New Market, Kolkata, India
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New Market is in Kolkata on Lindsay Street.
In 1871 under pressure from English residents the Calcutta Corporation decided to build a market for Calcutta's British residents and bought Lindsay Street. It appointed Richard Roskell Bayne, an architect of the East Indian Railway Company, to design the Victorian Gothic market. Mackintosh Burn was the builder.
It opened on 1 January 1874. Sir Stuart Hogg, Chairman of Calcutta Corporation, supported plans to build the market and in1903 it was officially called Sir Stuart Hogg Market, later shortened to Hogg Market. But its early provisional nickname, New Market stayed in use.
It was enlarged and a clock tower was shipped over from Huddersfield and installed in the 1930s. Over 2000 stalls sell everything. Vegetable stalls, fishmongers and slaughterhouse butchers are at the very back of the market.
It has survived two devastating fires and regular flooding.
In 1871 under pressure from English residents the Calcutta Corporation decided to build a market for Calcutta's British residents and bought Lindsay Street. It appointed Richard Roskell Bayne, an architect of the East Indian Railway Company, to design the Victorian Gothic market. Mackintosh Burn was the builder.
It opened on 1 January 1874. Sir Stuart Hogg, Chairman of Calcutta Corporation, supported plans to build the market and in1903 it was officially called Sir Stuart Hogg Market, later shortened to Hogg Market. But its early provisional nickname, New Market stayed in use.
It was enlarged and a clock tower was shipped over from Huddersfield and installed in the 1930s. Over 2000 stalls sell everything. Vegetable stalls, fishmongers and slaughterhouse butchers are at the very back of the market.
It has survived two devastating fires and regular flooding.