EU: Little Fort (1966) through time

Anomabu 1966–2002 8 photos of this spot

8 photographs taken at the same spot in Anomabu, spanning 1966–2002 — 5 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A fishing village at Anomabu on Ghana's coast, photographed in 1966. Fishing has long been central to the livelihood of communities along this stretch of the Gold Coast, and Anomabu itself grew into an important trading town in the eighteenth century.

EU: Vissersdorp (1966) 1966 A fishing village at Anomabu on Ghana's coast, photographed in 1966. Fishing has long been central to the livelihood of communities along this stretch of the Gold Coast, and Anomabu itself grew into an important trading town in the eighteenth century.

EU: Little Fort (1966) 1966 The 'Little Fort' at Anomabu, Ghana, one of the smaller fortified structures built along the Gold Coast during the era of European coastal trade, photographed in 1966, standing alongside the town's larger Fort William.

EU: Company’s Monument, 1958 (1966) 1966 The Company's Monument at Anomabu, Ghana, erected in 1958 and photographed here in 1966. Anomabu was long a major post in the Gold Coast's coastal trading network, known for both its fort and its fishing fleet.

EU: Fort William, oude toegang (1969) 1969 The old entrance to Fort William at Anomabu, Ghana, photographed in 1969. British traders built the fort in the mid-eighteenth century to protect their trading interests on the Gold Coast after an earlier fort on the site was destroyed.

EU: Fort William, nieuwe toegang (1969) 1969 The newer entrance to Fort William in Anomabu, Ghana, photographed in 1969, showing later modifications made to the eighteenth-century coastal fortification as it was adapted over the years that followed its construction.

EU: Overzicht noordgevel kerk en visrokerij op de voorgrond (2000) 2000 A church at Anomabu, Ghana, viewed from the north in 2000, with a traditional fish-smoking site visible in the foreground along this fishing town's shoreline.

EU: Overzicht boten met buitenmuur rechts (2002) 2002 Fishing boats along the shore at Anomabu, Ghana, with the outer wall of the town's historic fort visible on the right in this 2002 photograph.

EU: Overzicht vanaf het fort (2002) 2002 A 2002 view over Anomabu, Ghana, taken from within the grounds of the town's fort, one of several built along this stretch of coast by European traders.