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  1. Appreciate your efforts to research and write on the Port’s Moyapur Magazine. But I do not understand why you sounded so helpless in getting through to the Port Authority. You could have taken the contact details from the personnel you met at the Semphore. The Port has a Maritime Archives and Research Centre on one its early 20th century warehouses on Strand Road and it has been well publicised as well , particularly after the Port commenced the first ever Heritage Tours in Kolkata. We are also on FB and Twitter ( Kolkata Port Heritage Initiative) . A keyword search on the internet could have easily led you to informed reports and at least one good blog entry on the Moyapur Magazine as well . Yes it is true that the place had fallen into disuse and partial encroachment , but the Port Management has recently resurveyed and set up the signposts you’ve seen at the place. A tourism plan is afoot , but the pandemic may offset all priorities.
    But thank you again for consulting and quoting sources that would be helpful for us in the long run.

    Kolkata Port Heritage Initiative
    [email protected]

    1. Dear Sir,

      Thank you very much and trust me I will keep visiting the Maritime Archive from now since I am now connected with you.

      During the time when I was writing this blog I did not have any archive access. I have lots of pending projects and now I shall be able to complete them with your help.

      I really wanted to join the Heritage Tour initiated by Kolkata Port Trust but I guess only very selected few were invited.

      Hopefully a lot blogs will get published now with all the access. Thanks a lot.

  2. Very well written with extreme details. The pictures are amazing and every house or whatever remains of this place has been captured. I came to know about this place after attending Rangan Datta dada’s virtual tour a few days back.

    1. Thanks for your comments. This is the Moyapur (Mayapur) Barood Ghar and not the Achipur which many others keep saying, The Achipur Magazine was used only for few years before shifting to this current bigger facility.

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