, the first Yemenia Airlines Boeing 737 landed there,and Aircraft make regular trips to the island from Sanna, Yemen. This new facility has made the archipelago easily accessible after centuries of virtual isolation. Other recent developments include the first paved road, a port jetty, fuel storage facilities, new schools, improved telecommunication facilities, limited power supply in the central village of Hadibu, and the opening of small rest-houses. These developments and others have already brought positive changes to the lives of local people. However, these developments also threaten the survival of the islands' unique biodiversity, culture, traditions, and striking landscapes.The island is becoming popular with people interested in the wild life there and diving trips are arranged from the north coast'. |
I suspect I did a resupply drop on the Hadibo airstrip to the expedition mentioned above on 29 March 1967 - 4 1-Ton containers and 5 Harness Packs. This was with an Argosy of 105 Sqn, and I take the implicit point about how far Socotra is from Aden as we had to return via Riyan to refuel. This was the last pack being readied to go, looking back from my position in the nose:
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My vote is a Wellington and a Blenheim V.
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Most fascinating read. Thanks for all those memories, pictures and documents. Some different age it seems.
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Great pics Deano, 10 years after my time. The well drilling was fairly new I think, I remember the camels wearily plodding around a circular track pulling a heavy round stone for milling or powering a simple pump to raise water from a well. Khormaksar water came by pipeline 12 miles from Sheikothman so a siege of the base would not have been difficult. The pictures of Fisherman's Bay and Maala recall everything but the smells ...
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Just as well the smells cannot be encapsulated. They were extreme and probably quite a disease ridden place as well. Who knows what was growing there!
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Until I left home many years later an unfortunate downdraught would bring the word "Maala" bellowed up the stairs, the family code for 'open the bathroom window'. One day the minister was visiting when my brother shouted Maala! to whoever was enthroned at the time. My mother didn't bat an eyelid, remarking to the bewildered cleric that it was Arabic for "come and meet our visitor' :O
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If you scroll to the end of this section of the ARDET (Argosy Detachment) website, there are some graphic pics showing how some facilities on the station had deteriorated by 1998. Memory suggests they include the former MRT Wing hangar.
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Re Beihan - I remember we used to buy quite brightly coloured rugs dyed with vegetable dyes in Beihan..
Does anyone remember Beihan ‘chairs’ ? As I recall, although it was fifty odd years ago, a Beihan chair was a kind of circular belt thing that you wrapped round your nether regions and your knees and which enabled you to sort of squat without falling over. |
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Courtesy Google earth, here is Khormaksar as it is this year. The runway 08-26 runs above the top edge of the picture but the hangars and RAF buildings look to be in ruins. The three barrack blocks are quite distinctive and the east half of the lower one has been demolished. In the early 1950s roads and I think the runway were packed gypsum. These AMQ semis with their cool verandahs front and rear and kitchen built onto one end seem to be little changed, and the Patch road layout is unchanged although buildings cover what I remember as acres of desert. The Families' Club is now a supermarket, across the Sheikothman Road are more married quarters but I can't remember their layout and even the former Aden Protectorate Levy lines have been redeveloped. I'm quite pleased to find that 167W, our house in the corner of the Patch is still standing almost 70 years since I first saw it. I wonder if anyone remembers our Brigand pilot neighbour F/Sgt Cramp in 167E? https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....47c1827fba.jpg |
Officers' Mess Khormaksar
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IIRC the Mess is a little to the South of your mark. In the centre in front of the buildings (south) you can make out the ruins of the Jungle Bar where many a good night was to be had. Very sad to see as it brings back some fine memories. (N12.817877 E045.030029). Scars on the ground where the old air-conditioned accommodation was situated, just 50yds to the north of the West Wing. That was luxurious living but you had to wait for it, in my case 6 months. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cb81148cb3.jpg |
I wonder if the Jungle Bar is still outside the Officers' Mess!
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Thanks Deano, your nav is better than mine, I had another look at my photo #775 which shows the OM quite clearly. The development in 70 years is amazing, I recall nothing east of the camp except the APL lines but the 2020 satellite view shows it packed tight with property.
School ended at lunchtime and when our parents couldn't/wouldn't stump up the shilling fare for the Bedford QL gharri to Steamer Point lido we took the one-mile track to the camp pool on the fantastic beach along the east side of the Aden peninsula. Pool has long gone and beach is now the Layali Dubai Tourist Park. Station standing orders decreed that personnel and families should not swim off the beach which was home to shark, sting ray, barracuda and venomous sea snakes, but we did. On the way back we could wander into the civil airport to inspect transit BOAC Argonauts, Hermes and beautiful TWA Constellations, together with Daks operated by Aden Airways and Ethiopian Air Lines. There was no taxiway so no time was wasted on backtracking, with a burst of outboard the Daks spun round in front of the RAF hangars and lifted the tail for their trip back to the civvy apron. We once found a friendly baby camel wandering near the pool and took it home with a view to keeping it on the back verandah but our parents wouldn't allow it. Who needed Facebook, Instagram or TikTok? The height of excitement for me was the rare Saturday morning parked beside a Brigand with a bowl of petrol, a couple of brushes and 72 plugs from its Bristol Centauri. Today this would be considered dangerous child exploitation leading to lasting trauma in adulthood which probably explains a lot … Only aircon we knew was when my dad pinched the cooling trolley used to lower aircraft temps before departure and ran its long hose into the flight offices. I suppose we became accustomed to the heat; the houses were well designed and are still doing their job today. Inside we slept on a charpoy, the wooden frame strung with rattan netting, just as we had in India four years before. To avoid company at night we sometimes stood the legs in Players 50-cigs tins part filled with paraffin which deterred the ants and the few cockroaches which escaped Ahmed, my pet land crab. I see Aden's average temp is around 32C with humidity 70%. People pay good money to obtain higher temps than this in Spain, Turkey or Greece, too hot for me so if lockdown ends we'll maybe try the Layali Dubai Tourist Park, doesn't seem too busy at present :hmm: |
My thanks to all contributors for fascinating stories and photos. I missed all these Arabian Nights, after a posting to somewhere (was it Salalah? Masirah?) was cancelled, so my ‘adventurous’ Overseas Tour had to be endured in the air-conditioned luxury of the O/Mess at Tengah.
Oh, what postings there were in those days! From my ATCO course at Shawbury, I remember one plt off went to El Adem. And several contemporaries enjoyed their time in assorted sandy places ... and Borneo. I feel a faint pang of guilt for not having served in any of those ‘less comfortable’ places. All I can claim is 4 months at Stanley in ‘83 and a couple of weeks in a tent up-country in Malaya in ‘69. |
Around Khormaksar in quieter times -1962/3
A few more photos of the area:
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....371947b21.jpeg Windmills on salt pans to the North https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....09391dbd6.jpeg Windmills on salt pans to the North https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4f4e2af0d.jpeg Harbour looking towards Steamer Point https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1e79963b8.jpeg Little Aden Oil Refinery with Mt. Shamsan in the distance https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5f9327db1.jpeg Looking back at Mt. Shamsan from the East en route to Little Aden |
Photos taken en route to Lahej 1962
These photos were taken North of Khormaksar in 1962, when you could wander freely and safely on the road to Lahej.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4134eda02.jpeg My trusty Lambretta (Air conditioned). Purchased new and pristine but after 2 years covered in rust just like all the duty free cars that were bought and taken back to the UK. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....072dbdc3a.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6bd160ee1.jpeg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fefe14dd8.jpeg https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b57a56e46.jpeg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9a9181f18.jpeg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....be2a81e88.jpeg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ef2389d75.jpeg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....aa921b875.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ba2e315d9.jpeg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6388c4194.jpeg https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7c30d876d.jpeg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....565aa3dc2.jpeg Aden mobile recycling programme - anything consumed |
Not strictly K'sar. but very relevant to the area and its primary role activities, last Sunday's BBC R4 'Last Words' programme carried an obituary for James Nash, amongst other activities, one of the 'Political Officers' who roamed the 'up-country' Protectorate, providing liaison with the local rulers. They were all 'characters' and he, apparently, was among the more flamboyant. For those who know the area , well worth a listen.
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Thanks Deano for the most atmospheric set of Aden photos I have seen, as I said earlier you have captured everything of that desolate place but the smells! Incidentally, during a stay in hospital a few years back my fellow patient Abdul was born in Steamer Point and left as a teenager in 1966 as the Arabs began expelling their British oppressors, oddly enough choosing to settle in the homeland of said oppressors. Normally very chatty he would not talk about the rebellion at all but spent ages poring through my old photos. I was intrigued that he pronounced Ah-den as in sad-den rather than Ay-den as we have always called it.
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'Cornish Jack' - Whilst researching John Nash found this article
In the year of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth’s Diamond Jubilee, the following article recalls highlights of her visit to Aden in 1954. We are indebted to Dr Carol Downer for all but one of the b/w illustrations which accompany the text. These have been reproduced from the commemorative album belonging to her father, the late Air Marshal S.O. Bufton, who was closely involved with the Queen’s visit. |
Originally Posted by DeanoP
(Post 10913101)
These photos were taken North of Khormaksar in 1962, when you could wander freely and safely on the road to Lahej.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4134eda02.jpeg My trusty Lambretta (Air conditioned). Purchased new and pristine but after 2 years covered in rust just like all the duty free cars that were bought and taken back to the UK. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....072dbdc3a.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6bd160ee1.jpeg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fefe14dd8.jpeg https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b57a56e46.jpeg https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....9a9181f18.jpeg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....be2a81e88.jpeg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ef2389d75.jpeg https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....aa921b875.jpeg https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....ba2e315d9.jpeg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....6388c4194.jpeg https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7c30d876d.jpeg https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....565aa3dc2.jpeg Aden mobile recycling programme - anything consumed Have to say, it seems very unstable, just as does the current US trade imbalance. Reality does seep in, eventually. |
'Without Glory In Arabia: The British Retreat from Aden' by Peter Hinchcliffe, John Ducker and Maria HoltReference Etudiant's observation: ' Images of a striking disconnect between the locals and their British overlords.' The paragraphs below are taken from the title article and gives some of the reasons for the disconnect: Britain's retreat from Aden was not determined by Islamic radicalism but by Arab nationalism, Nasser's ambitions, the Yemen Revolution, worldwide anti-imperialism, lukewarm American support, successive sterling crises and ultimately a failure of will. Although successive 20th century British governments accepted imperial disengagement as inevitable, it became an article of faith that the Aden military base must be retained at almost any cost. By 1961, as HQ Middle East Command, it maintained 15,000 British servicemen with wide ranging strategic responsibilities - above all the Gulf's oil. Military expenditure took absolute priority. Little Aden's Falaise Camp (completed just as we left) cost thirty six times the entire 1964/67 Federal development budget. If Nasser was Britain's bugbear, Aden became its albatross. Turnbull described the ill fated Federation (designed to unify and safeguard Aden and the tribal states) as a 'ramshackle contrivance'. But in principle the concept had long been supported by Arab nationalists and eventually became the catalyst for the modern Yemen Republic. Unfortunately, Britain's model was flawed due largely to its policy of cynical parsimony that had created an unbridgeable economic, political and social chasm between Aden and the Protectorate and an unworkable constitution that gave unelected tribal rulers excessive powers and over-representation. |
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Another look back to more peaceful times 70 years ago when young lads could go fishing on their afternoons off. These were two of my father's National Servicemen who went after the sting rays off the salt pans north of the airfield. The rays would lie peacefully half-buried in sand and woe betide anyone who stood on them, for their tails with needle-sharp barb would lash upwards and easily penetrate a leg artery -- fair enough, many would say. One of these lads had a narrow escape when a Buckmaster (Brigand two-seat trainer) spun in beside his fishing post and he received minor burns in a rescue attempt which of course was in vain. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....99295f9dc5.jpg |
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Thanks for that Brakedwell. I passed through in '64, with my parents, returning from Australia by boat. All fairly peaceful. However, just over three years later, coming out to fly Westland's finest, we never got airborne without PPE. No, not facemasks and aprons, but firearms and flak-vests.
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Photos by F/L Keith Webster 233 Sqn pilot.
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3b89d5d24.jpeg Ali Mohsan Mohammed our squadron runner. The purveyor of many delicious rolls from Neddy's Bar in the terminal building. Often wonder what became of him after withdrawal https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c8d289b5a.jpeg Drinks Bill. Registered because it might be a final reminder for payment? |
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HMT Dunera dropped us off at Steamer Point and continued to Malaya with a Scottish battalion on their way to deal with the emergency there. Newly arrived families were allocated a bungalow in one of two terraces at the north end of the Patch, being given a house when one became available. With bamboo thatching and a shuttered verandah the bungalows were quite cool to live in. You lucky folk who went to Aden later will remember them as squadron offices; as far as I can see from Google, they are still standing. |
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Aden Protectorate Levies. Photos taken near the threshold of Rwy 26 Khormaksar https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2099b44d8.jpeg https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....19aa99f735.jpg Near the salt pans https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....8b8693c9e.jpeg More recycling in the back streets of Crater |
The Cisterns of Tawila, Crater, Aden
Photos taken in 1962 of these ancient cisterns. Wikipedia gives a lot of information, some of which is copied below:
“Regarding the original construction of which nothing is accurately known…” There is indeed little hard evidence and there are few reliable sources of information about the Tanks. One favored hypothesis is that Himyar, a pre-Islamic Arabian kingdom that ruled parts of Yemen from 115 B.C. to 525 A.D., started to build water tanks in the area that eventually became the Cisterns of Tawila. The Himyarites are known to have employed water-catchment tanks in other areas under their rule. The proposed Himyaritic origins of the tanks may help explain a recessed, rectangular area in the Coghlan tank that, according to the Director of the site, could have been used in pre-Islamic times for animal sacrifice (a ritual that the Himyarites were known to perform for a variety of occasions, including drought).[1] The Tanks were mentioned in some manuscripts after the coming of Islam to Yemen in the 7th century A.D. “Aden has Tanks that store water when the rain falls,” wrote Al-Hamdani in the 10th century.[2] Al-Makdsi, writing three centuries later, also recorded the presence of wells and cisterns in Aden.[3] By the time of the Rasulid dynasty (1229-1454 A.D.), the Tanks had fallen into disrepair. However, the Rassulids recognized the utility of the Tanks and began to restore them.[4] This restoration has led some to claim that the Rassulids built the Tanks, thereby obscuring what are, in all probability, the far more ancient origins of the Tanks. After the Rassulids, the Tanks once again fell into disrepair, damaged by flooding and neglect and filled with the rubble of successive floods. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....62bb0051c.jpeg Cisterns of Tawila 1962 https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....dc54f1d37.jpeg Cisterns of Tawila 1962 https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5f73ecd7a.jpeg Cisterns of Tawila 1962 https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....fc1fdca27.jpeg Cisterns of Tawila 1962 https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....398348471.jpeg From Wikipedia https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cf3b8312a.jpeg Visitors at the Cisterns |
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