Located at 62/11 Ballygunge Circular Road, where Ballygunge Circular Road meets Gurusaday Dutta Road, stands the Trivia Hall, a worn-out building that once featured a grand design, and equipped with a beautiful marble entrance supported by slender cast-iron columns, and housed Bathgate & Co., the oldest chemist and pharmacist in the city of Calcutta. Unfortunately, this once-majestic structure, which quietly watched over its past glory, is now in a poor and deteriorated condition, with overgrown roots slowly but steadily spreading through its walls, giving the building an eerie and ghostly look. Today, it stands helplessly, counting its days as the property is involved in a legal dispute, resulting in its current state of abandonment.

Bathgate & Company, a pioneering pharmacist and chemist firm, is widely considered to have initiated the formal practice of pharmacy in India. Founded in 1811, by M. Bathgate, a Scottish chemist, they acted as a chemist and druggist, fulfilling prescriptions and supplying medicines, and was renowned as the first British pharmaceutical company or chemist firm in the city. Initially, they started operating from their primary store on Old Court House Street, and expanded with a prominent branch off Park Street, opposite Allen Park, by the 1870s. Later, they opened another branch near the intersection of Ballygunge Circular Road and Gurusaday Road, in the early 1900s, which was sometimes referred to as the Ballygunge Dispensary. With the progress of time, the company expanded its operations beyond merely selling medicines to manufacturing and selling a wide range of goods, which included aerated water, and toiletries such as hair oil, perfumes, and shampoos.

However, with the increase of import of foreign drugs from the western countries, specially from UK and USA, combined with the rise of local competition, the business of the Bathgate & Company started to decline steadily and significantly following the independence of India in 1947, which is often attributed to the general transfer of economic power and the subsequent exodus of British-managed firms from Calcutta during that period, leading to several companies experiencing stagnation or bankruptcy. Ultimately, the iconic retail shop of the company at Old Court House Street was effectively wound up and vanished from the scene by the 1970s, while the Ballygunge Dispensary was abandoned and was usurped by nature, including a sprawling banyan tree that ran through the entire building.

Interestingly, Mr. Pires' Private School, a private primary school founded in the 1970s or 1980s by a former St. Xavier's teacher, M W Pires, and his son, Alan, operated from the same building for some time, before it was eventually shut down, while the building, well over a hundred years old and worthy of being declared a heritage building, was left alone, fated to be ruined and perhaps demolished.