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From: "Molly Hamilton" <>
Subject: Re: [India-L] The Official Calcutta Website - reply
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 21:49:43 +1000
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Thanks Sandra, will have a look right now. I find the printed maps so
confusing just can't remember all the new names. Hoping to visit within the
next year DV and just can't wait to get there. Everyone keeps telling me
not to expect too much!!! and that I'll be very disappointed - I will try my
best to keep an open mind, after all, everything and everyone moves on.

St Thomas' Middleton Row played a very important part in many of our lives.
It served as parish church for a very large area until the Church of Christ
the King was built. My brother and my cousin were amongst the first babies
to be baptised at Christ the King in 1944 though my parents always took me
to the 8am Mass at Middleton Row on Christmas Day - I was too young to
attend midnight Mass at Christ the King. My parents were married and I was
baptised at Middleton Row by the same priest who became parish priest at
Christ the King, Fr Errol Cowen.

Sandra, are you a Calcutta girl?

Molly Hamilton a proud Anglo Indian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandra D" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, May 05, 2003 8:02 AM
Subject: [India-L] The Official Calcutta Website


> Hi Beryl,
>
> Yes, they all still exist though your Humayon Place is now Humayun Place,
> changed back to its original Indian name, probably named for the Mughal
> emperor Humayun - the Luckless Leader.
>
> As with most cities post-British, local freedom fighters and personalities
> names have replaced the old ones but Calcutta being Calcutta, even taxi
> drivers respond to the old names and sometimes have no idea if you give
them
> the 'new' names.
>
> A site with plenty of info on Cal is www.calmanac.org. Though navigation
is
> not one of it's strong points, if you have time browse through it and you
> will come upon a list of all the streets in Cal with old and new names,
you
> will probably find a map somewhere, and for those interested in checking
if
> they still have people with their names living in Cal, there is an
> up-to-date online telephone directory. There are some wonderful pictures
of
> old Calcutta though one should hold the cursor over the thumbnail for a
few
> seconds before clicking on it to see the embedded name and description as
> the enlarged picture does not have it.
>
> Molly, hope you enjoy it too!
>
> Take care
> Sandra in Hong Kong
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Beryl Packman" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2003 6:09 AM
> Subject: [India-L] Street map of calcutta
>
>
> > Please can anyone tell me whether these places still exist in Calcutta
or
> where abouts in the city they were?
> >
> > Listed as living accommodation in 1898-1913:
> >
> > 6 Humayon Place, 18 Chowringhee Road
> >
> > 11 Lower Rawdon Street
> >
> > Listed as the address for the Standard Oil Co of New York 1898:
> >
> > 8 Dalhousie Square East
> >
> > Thank you, Beryl.
> >
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