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Description: | Looking across open ground towards a European bungalow, probably in the cantonment, in Ambala, from the Elgin Collection: 'Spring Tours 1894-98'. This is a later print (1890s) of a Samuel Bourne photograph. Ambala was situated on the route from Delhi to Simla in northern India. In the 1880s there was a huge cantonment here covering over 78 square km (48 square miles), constructed from 1843 onwards in a classic example of colonial grid planning. Paget Park and the Maidan provided open spaces. The British built St. Paul's Church and a cemetery here. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Bourne, Samuel | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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