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“Old city”, Lahore (#25 in series: closer views of picture wall)

 

 

The featured image shows one of the 116 such illustrated panels on Lahore Fort’s picture wall.

As the image below makes clear, the presence of so many resident doves/pigeons was definitely not an unwanted “intrusion”.

 

 

 

Its very many dovecotes are an integral part of Lahore Fort’s “picture wall”. All photos ©️ Doug Spencer, 12 May 2024.

 

 

 

Dovecote & associated ornamentation – one of many such on Lahore Fort’s picture wall. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer, 12 May 2024.

 

 

 

 

Another of the 116 illustrated panels on Lahore Fort’s “picture wall”, 12 May 2024. Photos ©️ Doug Spencer.

 

 

Click here for a July 2025 article which celebrates the imminent “completion” of the feature wall’s restoration; it includes “before” and “after” photos that show just how difficult, painstaking and carefully-considered has been the work done over the last 7 years.

Click this to “meet” some of the young Pakistanis who undertook a deal of that work.

 

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