BBD Bagh

Photographs of the quarter. Open one to see it full size.

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  North KolkataPlate 01
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  Victoria MemorialPlate 02
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  Boi ParaPlate 03

• Writers' Building →

  1777, refaced 1889. The seat of Bengal's government for two centuries.

• General Post Office →

  1868. Built on the site of the original Fort William.

• St. John's Church →

  1787. The city's second-oldest church, with Job Charnock's mausoleum.

• Currency Building

  1833. Restored and now an exhibition space.

• St. Andrew's Kirk

  1818. The Scots put a spire on it taller than St. John's, deliberately.

• Lal Dighi

  The tank at the centre. Older than the city around it.

• Anadi Cabin

  Esplanade, ten minutes south

  Mughlai paratha since 1925.

• K.C. Das

  Esplanade

  Nobin Chandra's descendants. Rosogolla at the counter.

• The Dalhousie office lunch stalls

  Lanes off the square, 1–3pm

  Rice, dal, fish, on a steel plate, for very little.

1. 01

   The Writers' reflection in Lal Dighi

   From the south side of the tank. The shot everyone misses by standing too close.

2. 02

   Job Charnock's mausoleum

   St. John's churchyard. The stone is now called charnockite, after him.

3. 03

   The GPO dome

   Corinthian, on the footprint of the original fort. Brass markers show the Black Hole site.

4. 04

   Sunday morning

   The offices shut and the square becomes legible.