The Telicherry fort was a key domain of contentions and contests from time to time.During the auspicious day of VISHU this year just happened to visit this fort.
Compared with the Cannanore fort it is small and miniscule and must have come earlier than the Cannnanore fort ..but its time of origin is unclear to me and the Fort looks more like a Watch Tower.
Within the confines of this fort operated the EIC(East India Company) and its administrative machinery..the Fort being secured from Tippu Sultan who had a sway over this Fort for nearly a decade and a key trading post. Today there is a Hospital adjacent to the Fort which must have been part of the Fort and a small parade ground.
In the center of the fort I saw a abandoned heavy machinery marked PETERSBUROUGH on it.I mistook it to be some left-over ordnance.I had a discussion with Nick Balmer who told me that Petersburough was a place where he grew up and is full of organizations that make agricultural machinery and this heavy equipment is possibly a weed cutting machine when run over a terrain it cut weeds like a lawn-mover.
The Fort overloooks the sea here and the Arabian Sea looks imposing from the Fort.
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