Because we have so few archive images of Bahrain floating around our visual imagination, I get very excited when I see 'old pictures' anywhere. These are two images of the Guthaibiya Palace. I am familiar with the fact that there were much fewer walls 'back in the day' (i'm not sure when these pictures were taken - although guessing it looks like sometime in the 60's), but these pictures really show how open everything was ...
This one below shows how barren the land was around the palace which is now surrounded by highway, hotels, busy streets with eating places and so on. The second image below, from a couple of years ago, taken by oksabaro, shows more of the modern day palace setting, though from a different angle.
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