Standing tall

A building in Parel from the black and white era when Mumbai was called Bombay!

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Mumbai when Bombay

The architecture character of Mumbai when it was Bombay.

Monochrome mania

Girgaon in transition from Bombay to Mumbai.

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When Mumbai was Bombay

This is how buildings were decades back when Mumbai was Bombay.

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Redevelopment in Girgaon

The old giving way to the new in Girgaon. From Bombay to Mumbai.

Cannons as bollards

These are Cannons inverted and buried to act as bollards or markers between Zaoba wadi and  Navi wadi in Girgaon. But the local story is that they symbolise the end of strife and beginning of peace.

Spiral staircase

In the olden days domestic help were supposed to use this staircase and enter homes through the back door. This is one of the surviving relics of that period in Chira Bazaar, Girgaon.

Historic Girgaon.

The Students' Literary and Scientific Society's Girls' High School also called Kamalabai Brahmankar Shala, after its popular principal,  opened in 1848. It was the 1st high school in Bombay for girls. In 1884 the school moved to the present premises. This shows that education for girls was of great importance and was encouraged in Maharashtra in those days.
Information gleaned from Siddhartha of Awestrich

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Monochrome mania

Architecture of good ole' Bombay at KalaGhoda!

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Thursday challenge - Old

 

One of the Old professions in Mumbai - Writing letters, filling up money order forms and other sundry writing needs of the illiterate migrants who came to Bombay to make a living. Now with technological advances the number of 'writers' has dwindled to a very few. They were and are mostly found outside the General Post Office.

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Skywatch friday

 

The Rajabai Tower in the Fort campus of Bombay University, against a clear grey sky. This tower was designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott who modeled it on the Big Ben of London. It was built between 1869 and 1878. The entire cost was borne by Premchand Roychand and named after his mother Rajabai who was blind and the bell chimes of this tower helped her know the time for dinner which she had to have before sunset as per her religious belief.

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