Auckland Road

In Allahabad Shri Nathji and His family used to stay at the house of Sardar Harbhajan Singh, at No. 6, Auckland Road.

Auckland Road is named after, Sir Auckland Colvin (1838–1908) who was a British Empire administrator in India and Egypt, born into the illustrious Anglo-Indian Colvin family. He first cam eto Allahabad in July 1869 as a settlement officer, and did good work in the revision of the Allahabad district settlement. Later he took service as a British commissioner of the debt, in Egypt.

He was promoted and transfer on 21 November 1887 to Allahabad as Lieutenant-governor of the North-West Provinces and chief commissioner of Oudh, in succession to Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall. To his influence were due good water supplies and drainage systems in the larger towns of what are now the United Provinces, several new hospitals, and the Colvin Taluqdars' school at Lucknow.

Auckland Road is am impotent road of Allahabad in the prestigious Civil Lines area of the city. It has the Alka Puri Colony and Tapovan Garden. The Road  starts diagonally from Nyaya Marg, cut across Punnapa Road and joins Cariappa Road. 

I have marked the Aukland Road in red on this satellite image of Allahabad city. We can also see the river on the top left. 

This is a close up satellite image of the area around civil lines. Here Auckland road Which is marked in red can be seen in reference to other surrounding areas.