This stunning image shows Airport Road in Abu Dhabi as it sweeps down to the Corniche.
It was taken by Alain Saint Hilaire in 1975 from the roof of a building on the corner of Electra Street. Or to use their proper names, Zayed the First Street and Sheikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum street.
The names are not the only thing to have changed in 40 years. The roundabout in the foreground is now a major junction over an underpass, while the large area of sand on the left, with Qasr Al Hosn just visible, is now home to the Cultural Foundation.
To the right of the wide central median is empty land now home to what a taxi driver would the Marks & Spencer Mall, but is more correctly the Fotouh Al Khair Mall. It opened in 1999.
On the other side of the road is a building surrounded by a fence. It is unidentified, but a girl’s was established here in the late 1960s.
Further back and harder to pick out is a large building just behind the junction with Hamdan bin Mohammed Street that was the city’s bus station until it moved to the current location in the 1980s.
And behind that are two more vanished scenes of old Abu Dhabi; the distinctive minarets of the Al Fahim Mosque and the Clock Tower Roundabout.
Finally, out at sea, is a breakwater, constructed to protect against storms and flooding and which, in time, would be enlarged to become Lulu Island.
* James Langton
