All These Photographs are Of English Commemorative Stones, Interior and Exterior Of British Times Beautiful Building Of Po
stal Museum and Philatelic Library Located in the City Of Calcutta (Kolkata), West Bengal, India. The Museum Consists of Four Rooms and There Placed Postcards from Three Different Era (East India Company, British India and Free India), Belts and Badges from the Various Departments, War Medals Earned By the Postal Department, Signature of Rabindranath Tagore in His Postal Savings Pass Book, An Early Map of Calcutta, Enamel Prints Depicting the Benefits of Quinine, Postal Endowment Assurance with the Signature of C V Raman, Old Postal Mail Collection Box, brass plates, sea signaling lanterns, weighing scale with standardized, maps of old air mail routes, maps of postal service availability during British India, Belts worn by the various staffs of the postal departments with their designation embossed on brass buckle and large vintage post collection boxes.
White Commemorative Stone Reads As:
'This Building was Erected for the Accommodation of the offices of Director General of Post Office of India. And was begun in 1884 and completed in 1885.
His Excellency The Earl of Dufferin K.P.G.C.B.,G.C.M.G. SC Being Viceroy and Governor General of India and The Honorable Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson K.C.S.T.,C.I.E., Lieutenant Governor of Bengal.
Government Architect Mr. E. Just. Mortin
Supts. Of works Major A. C. Bigg Wither, Major G.F.ES Neill, Executive Engineer Mr. H. Cloete.
Sub-Divisional Officer Sub-Conductor Mr. J. Mc. Minn.
Colonel S. T. Trevor R. E Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government of Bengal Public Works Department. '
Black Coloured Commemorative Stone Was Erected in the Pathetic Memory of the incident of Black Hole Of Calcutta 1756 And Shouts as Below :
' The Marble Pavement Below this Spot was placed here by Lord Curzon Viceroy And Governor General of India in 1901 To mark the Site of the Prison in old Fort William Known as The Black Hole in which 146 British Inhabitants of Calcutta were Confined on the night of the 20th June 1756 and from which only 23 came out alive.
The Pavement marks the Exact Breadth of the Prison 14 feet 10 Inches but not its fully length 18 Feet.
About one third of the area at the North End being covered by the Building on which This Tablet is Fixed. '
Photographs By Mr Subhadip Mukherjee Sahib
White Commemorative Stone Reads As:
'This Building was Erected for the Accommodation of the offices of Director General of Post Office of India. And was begun in 1884 and completed in 1885.
His Excellency The Earl of Dufferin K.P.G.C.B.,G.C.M.G. SC Being Viceroy and Governor General of India and The Honorable Sir Augustus Rivers Thompson K.C.S.T.,C.I.E., Lieutenant Governor of Bengal.
Government Architect Mr. E. Just. Mortin
Supts. Of works Major A. C. Bigg Wither, Major G.F.ES Neill, Executive Engineer Mr. H. Cloete.
Sub-Divisional Officer Sub-Conductor Mr. J. Mc. Minn.
Colonel S. T. Trevor R. E Chief Engineer and Secretary to Government of Bengal Public Works Department. '
Black Coloured Commemorative Stone Was Erected in the Pathetic Memory of the incident of Black Hole Of Calcutta 1756 And Shouts as Below :
' The Marble Pavement Below this Spot was placed here by Lord Curzon Viceroy And Governor General of India in 1901 To mark the Site of the Prison in old Fort William Known as The Black Hole in which 146 British Inhabitants of Calcutta were Confined on the night of the 20th June 1756 and from which only 23 came out alive.
The Pavement marks the Exact Breadth of the Prison 14 feet 10 Inches but not its fully length 18 Feet.
About one third of the area at the North End being covered by the Building on which This Tablet is Fixed. '
Photographs By Mr Subhadip Mukherjee Sahib
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