Freetown Gallery

The City Hotel, Freetown, Sierra Leone

The City Hotel, Sierra Leone, made famous by author Graham Greene. Now demolished. The hotel was first mentioned in Greene's 1936 book Travel Without Maps'. It was then thinly disguised as The Bedford in The Heart of The Matter 1948. The hotel caught fire in 2000, killing several people. It was then demolished Date: circa 1985

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

Soldier in uniform, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Soldier in khaki uniform in a studio photograph, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, December 1944. Date: 1944

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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Street scene, Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa

Street scene with the Co-Operative Wholesale Society Limited, Cotton Department, in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa. Date: circa 1915

© Mary Evans / Pharcide

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