Visited my father yesterday, found this on a side table.
My questions are…
1) What do you think this is?
2)Where was it taken?
3)When?
What, where, when
Visited my father yesterday, found this on a side table.
My questions are…
1) What do you think this is?
2)Where was it taken?
3)When?
Boadicea's Chariot 
It’s a great photo, Soutie.
Taking a wild guess: a taxi rank outside an airport in Rhodesia, 1940s. 🙂
They had this sort of transport in Durban in the 50’s. The only difference was they were pulled by Zulu’s.
My money remains with Durban area. In between wars or even before that?
I will take a very wild guess…
Rickshaw stand somewhere in Kenya in the 1940s.
Morning all.
I have frequently mentioned that my dad served with the RAF during WWII, the back of the photo (which by the way is one of those ‘pocket size’ pics 3 x 2 inches (7 x 5cm)) simply says-
Taxi Rank
Bombay
1943
We thought it hilarious 🙂
Durban Rickshaws
They still have them, a tourist attraction operating along the Durban beachfront. Toc is quite right, all pulled by Zulus dressed in the most outlandish regalia!
You can read more about them here on the official Durban site.
It even includes advice on fares and tips!
(Durban has apparently been renamed eThekwini… don’t ask 😉 )
Well I got the taxi rank and the decade – so I was only a few thousand miles off course!
They are still a common feature in Calcutta – but the Rickshaw wallahs looked rather too dark for Bengalis. Probably South Indians working as rickshaw wallahs, as Maharashtrians are lighter, although of course a life in the sun there turns a European walnut brown.
On New Year’s Day I saw a rickshaw operating in Edinburgh, which is a neat role reversal of our colonial past. I couldn’t wait long enough to catch an Indian visitor hailing it, unfortunately.
“Taxi drivers ponder their future after falling victim to the latest hit by a team of International horse thieves.”
Victoria Station in 3 years time when the governments green policies come home to roost.
There are certain neighbourhoods in San Francisco where things like that are frequently seen…
“Rickshaw wallahs on strike as flipflops are priced out of the market?”