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The neo-Gothic High Court building, constructed between 1864 and 1872, is the oldest in India. The design, by then government architect Walter Granville, was loosely modelled on the 13th-century Cloth Hall at Ypres, Belgium.
Qui a ridosso del fiume del fiume Hoogly che altro non è che il ramo principale del delta del Gange, un cane e un ragazzo dormono incuranti sulle ceneri di una pira (catasta di legna per bruciarvi sopra i cadaveri).
Calcutta si è affermata anche per il macabro commercio internazionale di ossa umane che vengono raccolte nei ghat (gradinate sul fiume) dove hanno luogo le cremazioni all'ombra del gigantesco ponte di Howrah e forse anche in questo contrabbando amorale c'è lo zampino delle industrie farmaceutiche.
È a tutti noto che le strade di Calcutta sono affollate da milioni di indigenti abbandonati a se stessi. Non a caso la divinità protettrice di Calcutta è Kali, terribile dea della distruzione e della morte.
Dalhousie. I was located at the nearby 'Great Western Hotel' and had just woken up after 16 hours of sleep following an extremely tiring 10 days-trip through northern India using night trains and bad hotels! January 2003
The port at Calcutta had/ has an extensive internal broad gauge (5'6") rail network although access to most of its was nigh on impossible. I can't remember the exact circumstance, but we managed to arrange a brief visit to the shed area where we saw a few locos stabled and in steam.
On 18 January 1979, 0-6-2T No.9 was shunting nearby - it was built by Hunslet Engineering of Leeds in 1949.
45 of these 0-6-2Ts tanks were built for the Calcutta Port Commissioners by Hunslet, Henschel and Mitsubishi between 1945-1955.
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The Calcutta Pit was one of 5 collieries (pits) in Swannington. These gradually stopped being mined in the late 19th century. However, when pumping stopped in these pits, the water began to seep down into mines in the newly developing town of Coalville. In order to solve this problem, it was necessary to set up a Joint Pumping Company, at the former Calcutta mine to drain the whole new coalfield. The Calcutta pumping engine was made by Robert Stephenson and Co. It was capable of removing 54,000 gallons of water an hour. It was installed in 1877 at a cost of £13,000 and worked until 1947 when it was replaced with electric pumps. The building is listed Grade II and is now used as offices.
Calcutta Tramways Company (CTC) articulated SLC tram 717 on route 25 passing the Eastern Gate to Raj Bhavan which was Government House prior to Independence in 1947.
There are four different types of wheeled transport in this photo: the tram, a very crowded bus, a Hindustan Ambassador taxi (the Indian version of the Morris Cowley) and a bicycle! 08/11/1989 [TRM 273].
The Calcutta Pit was one of 5 collieries (pits) in Swannington. These gradually stopped being mined in the late 19th century. However, when pumping stopped in these pits, the water began to seep down into mines in the newly developing town of Coalville. In order to solve this problem, it was necessary to set up a Joint Pumping Company, at the former Calcutta mine to drain the whole new coalfield. The Calcutta pumping engine was made by Robert Stephenson and Co. It was capable of removing 54,000 gallons of water an hour. It was installed in 1877 at a cost of £13,000 and worked until 1947 when it was replaced with electric pumps. The building is listed Grade II and is now used as offices.
This WBTC [West Bengal Transport Corporation] Route 14 service had just departed from the Esplanade Terminus in the centre of Calcutta (Kolkata).
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M.G. Road at Calcutta ( Kolkata ) in the state of West Bengal in India. It is a 3 KM stretch road from Howrah Bridge to Central Avenue through Barabazar Area towards Sealdah Station. Formerly known as Harrison Road.