ouphrontis:Photographs of RAF Depot, Karachi‘The Depot is dreary, to a degree, and its ba
ouphrontis:Photographs of RAF Depot, Karachi‘The Depot is dreary, to a degree, and its background makes me shiver. It is a desert, very like Arabia: and all sorts of haunting likenesses (pack-donkeys, the colour and cut of men’s clothes, an oleander bush in flower in the valley, camel-saddles, tamarisk) try to remind me of what I’ve been for eight years desperately fighting out of my mind. Even I began to doubt if the coming out here was wise. However there wasn’t much chance, and it must be made to do. It will do, as a matter of fact, easily.’ - T.E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw, 1927‘My walks, as I said, are only over the aerodrome, a mile-square flat place, (just faintly tinted green, with colocynth runners now over the sand) between the main railway and a dry, four-mile wide valley, of sand-ridges overgrown with dust-coloured tamarisk. At the end of the aerodrome is a stony bank, perhaps twenty feet high, on which I sit beside a cactus, and look back at the camp, from here rather like a broken Roman aqueduct, with its rows of dark arches on two stories, and a flat roof of loricated Marseilles tiles above. North of the railway is a mass of building, married quarters, officers houses, mess, and hospital. Unattractive, since it has no plan, no raison dtre or focus, like a grown village. This has been deliberately planned, and fails to justify its creator.’ - T.E. Lawrence to Charlotte Shaw 1927More photos here. -- source link
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