In the background can be seen the building in which 120 men, women and children were massacred as a result of the Indian Mutiny. Their bodies were hacked to pieces and then thrown down the well (in the foreground) to hide the atrocities.

Following the Massacre in 1857, the well at Cawnpore became a makeshift memorial to the victims (Postcard)

Memorial Well, Cawnpore (Postcard)

The Marble Statue in the centre of the Cawnpore Memorial (Postcard)

The Marble Statue in the centre of the Cawnpore Memorial (c.1860)

Cawnpore Memorial Gardens (Postcard)

Site of the Cawnpore Massacre (Postcard)