If you’re living in Cairo at present, you’re probably feeling nostalgic for a quieter city with fewer people in the streets.\u00a0 Here’s a photo to prove that your city was once more peaceful, well, at least outside this hospital.\u00a0 And there was a world war going on!<\/p>\n
With a theme like ‘Nostalgic’ I just had to return to my father’s war album.\u00a0 I often think I’ve blogged about his best photos, but when I dig around it long enough I can still find a photo to match a challenge, especially this week when Cairo is undergoing yet more trouble and millions of people are in the streets. It’s the ideal time to post a photo taken in Cairo in about 1941.\u00a0 My father wrote “9th BGH Heliopolis” under it, that is, the 9th British General Hospital in the suburb of Heliopolis, Cairo.<\/p>\n
Postscript:\u00a0 Thanks to Ahmad Omar (see his comment below) I now know that this was originally the Heliopolis Palace Hotel, opened in 1910, which became a hospital in both WWI and WWII and since the 1980s has been one of the Presidential Palaces where presidential offices are located.<\/p>\n If you’re living in Cairo at present, you’re probably feeling nostalgic for a quieter city with fewer people in the streets.\u00a0 Here’s a photo to prove that your city was once more peaceful, well, at least outside this hospital.\u00a0 And there was a world war going on! With a theme like ‘Nostalgic’ I just had … <\/p>\n![\"9th](\"http:\/\/worth.id.au\/wish\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/9th_bgh_heliopolis.jpg?w=750\")
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