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Penang pictures 1959 (2 files)

PMR.PN-16 Malaya, Penang Island 1959: vivid Bougainvillea flowers Keywords: British colonies, Far East, tropics, island, historic, nostalgia
PMR.PN-09 Malaya, Penang Island 1959: view over Georgetown and strait with Bougainvillea in the foreground. Keywords: British colonies, nostalgia, historic, island, tropics, Far East

Travel (62 files)

PMR104-06 Egypt, Aswan: Poinsettia and Bougainvillea shrubs on Elephantine Island. Keywords: culture, flowers, colourful, picturesque, exotic, botanical
PMR103-06 Egypt, Aswan: colourful Bougainvilleas in the Municipal Park. Keywords: bushes, shrubs, exotic, botany, greenery
PMR062-10 South Africa, Western Cape Province, Cape Town: Groot Constantia Manor House, one of the finest examples of Cape Dutch architecture, dating from 1685, and centre of the oldest wine estate in South Africa -entrance with vivid bougainvillea bush in the foreground Keywords: residence, viticulture, historic, heritage, Dutch gables, tradition, museum
PMR055-12 Rhodesia, Victoria Falls: the Iron Railway Bridge spanning the Zambesi River, from the grounds of the Victoria Falls Hotel, with colourful bougainvillea in the foreground Keywords: waterfalls, cascade, water power, overflow, inundation, deluge, hydro power, blossom, shrub, vivid
PMR-D12050 Turkey, Bozburun Peninsula, Loryma: view of the bay, with bougainvillea. Keywords: Aegean , colourful, maritime, picturesque, yachts
PMR-D11997 Greece, Island of Chalki: colourful classical house facades and bougainvillea. Keywords: colourful, Dodecanese, Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque
PMR-D11989 Greece, Island of Chalki: view of the town and waterfront, with flowering bougainvillea in the foreground. Keywords: colourful, Dodecanese, Greek Islands, harbour, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, port
PMR-D11261 Turkey, Mugla, Marmaris: street in the old town with street lanterns and masses of bougainvillea. Keywords: colourful, flowers, old quarter, picturesque, traditional
PMR-D11260 Turkey, Mugla, Marmaris: street in the old town with street lantern and masses of bougainvillea Keywords: colourful, flowers, old quarter, picturesque, traditional
PMR-D11259 Turkey, Mugla, Marmaris: street in the old town with typical Turkish enclosed wooden balconies and bougainvillea. Keywords: colourful, flowers, old quarter, picturesque, traditional
PMR-D11193 Turkey, Antalya, Lycia, Kalkan: the main street, leading up the hill, with bougainvilleas. Keywords: colourful, holidays, picturesque, resort
PMR-D11141 Turkey, Lycia, Dalyan: vivid red bougainvillea against a blue sky. Keywords: blossom, botany, colourful, flowers, Mediterranean, picturesque, shrubs
PMR-D8404 Greece, Island of Paros. Parikia: vivid bougainvillea flowers in the old quarter. Keywords: Greek Islands, street scene, Paroikia, Hellas, island hopping, Cyclades, colourful, picturesque
PMR-D8395 Greece, Island of Paros. Parikia: a typical alley in the old quarter with overhanging bougainvillea flowers. Keywords: Greek Islands, picturesque, colourful, Cyclades, island hopping, Hellas, Paroikia, street scene
PMR-D8394 Greece, Island of Paros. Parikia: a typical alley in the old quarter with overhanging bougainvillea flowers. Keywords: Greek Islands, picturesque, colourful, Cyclades, island hopping, Hellas, Paroikia, street scene
PMR-D8393 Greece, Island of Paros. Parikia: church bells with a vivid bush of bougainvillea. Keywords: Greek Islands, Paroikia, Hellas, island hopping, Cyclades, colourful, picturesque
PMR-D8377 Greece, Island of Naxos: colourful bougainvillea flowers. Keywords: Greek Islands, flora, botanical, shrubs, Cyclades, island hopping, Hellas
PMR-D8335 Greece, Island of Donoussa, Mersini: attractive dwelling on the hillside, with bougainvillea and old windmill adjoining. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, colourful, Cyclades, Donousa
PMR-D7547 Morocco, Marakech: Majorelle Garden, created by Jacques Majorelle, starting in 1923. It was bought by Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé in the 1980s and replanned. The predominant shade of blue was patented by Majorelle and bears his name. Vivid red flowers of a bougainvillea shrub. Keywords: Africa, Marakesh, Islam, Muslim, Maghreb, culture, botanical, artistic, colourful
PMR-D5922 Oman: colourful Bougainvillea flowers near Wadi al Khalid. Keywords: desert city, Islam, Muslim, Arab state, Middle East, Gulf State, sultanate, blooms, bush, shrub, botany, flora
PMR-D5684 Greece, Island of Milos, Pollonia: vivid bougainvillea flowers against the blue sky. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, heritage, Cyclades, Venus de Milo, picturesque, colourful
PMR-D5603 Greece, Island of Folegandros, Chora: street bar with flowering bougainvillea and dome of Orthodox church in the background. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, heritage, Cyclades
PMR-D5597 Greece, Island of Folegandros: a church dome in Chora with palm fronds and bougainvillea flowers. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, colourful, heritage, Cyclades
PMR-D5584 Greece, Island of Santorini: distant view of Fira from the whitewashed steps of Oia. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, colourful, heritage, Cyclades, Thera, Thira, bougainvillea, caldera
PMR-D5546 Greece, Island of Santorini: doorway in Fira, with vivid bougainvillea in flower. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, colourful, heritage, Cyclades, Thera, Thira
PMR-D5539 Greece, Island of Santorini: the clock tower and dome of the Catholic cathedral in Fira, with vivid bougainvillea blooming in the foreground. Keywords: Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, picturesque, colourful, heritage, Cyclades, Thera, Thira
PMR-D5498 Greece, Island of Astypalaia: view of the harbour of Astypalaia town from above, with bougainvillea. Keywords: Dodecanese, Greek Islands, Hellas, island hopping, quayside, harbour, port, colourful, picturesque
PMR-D4648 Cambodia, Phnom Penh: Wat Phnom, founded in 1373, according to legend to house four statues of Buddha rescued from the Mekong River by Madame Penh. A monk in the grounds and bougainvillea blossom. Keywords: capital city, Khmer, kingdom, Indo-China, orient, Buddhist, metropolis, temple, colourful, gardens
PMR-D0957 Myanmar, Bagan: an anonymous zedi on Bagan Plain in late sunlight, with Bougainvillea flowers. Keywords: Buddhist, Burma, religious, colourful, architecture, picturesque, temples
PMR-D0883 Myanmar, Mandalay: Atumashi Kyaung (Monastery), built in 1857 under King Mindon Min, was burnt down in 1890. It was rebuilt in1996 using forced labour. Unusually, the roof is formed of rectangular terraces. Bougainvillea in the foreground. Keywords: Buddhist, temples, picturesque, architecture, colourful, religious, Burma
PMR-D0868 Myanmar, Mandalay: a resident washing clothes under the shade of a Bougainvillea tree, on Mandalay Hill. Keywords: Buddhist, Burma, religious, colourful, architecture, picturesque, temples
PMR-D0865 Myanmar, Mandalay: butterfly on Bougainvillea flowers, on Mandalay Hill. Keywords: Buddhist, Lepidoptera, Burma, religious, colourful, architecture, picturesque, temples
PMR-D0474 Greece, Island of Symi: yachts anchored in the bay, with bougainvillea in the foreground. Keywords: Dodecanese, Greek Islands, Hellas, harbour, yachts, fishing boats, pleasure boats, moorings, island hopping
PMR-D0472 Greece, Island of Symi: colourful tower of the Orthodox church, with bougainvillea, Symi port. Keywords: Dodecanese, Greek Islands, Hellas, harbour, yachts, fishing boats, pleasure boats, moorings, island hopping
PMR-D0455 Greece, Island of Nisyros: a street in Mandraki with colourful bougainvillea flowers. Keywords: Dodecanese, Greek Islands, Hellas, harbour, yachts, fishing boats, pleasure boats, moorings, island hopping
PMR264-12 U.S.A., Florida, Miami: Vizcaya, a villa in the 16th century Italian Renaissance style, built 1914-16 for millionaire James Deering. View of the villa from the south east garden, with terrace and Bougainvilleas. Keywords: historic, national heritage, architecture, culture, picturesque, residence
PMR-D4037 People's Republic of China, Yunnan Province, Kunming: Brown-breasted Bulbuls (Pycnonotus xanthorrhous) in the bougainvillea trees in Green Lake Park. Keywords: Middle Kingdom, Asian, culture, picturesque, metropolitan, flowering trees, colourful, wild birds, ornithology
PMR-D3957 People's Republic of China, Yunnan Province, Kunming: bougainvillea blossom and other ornamental foliage in Green Lake Park. Keywords: Middle Kingdom, Asian, culture, heritage, picturesque, metropolitan, flowering trees, botany, colourful, flora
PMR190-09 Italy, Campania, Isle of Capri: a corner of the Piazza Umberto with clocktower and bougainvillea. Keywords: picturesque, heritage, architecture, street scene, crowded, market square, historic
PMR146K-21 Thailand, Chonburi, Pattaya: North Pattaya and floating restaurants, with Bougainvillea flowers in the foreground. Keywords: holiday resort, Siam, seaside, picturesque, temples, Buddhist, sunshine, night life, beach
PMR145K-34 Myanmar, Bagan: Gaw Palin Pahto (60 metres high), one of the largest Bagan temples, generally regarded as the "crowning achievement of the late period", with flowering Bougainvillea in the foreground. Keywords: Buddhist, temples, picturesque, architecture, colourful, religious, Burma
PMR690-04 Thailand, Chonburi: hotels of North Pattaya, with Bougainvillea and Frangipani blossom in the foreground, from Buddha Hill lookout. Keywords: holiday resort, Siam, seaside, picturesque, temples, Buddhist, sunshine, night life, beach
PMR493-11 Island of Crete, Harnia: a small remnant of the town walls, overgrown with Bougainvillea and Oleander. Keywords: mediaeval, colourful, architecture, national heritage, picturesque
PMR491-11 Island of Santorini, Oia: vivid red and white Bougainvillea provides a riot of colour on the front wall of a traditional house. Keywords: pedestrian zone, colourful, picturesque, old quarter, photogenic
PMR491-09 Island of Santorini, Oia: blue and pink belltower of a church enhanced by brilliant Bougainvillea flowers and cacti over the door. Keywords: pedestrian zone, Orthodox, hilltop site, colourful, picturesque, traditional houses, old quarter, photogenic
PMR490-10 Island of Santorini: blue-domed church with Bougainvillea growing on the wall, in Oia. Keywords: pedestrian zone, flowering, flowers, hilltop site, colourful, picturesque, traditional houses, old quarter, photogenic
PMR489-02 Island of Santorini, Fira: cruise ships anchored in the "Caldera" below Fira, with a Bougainvillea terrace in the foreground. Keywords: photogenic, picturesque, colourful, vista
PMR139K-17 Greece, Island of Patmos: a flowering bougainvillea in a corner of the Monastery of St. John the Theologian, founded in 1088 near to the cave where St. John of Patmos had a series of visions which he recorded at length. Keywords: Greek Isles, whitewashed walls, Greek Orthodox Church, yachts, colourful, picturesque, Ionian Islands, Dodecanese, Helenic, Hellas, island hopping
PMR123K-25 United Arab Emirates, Dubai: hotels and apartment blocks with colourful bougainvillea shrubs in their gardens, fronting on to the lake in the Burj Khalifa development. Keywords: modern architecture, skyscrapers, desert city, high rise buildings, Islam, Muslim, Arab, Arab state, air conditioning, lawn sprinklers
PMR122K-05 Thailand, Pattaya: carved and gilded gables of the Buddhist Temple at Naban, Koh Larn Island (formerly Coral Island), with Bougainvillea bush in the foreground. Keywords: holiday resort, Siam, seaside, picturesque, temples, Buddhist, sunshine, night life, beach
PMR121K-35 Thailand, Pattaya: some of the figures surrounding the Buddha in Wat Big Buddha, with a bi-coloured Bougainvillea bush. Keywords: holiday resort, beach, night life, sunshine, Buddhist, temples, picturesque, seaside, Siam
PMR102K-13 Chile, Parinacota, Arica: Founded by the Spanish in 1541, the city is surrounded by the Atacama Desert, enjoys minimal rainfall, and is known as "the city of eternal spring, where the sun shines every day". Until 1880 it was part of Peru. Bust of Cristobal Colón (Christopher Columbus) backed by a red bougainvillea in the Plaza Colón. Keywords: Pacific Coast, monument, statue, sculpture
PMR087K-07 Croatia, Dalmatia, Split: Diocletian's Palace, built by the Roman Emperor between 295 and 305 AD in a square format with side walls of about 200 metres. Most of the walls and substantial parts of the inner constructions have been preserved. Here: a colourful Bougainvillea, spreading itself right across a square within the Roman walls of the palace. Keywords: national heritage, Yugoslavia, Roman architecture, mediaeval, picturesque, historic town
PMR083K-36 Cyprus (North), Nicosia: Büyük Han, an Ottoman caravanserai dating from 1572, the only one to have survived in Cyprus. It is now used as a market for local artisans to sell their wares. Here, one of the upper galleries with the courtyard below, and a Bougainvillea in a pot. Keywords: Lefkosia, galleries, arches, architecture, heritage, historic, albergo, inn, Turkish
PMR045K-23 Panama: Distant view of Panama City from the end of the Amador Causeway, with ornamental flowering bougainvilleas.
PMR074K-33 Spain, Fuerteventura, Pájara: shade-giving palm trees with masses of brilliant Bougainvillea in the background. Keywords: Canary Islands, sunshine, holidays, leisure, volcanic, park, gardens
PMR074K-32 Spain, Fuerteventura, Pájara: shade-giving palm trees with masses of brilliant Bougainvillea in the background. Keywords: Canary Islands, gardens, park, volcanic, leisure, holidays, sunshine
PMR073K-31 Spain, Lanzarote, Tahiche: the Fundación César Manrique, former home of the artist, now open to the public. Here: one of the squat onion domes, with blossom-covered Bougainvillea. Keywords: Canary Islands, sunshine, holidays, leisure, volcanic
PMR386-03 Australia, Queensland, Gladstone: Australia's fifth largest port, Gladstone exports principally coal and alumina from a natural harbour. View of the marina and river mouth from the park lookout, with Bougainvillea flowers in the foreground. Keywords: shipping, docks, raw materials, coal handling, exports
PMR382-05 Australia, Northern Territory: display of Bougainvilleas at the "Heart Break Hotel", Cape Crawford. Keywords: outback, wildlife, flora and fauna, wilderness, bush, nature, natural, geology, vegetation, savannah, ecology, biotope, tropical
PMR562-7 Australia, Queensland, Longreach: Australian Stockman's Hall of Fame, opened by the Queen in 1988, is a museum cum exhibition celebrating the outback; with Bougainvillea flowers in the foreground. Keywords: architecture, modern architecture
PMR584-12 Guatemala, Antigua: Fuente de Pescados, a star-shaped fountain in the deserted cloisters of the church of La Merced, Antigua, from the roof gallery. With bougainvillea.