The Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose Indian Botanic Garden is situated in Shibpur, Howrah near Kolkata...
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The Visitor Learning team at Kew were delighted to join up with partners Kinetika and Creative People and Places Hounslow to explore and celebrate Kew's historic and contemporary links with India...
Once a big centre for trade, this area still boasts of being a confluence of culture. Burrabazar expanded from a yarn and textile market into one of the largest wholesale markets in India...
We will look at the Huguenots and their silk weaving skills, the Irish, the Jews and the Bengali communities that have all contributed to the textile industry of the area...
The name Barrackpore may have originated from the English word barracks, as it was the site of the first cantonment of the British East India Company...
Greenwich and Woolwich has, like our Indian partner, a military history, raising the challenging issues of defence, acquisition, mutiny and independence...
Murshidabad was the capital of Bengal when the British first came to India. A bustling trade centre, this area attracted not only overseas traders but also bankers and merchants from North India...
Our banner reflects the rich cultural heritage of the area blending together the diversity of Gravesham with its people, places and traditions...
The name of this town is possibly derived from the shape of the bank of the river Ganga which is bent like a half moon (chand in bengali)...
The creation of the Barking and Dagenham scroll uncovered many rich stories, old and new...
Jorasanko Thakur Bari is where Rabindranath Tagore was born and spent most of his childhood...
Purfleet has seen regeneration from industry and agriculture to an expansion of the creative industries at the High House Production Park...
An industrial town that lies on the other side of the Hooghly is connected to Kolkata by two major bridges - the iconic Howrah Bridge and Vidyasagar Setu...
WAs the birthplace of The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it's not surprising that Dartford's Silk River journey starts with a walk from the foreshore of the Thames...
One of the oldest parts of Kolkata, Kidderpore has many legends associated with its name. Some attribute it to Khizr / Khidr being the guardian saint of the seas to the fishing communities of Bengal...
In Tilbury we have a great industrial heritage with working docks, as does our partner Kidderpore...
Batanagar was established in 1934 by Czechoslovak industrialist Tomas Bata when he built his first shoe factory in India...
East Tilbury, just like our partner Batanagar in Kolkata, was home to the BATA shoe company, set up by Czechoslovak industrialist Tomas Bata in 1932 to help alleviate unemployment during the great depression...
Claimed to be named after Krishna Chandra Ray, this town on the banks of the Jalangi river, was an important centre for culture and literature...
Southend-on-Sea is a seaside resort town that marks the point where the Thames Estuary joins the North Sea, and this year it celebrates its 125 years anniversary...
