Horniman Circle Garden

Horniman Circle Garden wikimapia

Built in 1969 as a tribute to Mr. Benjamin Guy Horniman , The Irish editor of The Bombay Chronicle who was deported earlier for his staunch support of Sathyagraha.wikimapia.org

In its former avatar, the garden was known as the Bombay Green.

This area was called Bombay Greens till the 18th century. Intended to be a large town square, with impressive structures, in the heart of the walled city, Bombay Greens was renamed Elphinstone Circle after Lord Elphinstone,

Nowadays, the laudable works of restoration by Horniman Circle Garden Trust and Horniman Circle Association are maintaining this vestige of the former times.

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After the removal of the Fort and ramparts in the 1860s, the first important project initiated by Police Commissioner, Charles Forjett, was the restructuring of the old Bombay Green that once stretched over a large area fronting the Town Hall. phillipsimages.in

The beautiful Horniman Circle garden, now maintained by the Tata Group,

At the western end of the Green stood a freshwater well

all mercantile activities were initially moved to the area where Elphinstone College now stands,

The platform above its 30 steps once afforded a breathtaking view through the garden to Flora Fountain, Veer Nariman (Churchgate) Street, the Arabian Sea and Malabar Point.

The two statues—invaluable works of art—were shifted to the Jijamata Gardens in 1965 after political activists severely damaged them.

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Life in the Island City circles a circle. Its ‘Zero Point’—from which all distances are measured expressindia.com

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erected by bai mancoovernbai ardon 1875

Zero Point, from which all distances are measured, is identified with Horniman Circle, the centre of the original Bombay, the ‘Fort’

s the huge banyan tree standing today just outside the Horniman Garden fence under whose shade brokers traded their stocks in days gone by, when the place was called Bombay Green.

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twenty-two stock brokers under a banyan tree in 1851 to the world’s busiest stock exchange. www.businessworld.in

Beginning with doing business under a banyan tree, a group of 318 persons, formed the stock exchange in July 1875, which led to the formation of a trust in 1887 known as “Native Share and Stock Brokers Association”.

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Origin of Bombay By J. Gerson Da Cunha