The brickworks and bricks of Northern India

Brickworks between Amritsar and Chandigarh

The brickworks of Northern India - Dozens and dozens of small brickworks generally making bricks by hand - the imprints appear to be codes rather than names of brickworks in most cases.

Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh
Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh
Between Amritsar and Chandigarh	Between Amritsar and Chandigarh

Brickworks between Agra and Delhi

Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi	Between Agra and Delhi
Between Agra and Delhi

Brickworks between Dehli and Siliguri

Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri
Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri
Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri		Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri	Between Dehli and New Jalpaiguri

Brickworks between Chennai and Coimbatore

Between Chennai and Coimbatore	Between Chennai and Coimbatore	Between Chennai and Coimbatore	Between Chennai and Coimbatore
Between Chennai and Coimbatore	Between Chennai and Coimbatore	Between Chennai and Coimbatore	Between Chennai and Coimbatore
Around Mettupalayam	Around Mettupalayam	Around Mettupalayam

and their bricks

'3.K' at Amritsar	'A98K' at Siliguru	'AKN' type 1 at Shimla	'AKN' type 2 at Shimla
'AMAR' at Shimla	'BMX' at Shimla	'BRUN' reversed at Kurseong	'C.L.' at Shimla
'CL25' at Shimla	'CMK', imprinted on end at Ooty	'CMK', imprinted on end at Ooty	'DD36' at Shimla
'HAHAN' at Kurseong	'INDIA' at Darjeeling	'JANTA' at Siliguri	'JAVA' at Kurseong
'KLC' at Amritsar	'MADAN' at Kurseong	'MBCO' at Kurseong	'MOHAN' at Siliguri
'MOTI' at Siliguri	'NAMO' at Darjeeling	'NBC' at Darjeeling	'R+V' at Amritsar
'RAJA' at Darjeeling	'RP&CO' type 1 at Darjeeling	'RP&CO' type 2 at Darjeeling	'S+I' near Kalimpong
'Sompot' at Siliguri	Sanskrit imprint at Agra	'SPCK' at Siliguri	'SLM' at Amritsar
'SRP' at Darjeeling	'SVB' at Ooty	'VIKAS' at Darjeeling	'VIP' at Darjeeling

The aerial ropeway in Darjeeling

The British Ropeway Engineering Co Ltd

The British Ropeway Engineering Co Ltd built this aerial ropeway in the 1930s to bring tea from the Happy Valley Tea Garden and others to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway terminus near the bazaar. Tea traffic was one of the mainstays of the DHR until freight services dwindled in the 1980s.

The Darjeeling aerial ropeway	The Darjeeling aerial ropeway	The Darjeeling aerial ropeway	The Darjeeling aerial ropeway
The Darjeeling aerial ropeway

The 'toy' train at Ooty

Ooty Lake

The 'toy' train at Ooty runs along the side of Ooty lake

The 'toy' train at Ooty	The 'toy' train at Ooty	The 'toy' train at Ooty	The 'toy' train at Ooty
The 'toy' train at Ooty	The 'toy' train at Ooty

High Field Tea Factory

Swamy and Swamy Plantations Pvt. Ltd, Coonoor

A typical small tea factory near Coonoor

High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory
High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory
High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory
High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory
High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory
High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory	High Field Tea factory

Other Industries

Aruvankadu cordite factory, near Coonoor

The Aruvankadu cordite factory is one of 40 Indian Ordnance Factories. It is one of the oldest Defence Factories coming under the rein of the Ministry of Defence and the Indian Ordnance Factories. The Cordite Factory was established in 1903 by the then British Government on a huge campus and it still caters to the Defence Services by manufacturing Cordite (gunpowder, as it is generally known) which is used in manufacturing arms and ammunition and also as a propellant in various armed tanks. (information from Wikipaedia)

Aruvankadu cordite factory

Aruvankadu cordite factory

Aruvankadu cordite factory

Aruvankadu cordite factory

Other Industries

Solon Brewery on the Kalka Shimla Railway, an Industrial complex between Chennai and Coimbatore and other bits and pieces.

The Solon Brewery, near Kalka	The Solon Brewery, near Kalka	A ship-shape block of flats?	Looks like a water tower
River-bank industrial complex	River-bank industrial complex	River-bank industrial complex	River-bank industrial complex
River-bank industrial complex	Dam near Erode	Petrol engine in Chennai	Cement mixer near Darjeeling
Road roller near Darjeeling	'Lord Jyoti' lamp post