Places

Placesस्थल

Every place needs three frames — wide (where it is), medium (what it is, in use), and one detail (the thing that dates it). A place with only a wide shot is not documented.

2 of 16 places photographed

Railway

कोइरीपुर रेलवे स्टेशनKoiripur railway station

Station code KEPR, on Northern Railway's Lucknow division, on the Varanasi–Sultanpur–Lucknow line via Jaunpur.

Not yet photographed

Education

इंटर कॉलेजThe inter college

School group photographs survive more systematically than almost any other local record.

Photograph wanted

Not yet photographed

Education

प्राथमिक विद्यालयThe primary school

A principal documentary source for the period after 1947.

Photograph wanted

Not yet photographed

Railway

रेलवे समपारThe level crossing

The gateman's routine, and a social space as much as an operational one.

Photograph wanted

Agriculture

खेतों की सीमाThe field edge

Where the built-up area ends and the fields begin — the town's actual extent, which no map shows accurately.

A place we're missing?

This list is not complete and does not claim to be. If a place belongs on it — a building that has gone, a pond that was filled in, a shop that closed — tell us.

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