View of Shipping from Hastings' Bridge - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1860's
Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Hastings
Bridge crossed the Tolly Nullah, a canal off of the Hooghly River, was
named after the Governor-General Marquis of Hastings (1813-1823)
administration. In 1874 this suspension bridge collapsed and was
replaced by a stronger bridge.
The Bentinck Statue and Government House - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1860's
Photographer: Samuel Bourne
A
view looking eastwards along Esplanade Row, with Richard Westmacott's
statue of Sir William Cavendish-Bentinck, Governor-General of India from
1833-1835, in the foreground and the western entrance to Government
House beyond. Government House, designed by Captain Charles Wyatt and
built between 1799-1802, was the residence for the British
Governors-General till 1911.
Source: British Library
Tolly's Nullah (Adi Ganga) near Kalighat - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1860's
Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Photograph of Tolly's Nullah or Adi
Ganga near Kalighat from 'Views of Calcutta and Barrackpore' taken by
Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. The south-eastern Calcutta suburbs of
Alipore and Kalighat were connected by bridges constructed over Tolly's
Nullah.
Source: British Library
Great Eastern Hotel and Old Court House Street - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Old
Court House Street is located on the eastern side of Dalhousie Square
and this northern view of Old Court House Street shows St Andrew's
Church in the distance, with the Great Eastern Hotel on the right.Source: British Library
Old Court House Street Looking North - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Old
Court House Street is located on the eastern side of Dalhousie Square.
In this view, St. Andrew's Church is visible on the north corner of
Old Court House Street and Lal Bazar Street.
Source: British Library
Old Court House Street - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
Photographer: Oscar Mallitte
Old
Court House Street ran from Esplanade Row to Lal Bazaar on the eastern
side of Dalhousie Square in Calcutta. This view shows one of the four
ceremonial gateways to Government House on the left, which were based
on designs for Adam's archways at Syon House in Middlesex, and St
Andrews Church at the end of the street in Lal Bazaar. On the right of
the view are commercial buildings. St. Andrew's Church is visible on
the north corner of Old Court House Street and Lal Bazar Street in the
distance.Source: British Library
The Esplanade and Government House from Chowringhee - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1865
Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Source: British Library
Eden Gardens - Kolkata (Calcutta) 1860
Eden Gardens, situated at the northern end of the Maidan, in Calcutta, was named after Emily and Fanny Eden, the sisters of Lord Auckland, Governor-General from 1836-1842. The sisters tended the garden when it formed part of the Viceroy's estate and later it became a famous public garden, opened in 1840. Part of the garden forms the Ranji Stadium where the first cricket match was played in 1864; today Eden Gardens is renowned as a cricket stadium. Eden Gardens also contains a Pagoda, brought from Prome in Burma after the Second Burmese War and erected in 1856, by Lord Dalhousie, then the Governor-General. This is a view in the Eden Gardens, looking across the stone bridge towards the pagoda.
Source: British Library
The Strand Road - Kolkata (Calcutta) 1865
The Strand Road extends along the
Kolkata's Hooghly river from the northern point of Chandpaul Ghaut to
beyond Fort William and Prinsep's Ghaut, near Tolly's Nulla. The Road
was part of Marquess Wellesley's scheme for the embankment of the
river.
Photographer: Bourne and Shepherd
Source: British Library
Landscape near Simla, Himachal Pradesh - 1860's
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