Mumbai Heritage

02/08/2026

02/08/2026

When owning a car in Bombay meant paying a ‘Tax on Vehicles and Animals’.

From my personal collection, this original Bombay Municipal Corporation receipt, dated 20 January 1929, records ₹25 paid as tax on Motor Car No. BY 4054.

02/08/2026

Happy Friendship Day!

01/08/2026

Today in 1953, all pvt Airlines of India (total 9) were nationalised. This brought forth two nationalized Air Corporation, viz Indian airlines Corporation & the Air India International.
A special cover of the occasion

01/08/2026

First MIDC

01/08/2026

August 1939- Crowd in front of a liquor store a few minutes before the beginning of the prohibition, in Mumbai.
(Photo by KEYSTONE-FRANCE / Gamma-Rapho)

01/08/2026

1920: Today is 106th death anniversary. He breathed his last in Mumbai

Thousands of people gathered in Mumbai for his funeral procession . It started from Sardar Gruha & passed from Abdul Rehman Rd, Jumma Masjid, Bhuleshwar, Girgaon Bank Rd, Sandhurst road to Girgaon Chowpatty.
He was cremated in the sitting legs crossed position

01/08/2026

Today in 1939, Prohibition was introduced in Mumbai. Some of the posters shown here. The city then had 850 bars & liquor shops

Mumbai was declared a dry State on 6 Apr, 1950 by passing of the Bombay Prohibition Act, 1949. Prohibition was lifted in 1970s and ‘Permit Rooms’ came in

01/08/2026

On This Day| 1 August 1905
End of an Era: Farewell to Horse-Drawn Trams in Mumbai

120 years ago, Mumbai bid goodbye to its iconic horse-drawn tram cars.
This service had started on 9 May 1874, with the first route running from Colaba to Pydhonie via Crawford Market.
Fares were just 3 annas.