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Bishop's Palace, Chowringhee Personal. When I first came to Calcutta things were entirely different to the present day. There was, of course, a very much smaller European population, and every one was consequently pretty well known to every one else, but at the same time the cleavage between the different sections of society was much more marked than it is now.
Building erected by Martin & Co. containing these offices Writers' Buildings and Holwell Monument Esplanade East, showing tank now filled in Old view of Esplanade, East, showing Dharamtala Tank The Sir Stuart Hogg Market Chowringhee, showing Tanks opposite Lindsay Street and Bengal Club Modern view of Esplanade, East, showing Tramway Junction and Shelter
They turned into Chowringhee, where the hibiscus bushes showed pink and crimson over the stucco walls, and at the gates of the pillared houses servants with brown and shining backs sat on their haunches in the sun and were shaved.
I might state that Park House above referred to was erected by Mr. Phelps, and was set back seven feet to a new alignment in anticipation of the eventual widening of Park Street at the Chowringhee end which, I believe, the Improvement Trust have in contemplation.
The light struck on the stuccoed upper verandahs of the houses in Chowringhee which made behind their gardens the other border, and seemed to push them back, to underline their scattered insignificance, hinting that the Maidan at its pleasure might surge over them altogether.
Walter Locke & Co.'s premises, Esplanade, East Mackintosh Burn & Co. and Morrison and Cottle's premises, Esplanade, East Bristol Hotel, Chowringhee Corporation Street, showing Hindustan Buildings Proprietors, Hindustan Co-operative Insurance Society, Ld. Old site of the present Continental Hotel, Chowringhee Hotel Continental, Chowringhee The Old United Service Club
Opposite to the hotel there used to be a very dirty and unsightly tank, quite different from all the other tanks in Chowringhee, which was eventually filled up, and the greater part of the ground thus reclaimed has been occupied by the Calcutta Tramways Co. for their Esplanade junction, and a small portion to the extreme west forms part of Lady Curzon's Garden.
Prices of all curios, embroideries and objects of art are much higher in Calcutta than in the cities of northern India, and everybody told us it was the poorest place to buy such things. The most imposing building upon the Chowringhee, the principal street, is the Imperial Museum, which was founded nearly a hundred years ago by the Asiatic Society, and was taken over by the government in 1866.
And at midnight, when the south wind was cool and strong from the river, Strobo and Armour would walk up Chowringhee Road and look at the red brick School of Art from the outside in the light of the street lamps, as a preliminary to our friend's final acceptance of the task of superintending it from within.
O Benign Protector of the Poor! And so, in the current of its passengers, partaking the characteristics of its contrasted extremities, fantastically blending the purple and fine linen of Chowringhee with the breech-cloths of the Black Town, Cossitollah is, as I have said, preeminently the type street of Calcutta.
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