All Photos from Time Magazine


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Yaba,Lagos

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Lagos Island

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Luxury Homes
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Wow! Excellent Stuff, Hakon, really excellent.

this is really impressive.
its not precolonial though, it's just colonial

Who said that the Brits left so little?

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Lagos: A History In Pictures, 1861 to 1961
By Akintokunbo A Adejumo Published 09/8/2009

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The destruction of Lagos by the British Squadron in 1851 because it was a notorious “slave post”.

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Treaty with Lagos, 1861 signed by British Naval Officers on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen of Great Britain, and Docemo, King of Lagos, on the part of himself and Chiefs

The Beginnings of Modern Lagos:

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Tapa Street Police Station. Rifle slits in walls were provided for repelling attacks


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Top: MacGregor Canal, built by Sir William MacGregor before 1900
Bottom: Glover Memorial hall opened in 1887


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Top: House on Odunfa Street, plaster work executed by the last of the Brazilian master craftsmen.
Bottom: A typical Brazilian trader’s house


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Top: The picture above was taken from a coloured print made in 1859, in the possession of Lagos Yacht Club. At that time, there were 16 British, 2 French, 2 Italian, 3 Hamburg
and 5 Brazilian traders in Lagos .
Bottom: The picture below is a panoramic view of the water-front in modern Lagos, 1961


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Lagos: 1500 – 1961


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Top: A picture of a Lagos Street taken about 1905 showing the steam tramway track running up the centre.
Bottom: Old Carter Bridge (1901-1931) in the background. The railway (foreground) went on to a jetty on the right of the picture where passengers from the mail boats travelled on the “attendant” to the ships lying outside the bar.


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Balogun Street about 1910 showing the tram track laid in the roadway


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Top: The original Supreme Court in Tinubu Square (1887); note one of Gov. Glover’s kerosene lamps and Registrar John L Otumba Payne’s office on the right.
Bottom: Methodist Church built in Tinubu Square about 1865, a tower was added later.


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Top: CMS House prefabricated in the UK and brought to Lagos from Badagry in 1852 by the Rev Gollner, the first “storey” house to be built in Lagos and was known as “Ile Alapako” or the House of Planks.
Bottom: A 19th Century photo of Lagos marina showing some of the numerous jetties of the time.

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Top: The Lagos Steam Train on the Marina about 1910
Bottom: Passenger and freight train crossing on the Marina. The track shown in the foreground was in position until June 1960


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Iga Iduganran (top), official residence of the Oba of Lagos built by the Portuguese at the end of the 18th Century, has given way to the more modern Palace below.


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The Carter Bridge with links Lagos Island to the mainland

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22 cameron road ikoyi 1951


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Cameron road

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The creek from Obalende bridge

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Lagos Yatch Club

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THESE TREES ARE STILL STANDING BY THE WAY

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Back garden of Ikoyi club, Lagos, Nigeria, in about 1958. In the foreground is a roller ski slope for kids.

Who said that the Brits left so little?

Our mothers and fathers, moreover, look how small Lagos is.

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beautiful!

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