Fortress gardens and the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma American egret Triumph of Galatea

Triumph of Galatea

catching rats in a ramshackle room

Rita Tushingham seated

New potato seller pushing a barrow full of potatoes outside Middlesex Hospital in Marylebone

11th August 1958

Fortress gardens and the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma American egret Triumph of GalateaFortress gardens and the Shwedagon Pagoda, Rangoon, Burma, c1900s(?). Stereoscopic card. Buddhist tradition holds that the Shwedagon Pagoda was built before the Buddha died in 486 BC, but archaeologists believe its construction dates from between the 6th and 10th century. The height of the stupa was increased on several occasions, reaching its current 98 metres (320 feet) in the 18th century.