BBD Walk Details – Restore Kolkata

Dalhousie Sq. More Details

Part I: Lal Bazar to Telephone Bh..

Part II: Currency Ho. to Samriddhi Bh.

Old Mission Church

Holwel Monument

Raj Bhvan (Governor's House)

Writers Building

Old Mission Church

Holwell Monument

1. First Holwell Monument in 1757
2. The first Holwell Monument lasted till 1821
3. First Holwell monument dismantled but with a plaque on pavement
4. Lord Curzon built the second Holwell Monument in 1900
5. Netaji started an agitation against the monumrnt when the second holwell monument was shifted from this location.

Raj Bhavan

1. One of the earliest paintings in 1826 by Bailey
2. A lithograph of 1837
3. Raj Bhaban from the front
4. A 1920 photograph from the southwest
5. A photograph from the southeast
6. The Govt. House plan designed it in 1803. It copied the Keddlestone country house plan designed by Adam in about 1760 shown in the next slide
7. Keddlestone house is considered to be one of the best designed country house in England. Lord Curzon was from the same family.
8. Governor House in Kolkata had four wings as originally designed.
9. Keddlestone, the family of Curzon didn’t have money to build all four as designed but only built the two wings.
10. Lok Bhavan from the front at present.

Writers Building

1. Writers’ Buildings, 1786 Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840)
2. Writers’ Buildings, 1798 Daniell, Thomas (1749-1840) Aquatint, coloured
3. Writer’ Buildings, 1851. Fiebig, Frederick Photographic print
4. Writers’ Buildings, 1878 Photographer: Unknown Photographic print
6. Writers’ Buildings by Hoffmann (c.1855-1921) in before 1892
7. Designed by Thomas Lyon in 1777 then called the 'Great Bunglow Road'
8. Writers view from Dalhousie Club in around 1890
9. Rotunda was built in around 1895
10. Terrrace sculptures describing agriculture, commerce, justice and science
11. Writers with pavement renovation in about 2015
12. Memorial for Grant on the pavement
13. Plaque of the Grant memorial