Pictures of "Old Maadi"

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1951 photo taken by Chief Engineer Lamei Elmotei from the second floor window of EDLICO showing the Maadi railway crossing on Fouad al-Awal (later Nahda) Avenue. EDLICO's British manager's car seen about to cross into Maadi once departing train to Helwan leaves Maadi railway station. The railway's mechanical junction exchange kiosk is seen on the Maadi side of the railway. (photo courtesy Sami L. Elmotei)

1942: New Zealand troops stationed in Digla about to board diesel train coming from Helwan on its way to Bab al-Louk staion in downtown Cairo
Maghrabi Building (No. 88 Road 9) seen to the left of photo behind railway crossing

wooden crossing across the Khashaab Canal at Road 79
crossing flanked by Villa Lifschitz to the west and Villa Sopri (owned by Dr. Lister) to the east

the Khashaab Canal
branched from the Nile south of Helwan passing through Torah and Maadi leading onto the agricultural fields of Dar al-Salaam
filled in the early 1980s

Nileside Coptic Church of the Holy Virgin on the Cairo-Helwan Nile Road (photo circa 1938)

photo taken in 1951 by EDLICO's Chief Engineer Lamei Elmotei of Maadi Nile port with the Feluccas waiting to be loaded (photo courtesy Sami L. Elmotei)

letters addressed to EDLICO's Chief Engineer Lamei ELmotei Bey in 1951 (photo courtesy Sami L. Elmotei)

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