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A group of photographs
taken by me in Kurseong in October and November, 2001
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Kurseong Railway Station.
It now has a room converted into a museum dedicated to the DHR. The display
includes a "doohly" supposedly used by the Queen of the Belgium's
in the early 1900s or late 1890s. |
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On weekends this
mobile Police Traffic Island is moved from close to the railway station
to the middle of the road. Girl Guides and Boy Scouts "man" the
cubicle and control all the road traffic. |
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Eagle Crag. This
has now been made into a monument to the Gurkha and other soldiers killed
in the war with China. It also holds the TV and Radio Towers. There is a tourist
look-out tower. The whole area is very popular. And has great views down
to the plains, weather permitting. The airport at Bagdogra is also clearly
visible, down on the plains. |
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The road down into
Kurseong. Just down on the left, all vehicles have to take the road to the
left as the road straight on has been made one way, coming up. |
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The Plaza Cinema.
My wife, Helma standing in front. While we were there it was rumoured that
it had been forfeited because of unpaid back-taxes. But it opened before
we left. There was also a pop dance held there one evening. |
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Taken from
the Tourist Lodge. Students by the hundreds, every school day, walk
up past the Lodge, on their way to the many schools that have sprung
up in Kurseong.
The students are all
dressed immaculately, and are a credit to their schools. |
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The
photos from here on down were all taken on our way from Kurseog down to Bagdogra.
I had insisted that I didn't want to go down via the Pankabari Road,
just so that we could travel alongside the railway track.
This shot is of Kurseong
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Kurseong
again.... |
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These
shots were taken when we got to Pagla Jhora.
This one is looking
down into the valley below.
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Views
from Pagla Jhora. |
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Pagla
Jhora taken from the moving taxi. |
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Pagla
Jhora, looking up. |
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View
from Pagla Jhora, looking down. Note the railway track sleepers at my feet |
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Views
from Pagla Jhora, looking down. |
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Views
from Pagla Jhora, looking down. Note the man walking alng between the tracks. |
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Another view of the
area around Pagla Jhora. |
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The entrance to Sinclair's
Hotel in Siliguri.
A very nice hotel,
the best that we had seen in the District.
The photo is blurred
because the taxi was moving at the time. |
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Sinclair's |
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