The Cooperage Bandstand British Era Bombay – 2 Postcards 1900s
Two 1900s postcards showing the Cooperage Bandstand in British Era Bombay. The pictures show the Cooperage Bandstand in the foreground with the residential apartments in the background. Built over 150 years ago, it is situated at Cooperage Road, the Bandstand is a canopied wooden structure with a solid stone base.
Octagonal in design, it is open-air and was used for hosting music and cultural activities. Musical bands playing in open public spaces began from here in South Bombay. Bandstands became popular in other areas of Bombay too during the British Era. However, the Cooperage Bandstand’s music stopped, for some reason, in the 1970s. The Bandstand went into neglect and decay. The Maharashtra Government decided to revive the Bandstand by restoration work in 2017, now it is in its original glory.
Read more Cooperage bandstand to soon get its beat back.
Did you know – that people would throng here, particularly on weekends, listening to various bands of which the most popular and admired would be that of the Navy.
Past posts – M. Suriyamoorthy Charcoal Art Abstract 1964 (#1)., A Glimpse of Life In British India Era, 1865 Photo., Making Of The Mullaperiyar Dam, 1895 Print., Dutch Captured Fort Cochin & City, Antique Map 1663.
