From the looks of that towel left for drying on the window sill, somebody actually lives in that house.
Update: The place is known as Aabi Guzar. Apparently at this place people used to pay taxes for using the water ways. 2010.
Update:
Notice the design.
Drawn by H.R. Pirie for P. Pirie’s ‘Kashmir; the land of streams and solitudes’ (1908).
Previously: Old House on Jhelum, Aabi Guzar (2010/08) "Further on is building much like a young castle right before The Bund and with stone steps leading up from the water to the inside of the building. It is a quaint house, no one seems to know the purpose for which it…
Aabi Guzar Water Way Octroi Francis Brunel, 1977 In around 2010, when my father got posted to Srinagar, I forced him to buy a cheap point-and-shoot camera so that he would send me photographs of Kashmir, the places he saw. Every couple of months we would meet in Jammu and…
Previously, Aabi Guzar Gone, 22nd September: "Over the years, I started coming across photographs of the place in old travelogues. Having never been to the place, the sight of the place in an old book became a thing of little joy for me. Earlier this year when I visited Srinagar,…
In "A Kashmiri Tourist in Kashmir"
4 Replies to “Old House on Jhelum, Aabi Guzar”
Please inform about the location of this photograph,of course it somewhere on the banks of Vitasta or what is also known as Jhelum,but where?
Please inform about the location of this photograph,of course it somewhere on the banks of Vitasta or what is also known as Jhelum,but where?
Abi guzar bund lal chowk
It's near band going towards Biscoe, taken from across the bank.
Got destroyed in flood of September 2014.