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Club Night tonight!

This is Byculla!!! Woha!

Does this building exist today?

None of those buildings exist today. But you cannot miss the Worli Village. The village seems to be frozen in time. The vantage in the picture no doubt is the paved Sea-front at Worli of today. The sea-link bridge does not afford good view of the coast line if you are sea(ted) in a fast, low car.

But it does if you going slowly in an ambassador taxi!!

In the distance, between a pair of palms, (in the picture) you see the chimney of a textile mill. That one stands tall even today (on Veer Sawarkar Road; erstwhile Cadel Road, near the Bankers' Training College of the Reserve Bank of India - a institution founded by the British). I did not know it existed in 1834! One will have to check when the mill was founded. It makes fabrics even today.

Whenever I see any photographs of Bombay, before concrete and the internal combusion engine took it over, I remember father-in-law's description of the city where he first arrived in the 1920s: "Bombay at that time was peaceful, leisurely, uncrowded and rather beautiful." Parts of it can be described still as 'rather beautiful', but I think perhaps one would struggle to apply his other words!

Marine Drive and south Bombay are still one of the most wonderful urban spaces in India !

RBSI, Marine drive thrived on reclaimed land. Please look at the picture of the Bombay University and its Rajabhoy tower under construction in your album. I don't know whse idea it was to reclaim land in such a manner and buid the Queen's necklace there! The only place which retains its pristine beauty in Bombay is the US Club at its exterem southern tip. Mind you, the US here stands for United Services, meaning thereby the armed forces of India!

old photographs of old cities, or old landscapes remind me our mischievous behavior with nature. What we were and what we are. our coming generations will certainly miss a lot.

@Philippa & RBSI, some of the old houses in 'Bombay' can still be found at Carmicheal Road with lovely old trees . It is a delight to pass through this road.

pls clarify this- the Byculla club was on the Worli Sea Face? Cant visualise the sea in current day Byculla

Byculla area was the flat ground expanding upto Clare Road, Mahalaxmi , Racecource and the sea beyond . It was a swampy land. I doubt the picture above is of Worli.

The Byculla Club was the most sought after club . The daily fare was prawn curry and ' Byculla' souffle, circa 1877. I don't think that the building still stands.

In 1900 mills blocked the club's view. By 1905 club was surrounded by cotton-mill chimneys and tenements. During WW I it was converted into military hospital and thereafter sold for redevelopment.