Gomti riverfront project April 13, 2016

Qila Mohammadi Nagar, Banglabazar, Lucknow

The Qila Mohammadi Nagar at Banglabazar, Lucknow
was renamed Qila Bijli Pasi by the BSP government
under Chief Minister Mayawati.
I have searched the internet but couldn't find any
information on Maharaja Bijli Pasi or the fort.
Who built it? No information is available.
I first visited this place 40-odd years ago, many
years before the government took charge of the site.
The walls of the fort are just dried earth and the four corners
must have had some sort of brick fortifications.
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A brief history of Maharaja Bijli Pasi in Hindi

The Chauri Chaura memorial

The memorial at the Chauri Chara police station
 that was erected in memory of the policemen burnt
at the police station  by a
mob. The poorly done inscription in Hindi
would mean that it has been redone
and seems to have omitted the names of the officers

The memorial erected in memory of
those killed in police firing at Chauri Chaura
opposite the railway station

The martyrs memorial from the overbridge

The brief history seen here is at the martyrs memorial. It had to be 
photograph it two sections and unfortunately, the bottom half has gone above

The Chauri Chaura police station with rifle slits

This plaque probably has the name of the
politician who sanctioned the funds for
the wall

The old memorial seen from the road probably never had an
inner enclosure.   

Cricket anywhere, anytime!

Cricket anywhere, anytime!

Vegetable vendors!

In the late evening cold two vegetable stalls in Lucknow, one under a street light
and the other on the right using LED battery powered lights

Penknives

All pen knives in the past century didn't fold
Number 3 here is the well-known Swiss made Victorinox that is now available worldwide. Number 2 is a penknife whose blade
has reduced by at least an inch. It lay almost unused in a toolbox for several decades. On it was engraved Made in Germany and a goat engraved on it. I was familiar with the goat on the blade of pocket knives in the past but they were all locally made, in or around Lucknow.
Recently, I googled Goat brand pocket knives and was surprised to find a wide collection of old knives of the same brand of English make!
The knife at no. 1 is an original fixed blade pen knife of unknown vintage. They were used to trim reed dip pens
and this one came to me from an uncle.

Chitwarpur-Lalkaun lane, Lucknow***