Old brick chimney of a former tile factory
Captured during the Abbakka Queen Cruise, this image shows a solitary brick chimney rising above dense tropical greenery on the banks of the Nethravathi River, a remnant of one of the many tile factories that once lined this stretch of the estuary.
Mangaluru has long been associated with “Mangalore tiles,” the distinctive red clay roofing tiles first produced by the factory established by the Basel Mission in 1865 at Jeppu, a Mangaluru suburb, using clay available along the banks of the Nethravathi. Mangalore tiles then became one of the region’s major export goods.
In the foreground, a line of blue-and-white buoys marks what appears to be an aquaculture enclosure in the water, adding another layer of the estuary’s working life alongside its industrial past. This is an indication of the new economy replacing the old.
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