EU: Galle Face Hotel (1913) a through time

Colombo 1913 3 photos of this spot

3 photographs taken at the same spot in Colombo, spanning 1913 — 3 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

Guests and staff pass along the grounds of the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Opened in 1864 facing the Indian Ocean, the hotel became a favored stop for travelers passing through the British colony of Ceylon on the long steamship routes to Asia.

EU: Galle Face Hotel (1913) a 1913 Guests and staff pass along the grounds of the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Opened in 1864 facing the Indian Ocean, the hotel became a favored stop for travelers passing through the British colony of Ceylon on the long steamship routes to Asia.

EU: Galle Face Hotel (1913) b 1913 Another view of the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, the seafront establishment that catered to European travelers and colonial officials passing through Ceylon in the early 1900s, its open lawns facing directly onto the Indian Ocean.

EU: Galle Face Hotel (1913) c 1913 A further look at the Galle Face Hotel in Colombo, Ceylon, whose long veranda and ocean frontage made it a landmark stop for passengers traveling the shipping routes between Europe and Asia during the early twentieth century.