Attention Bombay-ites!

Vintage Photographs of Bombay

First set dated between 1850 and 1870
Second set of photos in the early 1900s.

Here are a few more shots of Old Bombay taken in the early 1900s. To read the article "Once Upon A Time in Bombay" that accompanies these photographs,
click on http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/06/24/once_upon_a_time_in_bombay?page=full

What used to be Hornby Vellard - now Dadabhai Nowroji Road?.
A party in Bombay's Taj Mahal Hotel circa 1910	Rugby match on the Oval
	Hard to imagine the street in front of Victoria Terminus with no traffic other than a bullock cart! This is circa 1910
Above, Henry Staveley Lawrence, acting governor of Bombay from 1926 to 1928, and his wife Phyllis do some swashbuckling with an amateur theater company in a photo taken circa 1910.	Cars compete with horse-drawn carriages in a Bombay intersection in 1929.