It was the "quartel" during the Portuguese times, and entrance to it (as were other Portuguese instalations) was open to any Goan, contrary to what it is now. I remember having lost a cap in between the quartel and and the Instituto Vasco de Gama (as IMB was knwon then) whilst returning back from a soccer game when I was a five year old... ah! memories!
There was little if any "secrecy" in most places in those days. I read somewhere that Erlich Pinto was actually able to go to on the tarmac at Dabolim without being challenged, when he was on a spying trip to Goa a couple of months before he actually bombed the place. There was trust in the fellow human being, something that has long been lost. ----- Original Message ---- > From: JoeGoaUk <joego...@yahoo.co.uk> > To: goa...@goanet.org > Sent: Sat, 4 September, 2010 11:40:58 AM > Subject: [Goanet] Talking photos: Curious to know about this building history > > Curious to know about this building history > > If it was build during pre-liberation era, just wondering > what was here before Army took it over? > * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Now available in Toronto, a few copies of *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Contact Bosco D'Mello bo...@goanet.org (416) 803-7264 http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/