Friday, January 28, 2011

1847-BOMBAY-THE FIRST EXHIBITION OF ELECTRIC LIGHT WAS DONE BEFORE LORD AND LADY FALKLAND ;GOVERNOR OF BOMBAY ;AT THE TOWN HALL



ARC LIGHT -BEFORE ELECTRIC BULBS WERE INVENTED; 
LATER BY EDISON IN 1870
Self-regulating arc lamp proposed byWilliam Edwards Staite and William Petrie in 1847

THE TOWN HALL BOMBAY 1847


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Did you know Bombay's street lights are still carrying colonial secrets… even today?
Bombay roads were first illuminated in 1843.
But the story actually begins earlier…
In 1833, Ardeshir Cursetjee installed gas lighting at his Lalbaug residence.
It was so remarkable that even the Governor of Bombay visited to see it.
A decade later, kerosene lamps began lighting up the city’s streets.
By 1865, Bombay transitioned to gas street lighting.
Some of the first roads to glow were:
• Bhendi Bazaar
• Churchgate Street (now Veer Nariman Rd)
• Esplanade (now M.G. Rd)
It wasn’t just lighting… it was a spectacle.
Crowds would actually follow the lamp-lighter every evening as he lit each street lamp one by one.
Wealthy citizens even funded ornate lamp posts across the city.
In 1882, electric lighting made its debut near Crawford Market.
But here’s the twist…
Within a year, the company failed, and the city went back to gas lamps.
Things changed after the formation of
Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Company in 1905.
Electricity slowly began replacing gas lamps across Bombay.
By 1923, electric street lighting was being introduced at multiple locations.
Now comes the part most people miss…
Street light poles were given codes based on British-era road names.
Examples:
WB – Waudby Road (Hajarimal Somani Marg)
WHR – Wodehouse Road (Nathalal Parikh Marg)
OR – Ormiston Road (BEST Marg)
GTR – Grant Road
QR – Queens Road
RYN – Reay Road North (Barrister Nath Pai Marg)
FBS – Forbes Street
Even junctions had codes like “J”.
MUJ – Museum Junction
BBJ – Bori Bunder Junction
After Independence, many of these roads were renamed.
But the pole codes?
Most of them remained unchanged.
So next time you spot a street light number in Mumbai…
Look closely.
You might just be staring at a small, unnoticed reminder of the city’s colonial past.
MUMBAI HERITAGE

Rangarajan Krishnamurthy Krishnamurthyy
Almost XERO population.. This town enlarged only textile mill workers.. Traders in all materials from. Nearby areas.
Sarosh Bana
Very interesting. But regarding Ardeshir Cursetjee, it would be interesting to know where he sourced the gas from and how this first gas light in Bombay was designed and made.
Mukesh Mistri
After so many years it's famous as Kada Parshi

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Rt. Hon. Viscount Falkland, G.C.H.
(Lucius Bentinck Carey, 1803 - 1884)
May 1, 1848

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Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland


Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland GCH PC (5 November 1803 – 12 March 1884) was a British colonial administrator and Liberal politician.
Falkland was the son of Charles John Cary, 9th Viscount Falkland, and his wife Christiana. He succeeded as tenth Viscount Falkland in 1808 at the age of five after his father was killed in a duel.LATER 
he was appointed Governor of Bombay, in which post he remained until 1853. He returned to England the same year and later served as a magistrate in Yorkshire.
Lord Falkland married Lady Amelia FitzClarence (21 March 1807 – 2 July 1858 London), the last unmarried illegitimate daughter of King William IV and his mistress, Dorothy Jordan, on 27 December 1830 at the Royal Pavilion. The King gave away the bride and the ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Winchester; they spent their honeymoon at Cumberland Lodge.[

Lucius Bentinck Cary, 10th Viscount Falkland, by Frederick Richard Window, 1863 - NPG  - © National Portrait Gallery, London



Falkland, Amelia Fitzclarence, Lady – (1807 – 1858)
British vice-regal figure, traveller and memoirist
Lady Amelia Fitzclarence was born (March 21, 1807) the fifth and youngest illegitimate daughter of King William IV (1830 – 1837), formerly duke of Clarence, and his long-time mistress, the actress Dorothea Jordan (nee Bland). Her eldest brother was George Augustus Frederick Fitzclarence (1794 – 1842), the first Earl of Munster. Amelia was married (1830) to Lucius Bentinck Cary (1803 – 1884), tenth Viscount Falkland, and was the mother of his heir Lucius William Cary (1831 – 1877). Her son was styled master of Falkland, but he predeceased his father. He had married but died childless and the title passed to an uncle.
When her husband was appointed as governor of Bombay in India (1848 – 1853), Lady Falkland accompanied him there. She was intrigued by the life and customs of India, and made several expeditions in the Deccan region. On their return to Britain, the couple visited Egypt and Palestine. Lady Falkland left an account of these travels, which were published in two volumes as, Chow-Chow: Being Selections from a Journal kept in India, Egypt, and Syria (1857). Lady Falkland died (July 2, 1858) aged forty-one.