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*St Theresa - built 1893
*St Thomas' Church - (Middleton Row). Begun in 1841, adjacent to the Convent of Our Lady of Loreto
*Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Boitakhana (Baithakhana), founded in 1810, as a Portuguese mission church. The address of the Church was 147 Bipin Behari Ganguly Street (Old Bowbazar Street). This India List [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2004-12/1101937632 post] advises it It is situated quite close to the Sealdah Station, and near the Railway Barracks where most of the Anglo Indian who were employed by the Railway lived. <ref>Munro, George [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2004-12/1101937632 Entally] ''Rootsweb India Mailing List'' 1 December 2004. Retrieved 20 February 2015</ref> A book was published in 1915 in Calcutta ''The Registers & Inscriptions of the Church of Our Lady of Dolours, Baithakhana (1810-1914)'' by [http://www.goethals.in/collections/felixrajarticles/Hhosten.htm Fr H Hosten]. A copy of this book is available in Calcutta at the [http://www.goethals.in/search.asp?cat=38 Goethals Indian Library] category Various Indian Missions subcategory Portuguese Jurisdiction. At least some of the records appear in the [[Calcutta#FIBIS resources|FIBIS database, refer above]], but it is suspected that only some of the records were copied by Percy-Smith and Bullock. From copies of baptismal records obtained from the Church in the 1960s, and held by the FIBIS research co-ordinator, it would appear that some of the registers in the 1800s were noted in Portuguese. **[http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060415/asp/calcutta/story_6095119.asp Non-Christians in church flock]telegraphindia.com Article re Our Lady of Dolours.
*[http://www.goethals.in/GoethalNews/2008Apr-JunGNews.htm Catholic <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other<nowiki>]</nowiki> Heritage Churches of Calcutta] goethals.in
*[http://www.archdioceseofcalcutta.in/archdiocese.html The <nowiki>[</nowiki>Catholic<nowiki>]</nowiki> Archdiocese of Calcutta] with [http://www.archdioceseofcalcutta.in/contact.html contact details]
**"Hall & Anderson" by Christine Furedy in B. Sarkar (ed.), ''Capital Book of Nostalgia, Calcutta'', Capital Press, 1981, pp.17-18. [http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yorku.ca%2Ffuredy%2Fpapers%2Fko%2Fhallan81.doc html version]; [http://www.yorku.ca/furedy/papers/ko/hallan81.doc Original Microsoft Word document], a download to your computer, which must then be opened.
*[http://fds.oup.com/www.oup.co.uk/pdf/0-19-816730-X.pdf "The Calcutta Piano Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century"] by Ian Woodfield from the book ''Music and British Culture, 1785-1914 Essays in Honour of Cyril Ehrlich'' 2000. Oxford University Press.
*[http://double-dolphin.blogspot.com/2015/01/bathgate-co-camac-street-ballygunge.html Bathgate & Co., Camac Street & Ballygunge Circular Road] Bathgate & Co. were the first British chemists in the city of Calcutta, with the Scottish-owned firm starting business in 1811. double-dolphin.com
*[[Calcutta Businesses in 1933]]
**[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/cdoyly.html Views of Calcutta and its Environs] A series of 28 Lithographs (click to view all) by Sir Charles D'oyly, 1781-1845, published 1848. An amateur artist of superb talent, he served in India between 1803 and 1838
**[http://www.victoriamemorial-cal.org/daniells.html Aquatints made by Thomas and William Daniell] in the late eighteenth century, mainly views of Calcutta
*[https://www.flickr.com/photos/23268776@N03/sets/72157606492883938 Photographs: Calcutta] An album by DBHKer flickr.com. Includes a present day map indicating where the buildings are located.
*[http://oldindianphotos.blogspot.com/search/label/Kolkata Old Indian Photos, category Kolkata]
*[http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00routesdata/1600_1699/calcutta/calcutta.html Calcutta] with images from [http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00fwp/ Prof. Frances Pritchett’s webpage]
*Changed street names, old and new [http://www.calcuttaweb.com/roadnamech.shtml Calcuttaweb.com], [http://www.cyp.in/showUsefulInformation.asp?useCatid=29&useCatName=Changed%20Street%20Names Calcutta Yellow Pages]
*[http://double-dolphin.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_27.html Heritage Buildings of Calcutta (Kolkata)] double-dolphin.com
*[http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/restoring-value-to-the-currency-building/article6880033.ece "Restoring value to the Currency Building"] by Shiv Sahay Singh February 11, 2015 ''The Hindu''. The Currency Building was built in 1833 for housing the Agra Bank and then the Reserve Bank of India till 1937
*[http://calcutta1940s.org/Frames.html Calcutta 1940’s] Oral history site
*[http://www.oldmartiniansassociation.co.uk/documents/POLICINGWARTIMECALCUTTA.pdf Policing Wartime Calcutta <nowiki>[</nowiki>WW2<nowiki>]</nowiki>] by Peter R. Moore oldmartiniansassociation.co.uk
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