Vadakara: The 150-year-old registrar office in the town is slowly fading into memory. The oldest office building in the taluk, it is now being dismantled to make way for the construction of a new Revenue Tower building.

Though the registrar office had shifted its operations to a rented building two years ago, the demolition of this historic structure has begun only now.

The tiled-roof building, which comprised doors, windows, and a roof frame made of Burma ironwood (irul), also housed termite-resistant wooden safes, where documents dating back to as early as 1870 were carefully preserved.

Once the Revenue Tower is completed on this site, the registrar office will return to the premises, with rooms already earmarked for it on the fifth floor of the new building.