Barisal's Floating Markets
Boats, trade and daily life on the waterways of the south.
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Long before the modern city took shape, this place was a busy centre of trade and travel. Records from the period describe crowded platforms, river boats and markets that never seemed to close.
Photographs from the archive show everyday scenes: porters, clerks, merchants and families moving through spaces that have since changed beyond recognition.
Over the following decades, new roads, rail lines and buildings gradually replaced the older landscape. Only a few photographs and written accounts remain to show what it once looked like.
Today, the story is a reminder of how quickly a city can change, and why careful documentation of old images and records matters.
What the records show
Photographs from the archive show everyday scenes: porters, clerks, merchants and families moving through spaces that have since changed beyond recognition.
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Sources & References
- Bangladesh Railway Archive
- Dhaka City Corporation Records
- The Daily Star (Archive)
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