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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

MyWorld

Darabshaw House in Ballard Estate.
If anybody has any history about this building please mention in the comments.

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Monday, April 4, 2011

Built at the major road junction in Ballard Estate, this war memorial commemorates two British and one Italian employees of the Bombay Port Trust who fell during the Great War (1914-1918) as well as the contribution made by the Port Trust in the British war effort.

A brass plaque reads:-

"In the Port of Bombay in the Great War 1914-1918
1,870,000 troops and personnel embarked and disembarked at the docks
3,046 transports and 668 hospital ships were dealt with at the docks. The first transport left Bombay on 21 August 1914.
2,073 troop and hospital trains were railed over the Port Trust Railway.
2,228,000 tons of military stores were shipped from the port.
494 Government ships used the Port Trust dry docks."

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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Camera critters

A balcony exclusively for birds in Ballard Estate.

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Saturday, April 2, 2011

Saturday Photohunt - Closed

The Ballard Bunder Gate was once the formal entrance to the Ballard Pier railway station, from which the romantic Frontier Mail chugged out for its long trek to Peshawar. The gatehouse has now been developed into a museum, and it is a treasure trove of photographs about Bombay, it’s port, it’s people, and it’s railways, and the port railways! But it was closed as I was there too early and on a weekend.

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