Elphinstone Circle, now known as Horniman Circle, is a historical landmark located in Bombay (Mumbai).

Town Hall Bombay & Cotton Green - before Elphinstone Circle was built. 1855 - 1862

TOWN HALL BOMBAY 1800'S -FORT WALL AND HARBOUR WITH SHIP MASTS CAN BE SEEN THE OPEN GROUND IN FRONT OF TOWN HALL WAS KNOWN AS BOMBAY GREENS WHERE OPEN AIR HAGGLING FOR COTTON BUNDLES AND OTHER EXPORT ITEMS TOOK PLACE .

BELOW ANOTHER VIEW OF BOMBAY GREEN TAKEN FROM TOWN HALL

EAST INDIA COMPANY SOLDIER'S MARCH PAST WITH 2 BOY DRUMMERS IN THE REAR SEEN IN MID GROUND ,COTTON BUNDLES READY FOR EXPORT WITH LOADERS SITTING ON TOP OF IT CAN BE SEEN,ENGLISH OFFICER BEING CARRIED ON A PULKHI WITH TWO SOLDIERS WITH DRAWN SWORDS IN FRONT NEXT TO THE COTTON BUNDLES ,ST THOMAS CATHEDRAL IN THE FAR BACK GROUND,A CHARIOT PRECEDED BY A MUSIC BAND IN THE BACK GROUND,
TWO MERCHANTS IN FLOWING ROBES ON EXTREME RIGHT NEXT TO
TWO ENGLISH GENTRY POSSIBLY HAGGLING OVER MERCHANDISE-1780

BOMBAY GREEN 1830,ST THOMAS CATHEDRAL CHURCH IN BACK l showing the Cornwallis monument

BOMBAY GREEN PHOTO 1850l showing the Cornwallis monument

BOMBAY GREEN SHOWING COTTON BUNDLES FOR EXPORT,WORKERS WEIGHING BUNDLES ON A TRIPOD SHAPED WEIGHT MACHINE,MERCHANTS IN FLOWING ROBES AND CAPS,HAMALS/LOADERS-MEN IN SCANTY CLOTHS WOMEN IN SARIS GOSSIPING? -LIFE WENT ON THEN AS IT IS NOW

BOMBAY TOWN HALL PHOTO 1850'S WITH BOMBAY GREEN GROUND AS SEEN FROM THE TOP OF THE ST THOMAS CATHEDRAL,SAILING SHIPS IN HARBOUR IN THE BACK GROUND

COTTON MARKET BOMBAY NEXT TO BOMBAY HARBOUR 1860,SHIPS WITH MASTS CAN BE SEEN

THE FIRST STAR HOTEL OF INDIA -WATSON HOTEL-CAN BE SEEN IN THE FOREGROUND AS MULTI STORY BUILDING WITH OPEN VERANDAHS-1890[BEFORE TATA WAS CHUCKED OUT OF THE HOTEL AS A DARK SKIN INDIAN,BEFORE TATA MADE TAJ MAHAL HOTEL IN RETALIATION]

TOWN HALL BEFORE DISCOVERY OF CAR/AUTOMOBILES-1880'S

The Town Hall and part of Elphinstone Circle Gardens[BOMBAY GREENS]The garden was planned in 1869 and completed in 1872 with well laid out walkways and trees planted all around.

This photograph was taken by Samuel Bourne in the 1860s. Elphinstone Circle was constructed from about 1860 onwards on the site of Bombay Green in the centre of the Fort area. It lies at the eastern end of Vir Nariman Road, formerly known as Church Gate Street. The elegantly curved, arcaded terraces exhibit unified Italian facades enriched with cast-ironwork imported from England. Following Independence the area was renamed after Benjamin Horniman, an English journalist who was an ardent proponent of Indian self-determination.

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Elphinstone Circle Gardens[BOMBAY GREENS]

HARBOUR BOMBAY-NEAR TO Elphinstone Circle Gardens[BOMBAY GREENS]

BOMBAY GREEN CONVERTED INTO A GARDEN -NOW KNOWN AS HORNIMAN CIRCLE GARDEN

Times of India Buildings, corner of Elphinstone Circle (now Horniman Circle), ca. 1880

Horniman Circle Gardens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Horniman Circle Gardens is a large park in South Mumbai, India, which encompasses an area of 12,081 square yards (10,101 m2).

Benjamin Horniman, the younger brother of Roy was also an author and journalist.

His output was of a more serious minded nature than that of his elder brother. Similarly he was active in the campaigns to change the position of India in the empire and was also an ardent anti-vivisectionist. However he had no acting or other theatrical aspirations and after a spell at the Indian Statesman was appointed in 1913 as founding editor of the Bombay Chronicle. Here his radical views made him enemies in the colonial government and in 1919 he was banished from India. He is still remembered in India as a passionate supporter of Indian Independence.

Benjamin Horniman 1920

B. G. Horniman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Benjamin Guy Horniman (1873 – 1948) was a British journalist and editor of the ... 1906 to join the Statesman in Calcutta as its news editor, he had worked with several ... In 1913, he became editor of the Bombay Chronicle, a daily founded by ...

Horniman Circle Gardens

The Horniman Circle Gardens is a large park in South Mumbai, India, which encompasses an area of 12,081 square yards. It is situated in the Fort district of Mumbai, and is surrounded by office complexes housing the country's premier banks. Wikipedia

Address: Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra