Dhakuria Bridge in the Evening

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Black Hole Memorial
The 1902 Black Hole Memorial to the 123 people who died in the Black hole prison of old Fort William. This can be found in the grounds of St Johns Church

"Black Hole of Calcutta" Memorial
Memorial to those who died in the "Black Hole" - erected by Curzon.
Located in St. John's churchyard.

Black Hole Memorial
This monument to the Black Hole of Calcutta was moved from its original site at Dalhousie Square to this graveyard at St.John's Church.

Black Hole Memorial
It says in the Eyewitness Travel Guide: India, that the Black Hole of Calcutta was "an event which became one of the favourite horror stories of the Raj. When Siraj-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Bengal, captured the old British fort which stood on the site of the present General Post Office in 1756, he imprisoned over 100 British inhabitants in a small, airless cell. ONly 23 people were found alive the next morning - the rest had died of asphyxiation and thirst."

I think it's in Krishna Dutta's excellent history "Calcutta: A Cultural and Literary History" that this story is shown to be an urban legend. From records by the actual survivors, they talked about being able to see and move about. Anyway, I'll have to get back to you on this.

Memorial to the victims of "The Black Hole of Calcutta", a favorite British Raj horror story of Indian cruelty

Memorial to those who died in the siege of Calcutta in 1756 and to those who died in what was called "the black hole of Calcutta"

Monument to the Black Hole tragedy
The memorial is to the Black Hole incident which occured on June 20, 1756 in Fort William. After the Nawab of Bengal, Siraj ud-Daulah, stormed Calcutta, the British prisoners were held in a cramped small dungeon in the fort where most of them died due to suffocation,heat exhaustion and crushing.