I'm so happy about the present transformation (or re-transformation) of my beloved Lagos State (Las Gidi) - and I have decided to bring back memories (with pictures) - of what the great city of Lagos used to look like. Bear in mind that Lagos wasn't built by the colonial masters - the Lagos elites (mostly business men from the slave trade era), and slave returnees built Lagos. The British never developed Nigeria - they exploited the resources around Nigeria, and shipped it to Britain. The only thing Nigeria benefited from the colonialists was the rail network (and arguably Carter bridge) used in the transportation of the resources - from different of the country - to Lagos.

PS: I'm not trying to knock the colonial masters - I'm basically just trying to give credit to those who made Lagos what it was then. Old Lagos, the city my Dad will never stop talking about (Mum was raised in Ibadan).

Enjoy!

Fore more: http://lasgidiboy..co.uk/2012/05/old-lagos-before-1960.html

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I'm searching for more pictures - more to follow soon.

Campos, Lagos Island - is home.

Beautiful pictures

Great pics [img]http://www.demama.info/hjk[/img]

Very revealing!!!!!!!!!

The Streets were cleaner back then!

Wait, the usual criers and haters are coming to flood your thread with tears.Wait, the usual criers and haters are coming to flood your thread with tears.

Nice collection! Good for the younger and upcoming generation.

We have come some distance in the race for civilisation (post-colonisation).

But we are not there yet, not even close.

Pls share some more.

Nice pix. It affords us the oppottunity to see the "sane" Lagos.

Men is there no women in any of the pictures at that time? I miss those days!

Lagos is really ancient and mordern.

Wonderful pictures. It seems the development we are looking for is a quest for what we have lost!

Lovely

see as the beach empty, no ashawo,nothing

there is always something to try. [img]http://www.spgames.info/g.gif[/img]

apparently d Igbos are part of d people that made lagos what it is 2dae...maybe u nid 2 get ur facts rite b4 lashing out at them

Thank you for this pictures......

it was beautiful back in the 70's

ola_pupo01: apparently d Igbos are part of d people that made lagos what it is 2dae...maybe u nid 2 get ur facts rite b4 lashing out at them

can you explain further,i.m.o, it was opportunities that built lagos not one tribe or how many igbos have you found selling dollars and gold at allen,ebute metta,ojuelegba etc

this pictures only affirm to me that the British did not one day underdeveloped us before
they left. if only we were able to maintain all the structures they left on ground before their departure we
would have remain almost in the same class of development even till date. I am saying because the types of building
you see in these pictures is exactly what you see all over uk

looked like it was taking the shape of london....but what can we see today? rubish. thanks for the bautiful pics pal.it just brought back memories.