Lamp posts: Apollo Bunder
Towering lamposts in disarray at the harbour.
Left to Lie
19 March, 2013
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Dented and Painted
19 March, 2013
Fountain: The Arthur Crawford Municipal Market
1868. Junction of Hornby Road and Carnac Road (presently Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai, M. Khana Road).
The sorry state of a stone fountain designed by Lockwood Kipling at The Arthur Crawford Municipal Market.
The Remains of the Day
19 March, 2013
The Esplanade Hotel (1871)
Esplanade Road, Fort, (presently Esplanade Mansion, Mahatma Gandhi Road).
The current condition of the interiors and exteriors of The Esplanade Hotel is shameful. The Esplanade was India’s first grand hotel and the oldest surviving building with a cast iron framework.
Façade: The Red Building
19 March, 2013
The Red Building
Parsi Bazaar Street, Elphinstone Circle, Fort, (presently S. A. Brelvi Marg, Horniman Circle)
The Red Building houses the offices of The Bombay Samachar (1822), Asia’s oldest newspaper. Formerly the premises were also used by the Bombay Chronicle (1913-1949); after whose editors, Benjamin Guy Horniman and Syed Abdullah Brelvi, the Circle and Street, have been renamed.
Signage: The Arthur Crawford Municipal Market (1868)
19 March, 2013
The Arthur Crawford Municipal Market (1868)
(presently called Mahatma Jyotiba Phule Mandai), Junction of Hornby Road and Carnac Road (presently M. Khana Road).
Arthur Travers Crawford (1835-1911) had a sociable and controversial tenure as a civil servant in various parts of Western India, including as the first Municipal Commissioner of Bombay.
Notice the monogram ‘ATC’ on the clock tower.