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 Posted on: 30 October 2010

Auckland Hotel, Calcutta - 1851.

A hand-coloured print of the Auckland's Hotel, Calcutta, from the Fiebig Collection: Views of Calcutta and Surrounding Districts, taken by Frederick Fiebig in 1851. This is a view looking north along Old Court House Street towards the Auckland Hotel (later the Great Eastern Hotel). The premises of Winser & Co and Lattey Bros are in the foreground. The hotel was established as a rival to Spence's hotel, which was the first hotel in Calcutta. The hotel has had many illustrious guests including MARK TWAIN.

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Hotel with a history by Suhrid Sankar Chattopadhyay for Hindu in Kolkata The Great Eastern Hotel in Kolkata enters another phase in its history with the Left Front government in West Bengal clearing the process of its sale to private owners. Full article : http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/fl2217/stories/20050826001608400.htm

A glimpse of what the hotel must have been like during this period can be found in Rudyard Kipling's short story "City of Dreadful Night" from the book The City of Dreadful Night and Other Places (1891): http://www.archive.org/stream/outofindiathings01kipl#page/212/mode/2up

Today's Old Court House Street is very different.