The NOH and Galle in January 1988: Exquisite Images
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Joe Simpson’s Lens captures the scenes of this famous hotel and its environs in Galle at a time when Nesta Brohier was holding the reins of this iconic hotel within the Fort of Galle
The spacious front verandah-cum-lounge of the New Oriental Hotel
The main lounge of the NOH in 1988
Joe Simpsons’ Guest Room during his short stay
the old-fashioned washroom
With the swimming pool that Nesta Brohier installed in the early 1980s – now gone & replaced I’m told by a much fancier version elsewhere in the back garden where her father Len “Zambuk” Ephraums once chased a polecat!
the Inner Hallway then — keeper of a thousand secrets if walls could talk
the approach to NOH from the Entrance to the Fort
Harbour view from the NOH – image taken from the top corner room of the NOH
Harbour view from the NOH – image in early evening from same room
mosque and lighthouse in evening twilight
The Rubasinghe’s House in Middle sSreet with the NOH on the left in the far distance
A now-vanished mode of transportation in Galle Fort … Photo taken from upper floor of NOH looking down on Church Street, Jan 1988
Outriggers on beach near Galle –pr obably replaced by fibre-glass boars
Beach seine fishing , or madal, near Galle … a practice still sustained in Sri Lanka
The “Grand Old Lady”, as Joe recalls the NOH. In 1988.
