Challenge

[ChinaTom]

I realise that I have given away my current location in previous posts, but I challenge the community to identify the exact location where I took these photos of these old photos.

 

 

Huge clue in the foreground of the second pic

[scaryoldcortina]

phnom penh?

[M'coli]

Hmm. Looks like somewhere that genocide has occurred.

Uganda?

Cambodia?

[pogweasel]

I love the smell of a Wolseley in the morning...

[ChinaTom]

Yeah, silly challenge really - one of those "you had to be there to appreciate it" moments.

 

These photos are in between the thousands of individual victim photos in the S-21 prison, now a "museum of genocide" in Phnom Penh. Devastating place - all the torture chambers and instruments are there, unpreserved in the state they were found in after liberation.

 

It just seemed to be the most unlikely place to see a Riley/Wolseley (?)

[pompei]

Crikey, that's chilling.

 

I visited Mostar in the late 90s and saw where the Serbs massacred all the Muslim menfolk of the town. All around that region there were battle scarred buildings. One of the most poignant was a block of now abandoned flats peppered with machine gun fire. A few blocks away, people were getting on with their lives with those reminders of the recent past almost literally set in stone. It's hard to believe that these things happened so recently around two hours flight time away ...

[Mr Lobster]

Similarly, Oradour sur Glane in France is a fairly sobering place to visit. Somewhere around VWPs neck of the woods I think.

 

Really brings home to you the horror of what has occured relatively recently in our history.

[jonny69]

I couldn't quite make out what I was looking at, at first. I was like... is that skulls?

[boobydoo]

Oh.... I thought they looked like some melons or something so ! was going to say somewhere in Norfolk...........

[hennabm]

Similarly, Oradour sur Glane in France is a fairly sobering place to visit. Somewhere around VWPs neck of the woods I think.

 

Really brings home to you the horror of what has occured relatively recently in our history.

We went there a couple of years ago. A chilling place even on a hot day. The Germans just went into town and shot everyone. The French vowed to leave it exactly as it was found. The cars are still in the street although looking a little worse for rust; sewing machines in the houses etc etc.

[Station]

When were these photos originally taken?

Makes you glad to live in a civilised society really, the whole farce of democracy doesn't look 'too bad' compared to having people like 'Politique Potentielle', etc.

[Mr H Sceptre]

These dictator types ought to get into old cars, then none of this terrible mass genocide would have occured. Probably.

[ChinaTom]

When were these photos originally taken?

Makes you glad to live in a civilised society really, the whole farce of democracy doesn't look 'too bad' compared to having people like 'Politique Potentielle', etc.

I think these photos were between 75 and 78 - this was when the worst of the deeds were taking place.

 

I can see a Renault 4 in the first photo, but can't make out the others.

 

I am still puzzled as to why a Wolseley was in Cambodia. I can only imagine it came in via Thailand - Vietnam wouldn't have imported non-French vehicles would they?

 

Time to watch Killing Fields again - see what motors they used for that film.

[barrett]

Isn't that a 4CV infront of the R4?