Where we served India from, and where we serve it from today.
Gillanders House, Clive Street (now Netaji Subhas Road)
Waldies has been run from Calcutta since Dr David Waldie founded the company here in 1858. Our head office is at Gillanders House in the old commercial heart of the city, on the street once known as Clive Street.
Today: still our head office →‘The International’, Marine Lines Cross Road No. 1
For about three decades our Bombay office at ‘The International’ on Marine Lines Cross Road served customers across western India, and it was still busy in 1993, as the letterhead below shows. The neighbourhood, between the Art Deco sweep of Marine Drive and the old Fort, is today part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Today: our Mumbai office at Marol, Andheri East →Connaught Place
For more than half a century Waldies served north India from Connaught Place, the colonnaded Georgian circle at the centre of New Delhi, completed in the early 1930s.
Today: north India is served from our Jaipur office at Janpath, Shyamnagar →Mount Road (now Anna Salai)
Our Madras office stood on Mount Road, the city's great commercial avenue, now Anna Salai, serving customers across south India.
Correspondence and stationery from our offices across India, with transcriptions.
WALDIES LIMITEDWALDIES LIMITED · P.B. No. 11091 ‘The International’ Marine Lines Cross Road No. 1, Bombay-400 020 · Telephones: 291361, 291172, 281083 · Telegrams: Gillanders · Telex: 11-3820 GACO IN
See how Waldies began in 1858.
