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Now we will walk across to the Chowringhee Road, where the finest private residences of the city are situated. On our left is the Government House, which we passed when we came in. It is a fine building, and it has a large garden of its own." "But what is it for?" asked the lady. "It is the residence of the governor-general, generally called the viceroy; and he has his offices there.
It was quite an ordinary looking dwelling enclosed by a brick-wall skirting Chowringhee Road, and the building extended for some little distance down Kyd Street. In addition to the club house itself, there were several other houses in Park Street attached to it, and I think where the Masonic Lodge has now its habitation was once their property.
View of Tramway Company's Esplanade Junction before shelter was built Grand Hotel The five houses in Chowringhee that formed the nucleus of the Grand Hotel W. Leslie & Co.'s premises, Chowringhee W. Leslie & Co.'s premises, Chowringhee Esplanade Mansions, built by Mr. Ezra on the site of Scott Thomson's Corner Thacker, Spink & Co.'s new premises, completed in 1916
Present-day view of United Service Club Park House, Park Street, William Heath's Premises The "Haunted" House, corner of Sudder Street, Chowringhee G.F. Kellner & Co.'s premises in Chowringhee. Army and Navy Stores, Chowringhee Chowringhee Mansions, built on the site of Old United Service Club Hall & Anderson's premises, at the corner of Park Street Old Bengal Club New Bengal Club
The street as all can see has undergone quite a transformation, more particularly in that section near the Chowringhee end, and has now become an ornament and acquisition to the city. Here, as it says in the "Directory," is Chowringhee Place, formerly known as Chowringhee, but so utterly changed as to make it difficult to recognise it as the old street of the past.
He wished all Cheltenham, all Chowringhee, all Calcutta, could see him in that position, waving his hand to such a beauty, and in company with such a famous buck as Rawdon Crawley of the Guards.
House-rent was ridiculously cheap in comparison with the rates of the present day. As far as I recollect, the biggest house in Chowringhee was obtainable for Rs. 400 or Rs. 450 at the outside. No. 3, London Street, where my Burra Sahib then lived, was only Rs. 300 a month. A horse and syce cost about Rs. 25 a month to keep, and everything else in proportion.
Llewellyn Stanhope saw that there was competition, sighed to think how much, as he stood in the foggy vestibule of the Imperial Theatre wrapped in the impressive folds of his managerial cape, and pulled his moustache and watched the occasional carriage that rolled his way up the narrow lane from Chowringhee.
He left the theatre and walked light-headedly across Chowringhee and out into the starlit empty darkness of the Maidan, where presently he stumbled upon a wooden bench under a tree. There, after a little, sleep fell upon his amazement, and he lay unconscious for an hour or two, while the breeze stole across the grass from the river and the mast-head lights watched beside the city.
I picked up in a print-shop the other day some superb views of the suburbs of Chowringhee, and the villas of the Garden Reach. Selina professes that she is ready to die with envy of the fine houses and verandahs. Ever yours To Macvey Napier, Esq. London: December 5, 1833 Dear Napier, You are probably not unprepared for what I am about to tell you.
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