'Trevandrum Observatory...from the North West' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm 1st June 1968

1st June 1968

Kingsland Road

'The Sunday Question'

Two journalists

possibly a member of the Towneley family

'Trevandrum Observatory...from the North West' Size:XL: 100 x 75cm 1st June 1968View of Trevandrum Observatory from the north west. The main observatory is shown on small hill on the skyline. The observatory was designed and constructed in 1837 by W. H. Horsley, a lieutenant in the Madras Engineers, under the patronage of Sri Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma (1813 1846) Maharaja of the State of Travancore [now Thiruvananthapuram in the state of Kerala, India]. Plate 2 from Description of an observatory established at Trevandrum by his