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Nov 20 5 tweets 3 min read
As the railway authorities today completed, 85% work of dismantling #CarnacBridge in South Mumbai, dwelling a bit into its history. The bridge was built between 1866-67 & opened in 1868 for “Public Traffic”, according to the inscription on it.
It is an iron and masonry bridge which has been named after James Rivett Carnac, the Governor of the Bombay Presidency from the year 1839 to 1842. According to History of the Municipal Corporation of the City of Bombay by L. W. Michael (1902), the bridge was built (contd)
at the joint expense of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIPR) and the Municipal Corporation. The bridge carried the #Carnac Road over the GIP Railway, connecting Crawford Market to the Prince’s Docks along the Carnac Road.
The bridge extended the road that ran along the boundaries of Esplanade, Masjid Bunder, Pydhonie, Dongri, Dhobi Talao, Kalbadevi Market. vaguely the boundary between native and British sections of the city. All above pics for TOI by @sanjayhTOI
The bridge was constructed by Laxman Harishchandra Ajinkya, popularly referred as 'bhau'.

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As numbers of sealed buildings in #Mumbai have increased over the past few days owing to rising covid cases, the BMC chief IS Chahal in a meeting held on Monday said that sealing of buildings with over five or more positive cases should be strictly done again.
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