Ma'alla
Noted for its straight road running between Tawahi and the Crater Pass, the Ma'alla 'Straight' was progressively built up during our time in Aden with large blocks of flats, many housing married service families, with local shops, a petrol station and café style restaurants.
During the period of rising insurgency the flats became prime targets for Arabs firing rockets from the hills overlooking Ma'alla from which they could make a rapid escape. Marconi Marine had a storage facility in one of the back streets where large pieces of equipment, cable drums, etc., were kept.
View from the balcony of El Baz building in Ma'alla looking towards Khormaksar. Note the W/T aerial masts at Khormaksar to the far left.
With acknowledgements to Mrs N Lilburn.
A typical back street scene - possibly taken in Ma'alla or Crater. Note the ever present goat in the street.
With acknowledgements to Mrs N Lilburn.
Ma'alla from the road to Crater Pass, January 1965.
The block of flats in Ma'alla where our friends who served in the forces lived, March 1963.
Ma'alla Straight, Luke Thomas offices to the left.
With acknowledgements to Dicks Photos.
Crater Pass - widening of the road from Ma'alla to Crater has commenced and the bridge is still evident in this photograph. Sadly this was eventually destroyed as the 'gap' in the rock was opened up by blasting operations, March 1963. |
The second carriageway has been laid down, March 1963.
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