barnagore

Updated: May 19, 2025

The only place for handing in telegrams for transmission was on the first floor landing, through a small opening cut in the door leading into the Jute Department of the Barnagore Jute Co., and the operators were clearly visible in the room beyond working at their instruments.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

The place was then known as it is at the present day as Aloe Godown or Potato Bazaar, and was in the occupation of George Henderson & Co. as an office when they were agents of the Borneo Jute Co., afterwards converted into the Barnagore Jute Co.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

They had all been driven helter-skelter in every direction, some as far north as Cossipore, and one vessel, the Earl of Clare, was landed high and dry on the present site of the assistants' bungalow of the north mill of the Barnagore Jute Company.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

There were in those days no gunny brokers, their services not being required, as the only Jute Mill then in existence was the Borneo Company, which was afterwards converted into the Barnagore Jute Mill Company. Another thing which will strike the present-day broker as strange is that there was no Exchange where brokers and merchants could meet together.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century