Wednesday 15 August 2018
1910 and now BOMBAYROAD MALABAR HILL TO WORLI
1910 and now BOMBAYROAD MALABAR HILL TO WORLI
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The Hornby Vellard
Early efforts at land reclamation concentrated on the small creeks crossing the northern Flats of Bombay island. Several of these were dammed or filled in during the eighteenth century. As a result, the areas north and east of Umarkhadi and Mazagaonwere slowly settled in this period. However, the next major reclamation was due to the closure of the Great Breach north of Cumballa Hill in 1784 by the building of a sea-wall called the Hornby Vellard..
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