Photographs by Michael Roberts during visits to his old stamping ground

the lighthouse and mosque on the southern side

rampart street south  section of the western c part of the western walls sidewalk on western face near Girl’s Bathing Place the south western corner with site of old lighthouse at far end

 inner rampart terrain –idle kid’s hide and seek area

 The Judge’s Bungalow… now an Army camp

GALLE AS QUIET AS ASLEEP

                                                                   By     NORAH ROBERTS

 

SECOND EDITION with new cover from the classic mural painting of Galle Fort & Port in the 19^th century by Donald Friend as well as 33 new images at the end of the book including

• Capt. Bayly’s billiard room at Closenburg, 1966
• Fort rooftop skyline & Church Street, 1890s
• Rampart waterline by Luxshmanan Nadaraja
• Dutch Presbyterian Church & other pictures by Dominic Sansoni
• Central bus stand, cricket grounds and Fort walls after the tsunami as back cover

Colombo: Vijitha Yapa Publications, 2005

499 pages                               ISBN 955-8095-85