belatee

Updated: May 8, 2025

There used to stand on the site of this very handsome-looking block of buildings a long, one-storeyed tenement which went by the name of "The Belatee Bungalow," the proprietors being two brothers of the name of Payne. They sold provisions of all sorts and did a very lucrative trade. There was only one other shop of the kind in Calcutta, the Great Eastern Hotel.

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

Before we proceed further on our travels I may as well state that Chowringhee, Esplanade Row, East, and Park Street were devoid of European shops, with the exception of the Belatee Bungalow, and, I think, T.E. Thomson & Co. The next street to arrest our attention is

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century

Small Cause Court Treasury and Imperial Secretariat Building, at the present time Department of Commerce and Industry, Council House Street, built on site of Old Foreign Office Foreign and Military Secretariat, built on the site of the "Belatee Bungalow" Dalhousie Square, showing Post Office and Writers' Buildings Old view of the Great Eastern Hotel Present view of the Great Eastern Hotel

Montague Massey - Recollections of Calcutta for over Half a Century