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By June 1879, the 31st Company Royal Engineers, employing local labour, had constructed a 22-mile
road from Limassol to the site selected for the commissariat depot at Platres, and cleared a further 5-mile

mule track up the steep slopes from Platres to Troodos. Every May or June thereafter, at the start of the
summer season, the regiment of the Polemidia garrison outside Limassol would march the 30 miles

uphill to Troodos to prepare the tented encampment, to be followed by government officials and their
families from Nicosia.

‘Summer Encampment at Mount Troodos’, Supplement to the Illustrated London News, 18 October 1879.4

4 The three prints from The Illustrated London News and The Graphic were used to illustrate ‘Maintaining Britishness in
a Setting of their Own Design: The Troodos Hill Station in Cyprus during the Early British Occupation’ by Andrekos Var-

nava, University of Melbourne. Published in: Exploring the British world: identity, cultural production, institutions. 2004: pp.
1102 – 1133.

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