‘A Battery facing the Cawnpore Road in the Baillie Guard and called the Cawnpore Battery’,...

‘A Battery facing the Cawnpore Road in the Baillie Guard and called the Cawnpore Battery’, 1858 circa. Lithograph by R M Bryson from ‘General Views and Special Points of Interest of the City of Lucknow’, a series of 27 coloured lithographs by R M Bryson, E Walker, F Jones after Lieutenant-Colonel D S Dodgson, published by Day and Son, 1 September 1860. The Lucknow Residency compound was entered through an archway with a guardhouse, the Bailee Guard Gate, seen here. It was named after a former resident, who had built it in the early 19th century. During the Siege of Lucknow it was the site of a British artillery battery.