On the street where you live

The last entry of the Calcutta Street Directory of 1915 published by P.M. Bagchi & Company Private Limited is on Halliday Street named after Sir Frederick James Halliday, KCB, the first lieutenant governor of Bengal (1854-1859). The street was swept aside when the Calcutta Improvement Trust (set up in 1911) began the construction of Central … Continue reading On the street where you live