We met at the foot of Shahid Minar at 7AM in the morning. It was a bit foggy and chilly. We are enjoying an early winter chill and record low temperatures in Kolkata this year. After enjoying a steaming cup of tea at the CSTC Canteen and began our walk.
ROUTE We crossed the J.L.Nehru Road and Lenin Sarani crossing and took Bentinck Street. Then we took left along the Waterloo Street, reaching the Great Eastern Hotel, we took right along the Hemanta Basu Sarani to B.B.D.Bagh Square. Then we proceeded along B.B.D.Bagh Sarani and took left turn to Red Cross Place to reach the entrance of Raj Bhawan. From there we proceeded along the Government Place to St John's Church and took right along Council House Street and Netaji Subhash Road and ended at the Writers Buildings. MONUMENTS We covered the following monuments. 1. Shahid Minar 2. Metropolitan Building 3. Tipu Sultan Mosque 4. Victoria House 5. Statesman House 6. Aaykar Bhawan 7. Great Eastern Hotel 8. Central Telegraph Office 9. National Assurance Building 10. Junior Staff Quarters of the Governor 11. Raj Bhawan 12. St. John's Church 13. General Post Office 14. Kolkata Collectorate 15. Writers' Building 16. St. Andrews Chapel STATUES 1. Lenin 2. Asutosh Mookerjee 3. Prafulla Chaki 4. Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy 5. Binay Badal Dinesh Please correct me if I missed out something. Thanks and regards, Kalyan Sarkar On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Jayanta Nath <jayanta...@gmail.com> wrote: > Congratulation to all for our first step of success. Please anyone tell > what we cover > > -- > With Warm Regards, > *Jayanta Nath* > Calcutta,West Bengal > > <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb> > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-in-wb/attachments/20111218/83081d1d/attachment.htm > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-in-WB mailing list > wikimedia-in...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-in-wb >
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