Friday, April 11, 2014

HISTORY OF PRINCE OF WALES MUSEUM Bombay/mumbai


Prince of Wales Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is the main museum in Mumbai, formerly Bombay.



  • Prince of Wales Museum



  • The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, formerly Prince of Wales Museum of Western India, is the main museum in Mumbai, formerly Bombay. Wikipedia







  • Address: 159-161, Mahatma Gandhi Rd, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai, Maharashtra 400023



  • Hours:
    Open today · 10:15 am – 6:00 pm



  • Phone: 022 2284 4519

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    The museum building was completed in 1915, but was used as a Children's Welfare Centre and a Military Hospital during the First World War, before being handed over to the committee in 1920. The Prince of Wales Museum was inaugurated on January 10, 1922, by Lady Lloyd, the wife of George Lloyd, Governor of Bombay






    Lady Hardinge Red Cross Hospital Bombay.1915
    Crown, but it is one which is unusually iraught with danger and arduous duties. Ihe position, however, offers golden opportunities for helping forward the movements for the education and uplifting of the women and girls of India. Happily, the days are
    LORD AND LADY HARDINGE  

    British women have played an important part in the history of our Government in India.
     The wives of the Governors-general and Viceroys of India have, like those of lesser degree, faced danger and hardships, and have discharged the duties of their position with courage and a high sense of duty-some, indeed, have given their lives for India.

      lady of quality late Coronation festivities made special demands upon the Viceregal Court.
    To be the Vicereine of India is at once the most regal, brilliant, and picturesque position held by any woman under the past when the wife of India's ruler dare not give shelter to the child-wife pleading to escape from death on her husband's funeral pyre. Suttee has been abolished and great advances made in the position of our sisters in India. The manner in which successive Vicereines have striven to further reforms is illustrated by the Countess of Dufferin Fund, the Victoria Memorial Scholarship Fund, founded by the late Lady Curzon for the training of native midwives, and the
    Lady Minto Nursing Association. Lady Hardinge of Penshurst, who succeeds Lady Minto as Vicereine, in formulating a scheme for promoting the training of native women as doctors.

    Native bullock wagons making for Victoria Dock, Bombay.

    This view was taken from the Bombay Post Office steps.  Notice the swarms of pigeons, the natives feed & worship them.


    Municipal offices, Bombay.1915[can see the kerosene street light on the road]

    Bombay

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    Lady Hardings war hospital, Bombay, India 1915

    was originally the Lady Hardinge Hospital, built in 1915 as a general hospital for the Lahore and Meerut Indian divisions. It was constructed in the shape of a capital E, like the large country houses of the Elizabethan period. The perpendicular line contained the headquarters and administrative quarters; the two horizontal lines were corridors, each with its series of wards and side rooms. The small central horizontal line was a corridor leading to an operating theatre and to a large double cookhouse, as the sick and wounded Indian troops belonged to two religions, Hindu and Moslem, each requiring different diets...."



    The museum building was completed in 1915, but was used as a Children's Welfare Centre and a Military Hospital during the First World War, before being handed over to the committee in 1920. The Prince of Wales Museum was inaugurated on January 10, 1922, by Lady Lloyd, the wife of George Lloyd, Governor of Bombay.
    The Right Honourable
    The Lord Lloyd
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    Governor of Bombay
    In office
    16 December 1918 – 8 December 1923
    Monarch George V
    Preceded by Marquess of Willingdon
    Succeeded by Sir Leslie Orme Wilson
    High Commissioner in Egypt
    In office
    1925–1929
    Monarch George V
    Preceded by The Viscount Allenby
    Succeeded by Sir Percy Loraine, Bt
    Secretary of State for the Colonies
    In office
    12 May 1940 – 4 February 1941
    Monarch George VI
    Prime Minister Winston Churchill
    Preceded by Malcolm MacDonald
    Succeeded by The Lord Moyne
    Leader of the House of Lords
    In office
    December 1940 – 4 February 1941
    Monarch George VI
    Prime Minister Winston Churchill
    Preceded by The Viscount Halifax
    Succeeded by The Lord Moyne
    Personal details
    Born 19 September 1879
    Olton Hall[1]
    Died 4 February 1941 (aged 61)
    Nationality British
    Political party Conservative
    Spouse(s) Hon. Blanche Lascelles
    (1880–1969)
    Alma mater Trinity College, Cambridge
    The foundation stone was laid by the Prince of Wales on the 11 November 1905 and the museum was formally named "Prince of Wales Museum of Western India".[2] On 1 March 1907, the government of the Bombay Presidency granted the museum committee a piece of land called the "Crescent Site", where the museum now stands. Following an open design competition, in 1909 the architect George Wittet was commissioned to design the Museum building

    George Wittet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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    George Wittet (1878-1926) was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in Bombay (now Mumbai), India. Life[edit]. George Wittet was born in Blair Atholl, .
  • George Wittet
    Architect
  • George Wittet was a Scottish architect who worked mostly in Bombay, India. Wikipedia

  • Died: 1926