I won an eBay bid on some 35mm slides of Kuwait taken back in 1978 and thought I would share them. Most of the slides are of a motorcade but I’m not sure who was visiting.
There are UK flags up on the roads but it couldn’t be the Queen since she visited in 1979. I thought maybe the British Prime Minister back then, James Callaghan, but I also couldn’t find any info about him visiting Kuwait. So if anyone has any idea who this might be, let me know because I’m curious.
I’ve uploaded all the scans to Flickr and you can check them out here.
25 replies on “35mm Slides of Kuwait – 1978”
This is brilliant, thank you for sharing!
I couldn’t pinpoint where those cityscape locations are. Are the building still in existence today?
All the shots are around the Sheraton area. Only buildings still there today are the Sheraton building and the Thunayan Al Ghanim building https://248am.com/mark/interesting/then-and-now-thunayan-al-ghanim-building/
Motorcade may be Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Kuwait.
That was Feb 1979 though
Is it possible that the date on the slides could be wrong, since it is handwritten? Like it was written years after the fact, and perhaps just off a year?
yeah possible but, I watched the video of her visiting UAE and her motorcade was fairly large so I’d imagine it would be the same here. But I just froze at the frame that shows her car in the UAE and it’s similar to the one in the picture with the same flag. So maybe slides are from 79.
https://youtu.be/q-7OstJ1Ugs?t=50
https://www.flickr.com/photos/miskan/50110650751/in/album-72157715090426531/
the Queen came to KWI on the Concorde in 79, one of the images has an interior shot of an aircaft which doesnt look like an interior of the Corcorde so maybe the images r not from her visit – just speculation, i maybe wrong
She came to Kuwait in a Concorde?? I got to google that
in 79 year, here s a pic
https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/trails/royal-travel/hm-queen-elizabeth-ii-and-hrh-the-duke-of-edinburgh-arrive-in
That’s really cool, I had no idea
The black car has crown on it. To my understanding only her and few people around her get the crown on the vehicle.
Slides are on the way over, once I get them will rescan them myself in higher resolution and see if I can make out anything
february 25, 1978 Jaber Al-Ahmad coronation ??
wow
Love it
Mme Vera Al-Mutawa MBE established British School Kuwait in 1978. Might be worth dropping her a line… she may be able to shed some light…
https://248am.com/?s=Sunshine+school
I think it was established in 1980 because that’s when I joined and this year was their 40 year anniversary.
BSK website and Wikipedia both say 1978. However, that’s beside the point… Mme Vera was in Kuwait in 1978 and may recall who the visiting dignitary was. Just an idea… 😊
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Flickr is older than those photos.
Thank you for sharing .. What exactly you typed in eBay to find these?
does ebay deliver to kuwait ??
eBay doesn’t deliver, it depends on the seller
I could care less about who is in those photos. The intriguing part is trying to identify buildings that are still around.
Only two of the buildings are still there, the rest all demolished.
Thanks for making these images available online for everyone to enjoy!