Landing Jetty For Passengers At Apollo Bunder Bombay, 1880 Print

An 1880 print of the landing jetty for passengers at Apollo Bunder in Bombay (Mumbai). The engraving shows a multitude of people and horsecarts waiting for a ship to arrive. Steamer ships, arriving from overseas were anchored off the outer sea, the passengers would then be ferried to this Apollo Bunder Landing Jetty. Apollo Bunder or Wellington Pier was also where the Gateway of India would come up in 1924…

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After the customs formalities was over, the passengers would board the waiting horsecarts. Since automobiles would appear only by the 1900s. The Bunder was later renamed Wellington Pier. The jetty was reclaimed from a marshy area in the 1830s and was said to be “a foul and hideous place”. Subsequently by 1915, Bombay Port began accommodating passenger ships after it expanded its harbour for docking of passenger ships. The use of the Wellington Pier as a landing jetty was altogether discontinued.