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Photograph of a walk in Barrackpore Park was taken in the 1860s by Samuel Bourne. Barrackpore, north of Calcutta along the Hoogly river, was founded in 1775 as a cantonment. Government House, designed by Captain Thomas Anbury in 1813 was used as a residence for the British Governors-General.