TIMES OF INDIA BUILDING-THROUGH THE AGES -
                 Churchgate
 Street, now known as Vir Nariman Road, in the Fort area of Bombay was 
taken in the 1860s to form part of an album entitled 'Photographs of 
India and Overland Route'. Churchgate Street runs from Horniman Circle 
at the east end to what was originally named Marine Drive at the edge of
 the Back Bay. Churchgate Station,
'Times of India'] Building, corner of Elphinstone Cir. - 1880 - Genl. 
Nassau Lees, Proprietor.-Photographer: E.O.S. and Company Medium: 
Photographic print Date: 1880-
 
2nd shop frm left is BOMBAY TIMES- Churchgate Street of the Bombay Fort. The Church Gate is seen at right end
The fortress was eventually demolished in order to create new spaces for the expansion of the city, in 1860s.
 This gate was demolished in 1860. Later the Churchgate railway station 
was built in 1870 in close proximity to the position of the demolished 
gate, and hence got its name.
The
 Times of India is the world's largest selling English-language daily 
newspaper. It is also third largest selling newspaper in any language in
 the world and the largest selling newspaper outside Japan. The Times of
 India is the most widely read English newspaper in India with a 
readership of 7.643 million.
The Times of India published its 
first edition on 3 November 1838 as The Bombay Times and Journal of 
Commerce. The paper published Wednesdays and Saturdays under the 
direction of Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, a Maharashtrian 
Reformist, and contained news from Britain and the world, as well as the
 Indian Subcontinent. In 1850, it began to publish daily editions.
More in WikipediaThe
 below photographs were taken on the occasion of the newspaper's Diamond
 Jubilee (60 years) in November 1898 (2-3 photos may be from earlier 
period but published in same album). Please click on the photos to view 
high resolution versions.
Jobbing Composing Room
Reading room
Binding room
Editor's room
General office
Press room
Machinemen, pressmen and sepoys
Bookbinders, paging and ruling men
Employees
 of the Times of India newspaper posed on the steps of Mumbai Town Hall 
on the occasion of the newspaper's Diamond Jubilee (60 years), November 
1898
News composing room
Clerks, Compositors and castors
Machine room No.3
Machine room No.2
Machine room No.1
Stereo and type casting room
General Manager's room
Ruling and paging room
Times of India Building opposite St Thomas's Cathedral, connected with Elphinstone Circle - July 1898
Times of India Building corner of Elphinstone Circle - Probably taken in c1880's
Source: British Library
 
The Times of India Building, Bombay
The
 Times of India building is opposite Victoria Terminus in the heart of 
Mumbai. The Times of India (TOI), owned by the Indian firm Bennett, 
Coleman & Co. Ltd (also called The Times Group, run by the family of
 Sahu Jain), is the oldest daily newspaper in Mumbai and one of the 
leading newspapers in India. It was founded as "The Bombay Times and 
Journal of Commerce" in 1838.
 
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