Garden Restaurant through time

Stone Town 1900–2012 19 photos of this spot

19 photographs taken at the same spot in Stone Town, spanning 1900–2012 — 18 of them from before 1980. Line them up and watch the place change.

A rooftop vantage point over Stone Town, Zanzibar, offers this panoramic look across the old town's flat roofs and narrow streets around the turn of the twentieth century, when the island was governed as a British protectorate under its ruling Sultan.

EU: View of a city on Zanzibar / rooftop view (c.1880-1920) 1900 A rooftop vantage point over Stone Town, Zanzibar, offers this panoramic look across the old town's flat roofs and narrow streets around the turn of the twentieth century, when the island was governed as a British protectorate under its ruling Sultan.

EU: Passersby in a street in Zanzibar (c.1880-1920) 1900 Pedestrians move along a narrow street in Stone Town, Zanzibar, in a scene typical of daily life in the island's historic quarter around 1900, an era when the town's coral-stone architecture and trading houses were already centuries old.

EU: View of a city on Zanzibar (c. 1900) 1900 This photograph from around 1900 surveys the rooftops and streets of Zanzibar City from an elevated position, showing the dense layout of Stone Town's coral-stone buildings.

EU: Street in Zanzibar (c. 1900) 1900 A street in Zanzibar is shown in this photograph from around 1900, part of a series documenting the town's everyday appearance at the time under British protectorate administration.

EU: Panorama of Zanzibar harbour (1900-1920) 1900 The harbour of Zanzibar City, seen in panorama, is the focus of this photograph dated to sometime between 1900 and 1920, showing the waterfront that anchored the island's trade.

EU: Street scene in Zanzibar (c. 1900) 1900 A street scene from Zanzibar City, with figures moving along the roadway, dates from around 1900, offering a glimpse of everyday movement through the old town.

EU: Voorbijgangers in een straat te Zanzibar (RP-F-2012-96-241) (1900) 1900 Pedestrians move through a narrow street in Stone Town, Zanzibar, in this 1900 photograph, offering a street-level view of daily life in the historic trading port on the East African coast.

EU: Quartel em Zanzibar (1901) 1901 A military barracks, or quartel, in Zanzibar City, photographed in 1901. At the time Zanzibar was a British protectorate, though the barracks reflect earlier fortifications built under the Sultanate that once ruled the island and its Swahili Coast trading network.

EU: Panorama of Zanzibar harbour (c.1900-1920) 1910 A panoramic view of Zanzibar's harbour, photographed between about 1900 and 1920.

EU: Exterior of the Sultan of Zanzibar palace (c.1900-1920) 1910 The exterior of the Sultan of Zanzibar's palace, photographed between about 1900 and 1920.

EU: Panorama of the harbour of Zanzibar (c. 1910) 1910 The harbour of Zanzibar City, photographed around 1910.

EU: Panorama of Zanzibar harbour (c. 1910) 1910 A panoramic view of Zanzibar's harbour, photographed around 1910.

EU: Building in Zanzibar, photograph (0331.0016, 1934) 1934 A building in Zanzibar is recorded in this 1934 photograph, part of a numbered set (0331.0016) documenting the coral-stone architecture of the town's old quarter.

EU: Harbour with dhows, Zanzibar, photograph (0331.0017, 1934) 1934 Dhows fill the harbour in this 1934 photograph of Zanzibar, part of a numbered documentary set (0331.0017) recording the port's maritime trade.

EU: Street near the Old Fort, Zanzibar Stone Town (1961) 1961 A street near the Old Fort in Zanzibar's Stone Town is pictured in this 1961 photograph, close to the 17th-century Omani fortification that still anchors the old town's waterfront today.

EU: Market alley in Zanzibar Stone Town (1961) 1961 A market alley in Zanzibar's Stone Town is shown in this 1961 photograph, one of the narrow trading streets that gave the historic quarter its dense, maze-like layout of shops and dwellings.

EU: Waterfront street by the fort walls, Zanzibar Stone Town (1961) 1961 This 1961 photograph shows a waterfront street running beside the fort walls in Zanzibar's Stone Town, close to the harbour that made the old town a centre of Indian Ocean trade.

EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - street scene by the Old Fort (1961) 1961 A street scene by the Old Fort in Zanzibar's Stone Town is recorded in this 1961 photograph, near one of the island's oldest surviving buildings, constructed by Omani Arabs in the late 17th century.

Garden Restaurant 2012 A restaurant in Stone Town, Zanzibar City, Tanzania, photographed in 2012. Stone Town's historic buildings, many dating to the nineteenth century, now house a mix of homes, shops, and businesses serving the old town's residents and visitors.