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15 Old Pictures of Trivandrum in the early 1900’s – Blast from the Past

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Living in the capital city, Trivandrum ? Have a look at these really old pictures of the city. Take a trip back in time.

1. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

university college

2. MUSEUM

Museum of Trivandrum - 1900

3. KANAKAKUNNU PALACE

kanakaunnu palace

4.GOLF LINKS

museum111

5. NEAR FORT (where the KSRTC buses are parked now)

before ksrtc

 

6. PADMANABHA SWAMY TEMPLE

padmanabha

 

7. CHANDRASHEKAR NAIR STADIUM

neh

8. CHRIST CHURCH – Palayam

 christ church

9. LAKE INSIDE THE ZOO

lake in museum

10. VARKALA CLIFF

varkala (2)

11. PONMUDI

ponmudi

12. Post Master General Office  –  Where CET started functioning.

cheif engineers office tvm

13. KOWDIAR PALACE

 fl001_0

14. CENTRAL JAIL

central jail

15. VJT HALL

jubilee town hall

 

Trivandrum has changed a lot over the years, hasn’t it ?

Comments

13 responses to “15 Old Pictures of Trivandrum in the early 1900’s – Blast from the Past”

  1. james Avatar
    james

    100%. now the beauty of tvm gone for ever

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    1. SHERINABAIJU. Avatar
      SHERINABAIJU.

      Tvm HAS changed a lot. IT’Sold beauty has gone.

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  2. Nitheesh Avatar
    Nitheesh

    Oh My God! This is way too awesome! :/

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    1. glheaven Avatar
      glheaven

      It is not good to use the Lord’s name in vain

      Reply
  3. Padmakumar Avatar
    Padmakumar

    pic.no.13 cannot be accepted……………b’coz i am neibhour to king so i know how the palace is…………..

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  4. sree Avatar
    sree

    pLEASE POST MORE…….

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  5. sree Avatar
    sree

    Great .. Good if we had more

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  6. sunil vasudevan Avatar
    sunil vasudevan

    Some captions are wrong and mis leading.
    1) picture 5 – It is not red fort. there is no red fort in trivandrum. this is the north side of the temple complex and called northern palace. it still looks more or less same.
    2) picture 12 – it is not chief engineer’s office. it is pmg office (post master general. college of Engineering (cet) started functioning here and later moved to the present campus 10 km away. after that it became pmg office. chief engineer office was and is still the old one called public office building the long curved opposite to the museum campus

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  7. Dr.C.Ramakrishnan Nair Avatar
    Dr.C.Ramakrishnan Nair

    Trivandrum had “the glory and freshness of a dream… but it is now … as it hath been of yore…”

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  8. Peter Gautam Avatar
    Peter Gautam

    The really beautiful part is that all these spots in Trivandrum now have more trees than they did all those years ago.

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  9. gopan Avatar
    gopan

    I’ve stayed in all metros and major cities in India but Thiruvanandhapuram is by far the most cleanest and pedestrian friendly city in India and with the bonus of heritage buildings. This city may lack nightspots, good supermarkets and wine shops but it makes up with the old world charm and motivates me to leave behind my car and walk.

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  10. Joseph Kattoor Avatar
    Joseph Kattoor

    The charm of the old brick buildings and monuments are now covered and eclipsed by ugly concrete structures. The din and bustle of urbanization, and the cacophony of political demonstrations have destroyed the calm of Thiruvananthapuram. This is what I feel as an earlier resident of the town.

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  11. Lakshminarayanan Sreeram Avatar
    Lakshminarayanan Sreeram

    anganeyokke paranja enganaya namukku vikasanamvendayo

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