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*[http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Lahore Lahore] Love to Know 1911<br>
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{{Places of Interest|title=Lahore|name=Lahore |link=http://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=211401480495186034184.0004bb47a271c2d44b688&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=14&vpsrc=1}}
'''Lahore''' was the headquarters of [http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_102.gif [Lahore District]] in the [[Lahore Division ]] of [[Punjab|Punjab Province]] during the British period.
It was the capital of undivided [[Punjab]] until Partition in 1947 after which it became the capital of West Punjab in [[Pakistan]].
==History==
===1905 earthquake===
*[http://archive.org/stream/memoirsofgeologi38geol#page/130/mode/2up Lahore], page 131, [http://archive.org/stream/memoirsofgeologi38geol#page/n467/mode/2up Photographs of Lahore], rear of book, computer page 467 ''Memoirs of the Geological Survey of India Volume XXXVIII The Kangra Earthquake of 4th April 1905'' by CS Middlemiss, Superintendent, Geological Survey of India 1910, reprinted 1981 Archive.org
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20131006053803/http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/Baduwi1905.html#anchor1977088 Lahore and the 1905 <nowiki>[</nowiki>Kangra<nowiki>]</nowiki> earthquake], now archived, from [https://web.archive.org/web/20131006053803/http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/Baduwi1905.html Baduwi (1905): Index to Volume 1], now archived, from [http://cires.colorado.edu/~bilham/ Roger Bilham’s website Earthquakes and Tectonic Plate motions]
== Spelling Variants ==
==Churches==
[[Image:Lahore - Cathedral.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Lahore - Cathedral.jpg]]
'''Anglican'''
*Lahore Cathedral (Cathedral Church of Resurrection) - consecrated in 1887
'''Roman Catholic'''
*Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception - built 1861
*Sacred Heart Cathedral - consecrated 1907, the seat of the Diocese of Lahore. **[https://web.archive.org/web/20150127054247/http://magazine.thenews.com.pk/mag/detail_article.asp?id=10048&magId=1 "The glorious edifice"] by Marian Sharaf Joseph, January 27, 2015 ''You [Weekly] Magazine'', part of the Jang Group, now an archived webpage.
*St Anthony's - also near the North Western Railway Headquarters on Empress Road
* Convent of Jesus and Mary
* Queen Mary College
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aitchison_College Aitchison College Lahore, est 1886]*[https://web.archive.org/web/20170519215908/http://www.panoramio.com/photo/54984118 Picture of the teachers and students of St. Andrew School, Pakistan Railways (then NWR) at Lahore, set up in the late 19th century] panoramio.com, now archived.
====Colleges/University====
[[Image:Lahore_GCU_Tower.jpg|thumb|150px|Government College]]
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_College_University_Lahore Government College (now University) (1864)]
* Islamia College
* King Edward Medical College (now University)
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_the_Punjab University of Punjab]
==Health==
**721 Lahore Cantonment South, Pakistan - Mian Mir: 1851-1944, closed
**722 Lahore Taxali Gate, Pakistan - 1849-, open
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20160909102057/http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_indexcemetery_details.asp ?town=Lahore&cem=Taxali%20Gate%20Cemetery Taxali Gate Cemetery in LahorLahore] Indian-cemeteries.org, now archived.:[https://web.archive.org/web/20180609142512/https://www.christiansinpakistan.com/lahores-historic-taxali-gate-cemetery-in-shambles-due-to-willful-ignorance-by-authorities/ "Lahore’s historic Taxali Gate Cemetery in shambles due to willful ignorance by authorities"] by Madeeha Bakhsh 2 June 2018 christiansinpakistan.com, now archived.
==Commercial==
The '''Cantonment''' was situated 3 miles east of the civil station of Lahore and until 1906 was known as Mian Mir (alternative spelling Mean Meer, Meean Meer). This [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianracingremi00haye#page/4/mode/2up link],<ref> [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianracingremi00haye#page/4/mode/2up ''Indian Racing Reminiscences''], page 5 by M. Horace Hayes 1883 Archive.org</ref> gives a description of Meean Meer c 1868, while this [http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofi00westuoft#page/140/mode/2up link]<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/reminiscencesofi00westuoft#page/140/mode/2up ''Reminiscences of an Indian Cavalry Officer''], page 140 by John Sutton Edward Western 1922 Archive.org </ref> mentions the clean up and change of name to Lahore Cantonments.
Prior to the establishment of Mian Mir, and perhaps concurrently with it, there was a a cantonment at Anarkali (Anarkili, Anarkullie, Annarkullie). Lahore was the head-quarters of the [[Punjab Light Horse]] and of the [[Punjab Rifles|1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles]].<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/imperialgazette05unkngoog#page/n72/mode/1up ''Imperial Gazetteer of India : Provincial Series Punjab Volume II The Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan Divisions and Native States''], page 40 1908 Archive.org</ref> [http://www.emulekiplingsociety.comco.uk/2poetry/phorum/readpoems_beleaguered.php?4,12692 htm "A Beleagured Beleaguered City"](kiplingsociety.co.uk),is a parody by Rudyard Kipling about the proximity of the firing range of the Punjab Volunteer Rifles to the Lawrence Hall Gardens. [http://www.rafweb.org/Stations/Stations-L.htm#Lahore RAF Lahore] rafweb.org (retrieved 1 July 2014) [https://500px.com/photo/23071753/sir-michael-o'dwyer-institute-for-british-troops-lahore-india-1946-by-scott-mcculloch Photograph: Sir Michael O'Dwyer Institute for British Troops, Lahore] c 1946 from the collection of James Wilson, Royal Artillery 500px.com [https://archive.org/stream/b21452404#page/384/mode/2up "Meean Meer"] page 385 ''Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire into the Sanitary State of the Army in India : with Abstract of Evidence, and of Reports Received from Indian Military Stations'' 1864 Archive.org
==Transport==
[[Image:Lahore - Railway Station.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Lahore - Railway Station.jpg]]
====Railways====
*Lahore Railway Station. **[http://www.oldindianphotos.in/2012/09/lahore-railway-station-c1880s.html Photographs: Lahore Railway Station c 1880s] oldindianphotos.in**[http://imranhkhan.com/wp-content/gallery/oldpakistan/photo21.jpg Photograph: Lahore Railway station 1886] by John Burke from Imran H Khan’s page Photos of Old Pakistan, Planet Earth Blog
Lahore was the headquarters of [[North Western Railway]]. There were railway workshops and a railway colony.
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:1893_Map_of_Lahore.jpg Lahore Map 1893] from Wikipedia Commons
* [http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/lahore_1912.jpg Lahore Map 1912] from the Historical Maps of Asia Collection, University of Texas, Austin
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/ioruxu9442.html Lahore Map 1935] British Library Online Gallery
*[http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/maps/asia/ioruxu9441.html Map of Lahore Fort 1905] British Library Online Gallery
==Photographs==
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/8984406@N07/with/5342652338/ Some old photographs of Lahore] from Flickr
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20161104040017/http://www.panoramio.com/user/4789607/tags/Lahore?photo_page=1 Photos by Ghilzai - Lahore] panoramio.com (part of [http://www, now archived.panoramio.com/user/4789607?comment_page=1&photo_page=1 this] collection)
===Biographies===
==External links==
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V16_111.gif Lahore City] Imperial Gazetteer of India<br>
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20060913012017/http://www.tcaup.umich.edu/workfolio/glover.pdf "'A Feeling of Absence from Old England:' the Colonial Bungalow"] by William J Glover. ''Home Cultures Volume 1 Issue 1'' pages 61-82 2004(?), now an archived webpage. Contains references to Lahore from page 3 of the pdf. “By the late nineteenth century, Lahore was a desirable posting for European officers and civilians due to its large size, moderate climate, and relatively cosmopolitan range of institutions and activities.” *[http://pakistaniatwww.indiaofthepast.comorg/2010contribute-memories/06/22read-contributions/avalife-gardnerback-inthen/375-lahoremy-formemories-bhowaniof-junction/ Ava Gardner in lahore "My memories of Lahore for "] by Reginald Massey, born 1932. indiaofthepast.org. He attended Saint Anthony'Bhowani Junction'] 22 June 2010 All Things Pakistans School, run by the Irish Christian Brothers.*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121230043249/http://www.travelintelligence.com:80/travel-writing/lahore-blood-tracks "Lahore: Blood on the Tracks"] by William Dalrymple 1997. travelintelligence.com, now archived. Also an Based on the script of ''Blood on the Tracks'', the first episode in of the 1997 TV documentary Channel 4 series [http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/28568 ''Stones of the Raj]'' 1997
====Historical books on-lineonline====
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/imperialgazette05unkngoog#page/n69/mode/1up "Lahore City"], pages 37-40 and [http://www.archive.org/stream/imperialgazette05unkngoog#page/n72/mode/1up "Lahore Cantonment"], page 40 from ''Imperial Gazetteer of India : Provincial Series Punjab Volume II The Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan Divisions and Native States'', 1908 Archive.org
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/P7NCNQHSTSOVNS5A45K47XEB5NA4RNPG ''Gazetteer of the Lahore District : 1883-4'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. [[Online books#Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek| Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek]]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.35249 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India
*[https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/item/CMKHX5WP2U2D5UNPG7XIUU5PFG3K7TMX ''Gazetteer of the Lahore District : 1893-94'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. [[Online books#Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek| Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek]]. Also available [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105616 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
* ''Punjab District Gazetteers Vol.30A Lahore District 1918'' [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105618 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=StsSAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA367 "Topographical and Sanitary Report on the Station of Meean Meer"] by Dr T G Scot, [[79th Regiment of Foot|79th Highlanders]], page 367 ''Army Medical Department: Statistical Sanitary and Medical Reports for the year 1861'' (published 1863) Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=OVTOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA95 "Lahore Central Jail"], page 95 from ''Professional papers on Indian engineering, Volume 5 1868'' Google Books
*''The Life and Correspondence of Thomas Valpy French, first Bishop of Lahore'' by the Rev Herbert Birks 1895 [https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden01birk Volume I], [https://archive.org/details/lifecorresponden02birk Volume II] Archive.org
:[https://archive.org/details/heroicbishoplife00stoc ''An Heroic Bishop: the Life Story of French of Lahore''] by Eugene Stock 2nd edition 1914 (first published 1913) Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/b21351569 ''Report on the measures taken against malaria in the Lahore (Mian Mir) Cantonment, 1909''] by R. Nathan, H.B. Thornhill, L. Rogers 1910 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=111 "Lahore District"] page 89 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (1910) Hathi Trust Digital Library
*[https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0001/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East : being a revised and enlarged edition of "Oriental drainage", [Volume 1<nowiki>]</nowiki>''] by C C James 1917, first published 1906 Archive.org. Includes chapters relating to Drainage of the major cities in India (Bombay, Calcutta, Karachi, Madras, “Benares, Lucknow, Mirzapur and '''Lahore'''”), Rangoon, Singapore, Penang and Shanghai, and of the major cities in Egypt. [https://archive.org/details/b32843355_0002/page/n5/mode/2up ''Drainage problems of the East, Volume 2- Plans''] by C C James 1917 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/punjabdisturbanc01lahouoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''Punjab disturbances, April 1919; compiled from the Civil and military gazette''] 1919 Archive.org
*''Old Lahore: Reminiscences of a Resident'' by Colonel H R Golding, including an ''Historical and Descriptive Account'' by the late T H Thornton, BCS. 1924. Choice of digital files: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.77317 Archive.org version], mirror from Digital Library of India; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208589 Archive.org version 2], mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available on the [http://bookswww.googlepanjabdigilib.comorg/webuser/bookssearches/displayPage.jsp?idID=OVTOAAAAMAAJ3306&pgpage=PA95 48&CategoryID=1 Panjab Digital Library].*[https://archive.org/details/dli.csl.8925/page/n3/mode/2up ''Indian Dust being letters from the Punjab''] by Philip Ernest Richards 1932 Archive.org. The author was appointed Professor of English Literature to the Dyal Singh College at Lahore in 1911. He died of acute enteric in 1920.*[https://archive.org/details/fortifiedcitieso0000toys/page/90 "Lahore Central Jail"], page 95 91 ''The Fortified Cities of India'' by Sidney Toy 1965. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library.*[https://archive.org/details/travelerstalemem0000cand/page/150 Lahore] page 150 ''A Traveler's Tale : Memories of India'' by Enid Saunders Candlin 1974. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library. The author’s husband was a metallurgist/chemical engineer who worked in India 1941-46.*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from -kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/ ''Professional papers on Indian engineering, Volume 5 1868From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900'' Google Books] by Omar Khan 2002. Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters and photographs about [[Lahore]], [[Peshawar]], [[Murree]], [[Kashmir]], the [[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]].
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