John’s Tour of Inspection

These photographs are significant in their insignificance, as the last photos that John took before his death. What persuaded him to take three photographs of the Bankura Rest House (“My Bungalow”, by any standards a bleak, empty looking place? It almost seems that there was nothing else left to take.

Bankura Station having a small steam(?). Taken on my tour of inspection

My special coach

In John’s hand on the back: “This my bungalow at Bankura. 22 Oct 1928.”

Bungalow at Bankura. 22 Oct 1928

Another view of the bungalow

John’s handwriting on the back: “Beliator Station. My coach in the distance [as] I waited for the up train”

John’s words: “My Bearer and porters arriving with my luggage”.

Signs on left read “Bankura Junction and Bankura and Damoodar Railway”. Sign on right reads “Bankura”

In John’s hand: “DB Railway. Taken from my carriage. Oct 22 1928”. DB is assumed to be Damoodar Bankura

Kharagpur Station