'Peshawar Fort and surroundings, from Jail', 1862 (c)

Photograph by William Baker or John Burke, India, North West Frontier, 1862 (c).

This view of the fort is one of the earliest ever taken of Peshawar and includes a portion of the Grand Trunk Road which ran from Bengal all the way up to the Khyber Pass.

The Bala Hissar fort in Peshawar is now the headquarters of Pakistan's Frontier Corps. The site was a royal residence of the Durrani dynasty of Afghanistan and was subsequently developed as a fortress by Sikh and British engineers.

From an album of 100 photographs by J Burke.