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Nicholas Stanley-Price

Endnotes

1. Stanley-Price, N. Imperial Outpost in the Gulf. The airfield at Sharjah (UAE), 1932-
1952 (Brighton: Book Guild 2012); Imperial Airways and the airfield at Sharjah, 1932-
1939, LIWA 6 (2011), pp. 24-38; Al-Qasimi, S. bin M. Sharjah air station. Between east
and west (Sharjah 2012; also in Arabic, Sharjah 2009).
2. British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/R/15/2/532, Foreign
Office (FO) London to Political Resident (PR) Bahrain, 7 October 1948.

3. IOR/R/15/4/15, Trucial Coast News Report, no. 21 for 8–24 November 1949.

4. Imperial Outpost (note 1), pp. 139, 165.

5. Walker, J. Tyro on the Trucial Coast (The Memoir Club: Durham, 1999), p. 8.

6. Innes, H. Harvest of Journeys (Collins: London 1960), pp.19-20. His bestselling novel
The Doomed Oasis(1960) was a result of this visit.

7. Phillips, W. Unknown Oman (reprint, Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1970), p. 102.

8. Al Qaidi, A.S. A historical overview of the rise and development of the hospitality
industry in the states of the Trucial Coast, LIWA 7, no. 15 (2015), pp. 20-21.

9. For the Seaface, see Anderson, G. Sharjah, UAE. The urban conservation dilemma, MA
thesis, University of Durham, Department of Geography, 1991, p. 259 (published in
Arabic, Sharjah: Dept. Culture and Information, 1995). For early photos of the Sheba
and Carlton hotels, see Moser, R. Welcome to Sharjah, Boulogne: Editions Delroisse, n.d
[c. 1973]), p. 30.

10. Imperial Outpost, pp. 50-52 and fig. 3.18.
11. ‘8,500 miles in 8 days. Our editor’s flight from Singapore to London by Imperial
Airways’ in The Annual of the East 1935, p. 72.

12. Imperial Outpost, pp. 52, 72.

13. IOR/L/PS/12/1986, Air Ministry to Under-Secretary, 19 December 1934; also Foreign
Secretary, Govt. of India to India Office London, 19 February 1935. The building outside
the fort that I previously identified as the meteorological service building must have had
a different function.
14. Imperial Outpost, pp. 105, 109; see now IOR/R/15/2/267, e.g. Air HQ, British Forces
in Iraq to Political Agent (PA) Bahrain, 2 January 1937, and the plan IOR/R/15/2/267
f 160, Sharjah. Proposed Additional Accommodation to Rest House, extracted in Fig. 3
here.

15. Imperial Outpost, p. 137.
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