Kanpur Memorial Church

The marble Gathic screen with famous 'mournful seraph' was transferred to the churchyard of All Souls Church after independence in 1947, and in its place a bust of Tantiya Tope installed and the Garden renamed as Nana Rao Park'. After 1857, the development of Kanpur was even more phenomenal. Government Harness and Saddlery Factory was started for supplying leather material for the army in 1860, followed by Cooper Allen & Co.in 1880. The first cotton textile mill, the Elgin Mills were started in 1862 and Muir Mills in 1882.

Today besides being the most industrialist region of the state, Kanpur is also an important educational centre, with institutions like Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Agricultural College, National Sugar Institute & Govt. Textile Institute being located here.



Apart from playing a stellar role in the development of the country as a whole, Kanpur has also been instrumental in making an unforgettable contribution to the Indian freedom struggle. A favorite centre of activities of stalwarts like Nanarao Peshwa, Tantiya Tope, Sardar Bhagat Signh and Chandrashekhar Azad among others, Kanpur is also the birth place of Shyamlal Gupta 'Parshad', composer of the famous patriotic ditty 'Vijayee Great Hindi leterateurs like Acharya Mahavir Parasad Dwivedi, Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Pratap Narain Mishra, Acharya Gaya Prasad Shukla 'Sanehi' and Balkrishna Sharma 'Navin' having hailed from here.