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'Dutch Style' Bungalow in Bawarda.
These houses which are designated for Senior European personnel were based on the 'bungalow' prototype which were set on large green lawns. They are typically surrounded by parks and gardens and each house was lined with English hedges. Unlike the…
Tags: british, chr_1926, company town, geo_abadan, petroleum
7th and 8th Grades Overseas School
Students of the 7th and 8th grades in the Overseas Schools in Abadan in the basketball. This mode of segregated [local vs. foreigners] schools became the accepted norm of schooling in the 'company towns'. Like their parents who were segregated,…
Tags: british, chr_1930s, company town, geo_abadan, society
Abadan Bazaar Street
The locals in Abadan Bazaar Street in front of the row houses that were occupied with workers.
Tags: chr_1930s, company town, geo_abadan, locals, petroleum
Aerial View of Bawarda's Center.
The city of Bawarda was designed by James M. Wilson in 1926 and was inspired by Lutyens’s remodelling of the Garden City and City Beautiful ideas in New Delhi (1911–1940). Bawarda was an attempt at social and ethnic mixing and also offered larger…
Tags: chr_1926, company town, geo_abadan, petroleum, urban
Aerial view of the Garden Suburb of Bawarda.
"‘Since the War’, Wilson reported, ‘a very great and widespread spirit of Nationalism has been introduced and fostered throughout the Middle East. . . Though the Company probably incurs less of this [jealousy] than the
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Tags: chr_1920s, geo_abadan, geo_iran, housing, nationalism, petroleum
Chairmen of APOC.
A quick look at the people in key positions of oil companies in the Middle East from the late 1800s to the early 1970s results in the same image across the board: white, middle-aged, Anglo-Saxon. While the initiatives of many of these oil companies…
Tags: british, chr_1927-1941, company town, geo_abadan, management
House in Braim
The houses in Braim were based on the Garden City ideal and the planner of the city, James M. Wilson. The are of Braim was also known as the 'bungalow area' and housed the British personnel and was located south-west of the refinery area. It was also…
Tags: chr_1920s, company town, geo_abadan, geo_iran, housing, petroleum
Housing in Bahmashir
The houses in Braim were designed to house workers and aimed to appease the 'local' architecture and needs. These houses were much smaller than the ones in Bawarda and Braim, which housed 'foreigners'. The houses were designed as a series of row…
Tags: chr_1920s, company town, geo_abadan, geo_iran, housing, petroleum, workers
Local Beggar and British Family
This image depicts the reality in the 'company town' of Abadan in which the British, and the foreigners in general, were above the locals in the social hierarchy. Iranians did not receive the benefits of the new found oil wealth, but were instead in…
Tags: british, chr_1930s, company town, geo_abadan, society