Art Treasures of Kinloch Castle

INDIA - BOMBAY

GEORGE BULLOUGH – WORLD TOUR 1892-1895 * Article 8 of 28

Written from first-hand research and illustrated by George W. Randall, Co-founder and former Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends' Association.

Time of visit December 1892 / January 1893

Twenty-two year old George Bullough (right) and his travelling companion,

Robert Mitchell, departed Gokak on Friday 2^nd December 1892 by rail for

Bombay via Poona arriving at 11am the following day at the magnificent

Great India Peninsular Railway Victoria Terminus,

built in the Gothic style and completed
only four years earlier at a
cost of £300,000, over £36 million
today according to the
Office of National Statistics.

THE VICTORIA TERMINUS (G. I. P. R.), BOMBAY.
From Album V * Image 3 * Edited from full size 9½ x 7½ inches.

(George W. Randall Archive)

The station was named Victoria Terminus on the occasion of Queen Victoria's Jubilee in 1887,
it was re-named Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus in 1996 after the seventeenth century
Indian warrior king an early founder of the Maratha Empire.
Designed by Frederick William Stevens of the Indian Public Works Department the building incorporates many fine Indian carvings and decorative features.

The station was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2004.

(George W. Randall Archive)

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They visit the “excellent clubs”, (George Bullough later becoming a member of the

Royal Bombay Yacht Club), the Natural History Museum, native shops and viewed
the Zoroastrian Towers of Silence, the final resting place of those of the
Parsee religion whose precepts are

“Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds.”

On the 13^th December they left Bombay by train via Ahmedabad to Viramgam,

Wadhwam and Raumpur, in the state of Gujarat

“for some of the best small game shooting in India.”

Here they spent Christmas and welcomed-in 1893 as guests of

Mr. A. Whittle of the engineering company, Messrs. Greaves, Cotton.

On Wednesday, 4^th January 1893 our travellers departed on the overnight train to Jeypoor,

known as the Pink City, an ancient metropolis of high strategic and historical importance.

Twenty photograph albums in the library at Kinloch Castle, Isle of Rum, Scotland,

record these and all the places they visited one hundred and twenty-five years ago.

It was a world at the height of the Victorian Era, a world now beyond living memory,
a very different world, yet a world the ramifications of which profoundly affect
and influence life today in the twenty-first century.

Albums I & II: Ceylon/India * Albums III to V: India
Album VI: India/Burmah * Album VII: Australia
Album VIII: Cape Town * Album IX: South Africa
Album X: South Africa/Madeira/Hobart
Album XI: Tasmania/New Zealand
Album XII: New Zealand * Album XIII: Natives Africa/New Zealand
Album XIV: Japan * Album XV: Numea/Batavia/Singapore
Album XVI: China * Album XVII: China/Japan
Album XVIII: New Zealand/New Caledonia
Album XIX: Honolulu/California * Album XX: Salt Lake City.

The twenty albums each measure
14½ x 10¼ inches and contain
almost seven hundred images.
Those of Japan are hand-coloured,
the rest black and white.
Some were taken at the time,
most were purchased.

After three years of travelling the world they returned to Bullough’s home town,

Accrington, England in late 1895.

Described by Mr. Mitchell, their experiences were reported in the local newspaper,

The Accrington Division Gazette commencing with an

Introductory Article in May 1896, and twenty seven subsequent articles, the last,

Pretoria, Johannesburg, the Discovery of Diamond City,

was published on the 12^th of December 1896.

Numbered notes relating to the text, included at the end of each chapter,

are intended to give historical background and understanding to the

120 year old text and hopefully encourage further reading and research.

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VIEW OF PART OF BOMBAY FROM THE SEA
From Album V * Image 4 * Size 9½ x 7½ inches.
(George W. Randall Archive)

Bombay originally comprised seven islands. In 1782 the Governor, William Hornby,

proposed uniting the seven islands as part of the land mass of India by preventing the low

lying areas being inundated at high tide. Known as the Hornby Vellard Engineering Project

the first stage, damming Worli Creek, was completed in 1784 followed by reclamation
work to create what today is India’s commercial capital covering an area

of 233 square miles with a population of over twenty-one million,
the fourth most populated city on earth.

Bombay was renamed Mumbai on 6 March 1996.

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THE MUNICIPAL OFFICES BOMBAY
From Album V * Image 4 * Size 9½ x 7½ inches
(George W. Randall Archive)

Construction commenced in December 1884 to a Gothic design by architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens, born in Bath, England in 1847 and was completed in 1893. Stevens was also responsible for the the nearby Great India Peninsular Victoria Terminus completed in 1888.
The building is noted for its 255 foot high tower and central dome almost 235 feet high.

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THE YACHT CLUB, BOMBAY.
From Album V * Image 1 * Edited from full size 9½ x 7½ inches.
(George W. Randall Archive)

Founded in 1846 club was granted the title Royal Bombay Yacht Club in 1876 by Queen Victoria on the recommendation of Sir Philip Wodehouse, Governor of Bombay, 1872-1877.
The seafront clubhouse was built in 1881 and replaced in 1896.

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KALBADEVIE ROAD BOMBAY
From Album V * Image 7 * Size 9½ x 7½ inches.
(George W. Randall Archive)

The road is located in the Kalbadevi neighbourhood of Bombay so named after the Hindu Goddess Kalbadevi. Small businesses line the street dealing in almost anything and everything.

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CRAWFORD MARKET (BOMBAY)
From Album V * Image 10 * Edited from full size 9½ x 7½ inches.

(George W. Randall Archive)

Completed in 1869 to a design by British architect, Sir William Emerson (1843-1924)

and named after the first Municipal Commissioner of Bombay, Arthur Crawford (1835-1911),

the wholesale market traded in fruit, vegetables and poultry until 1996 when it was relocated.

Built using red-stone and coarse buff Kurla stone the exterior is a blend of Norman

and Flemish styles and covers an area of almost 60,000 square feet.

Today shoppers can buy clothes, toys, jewelry, electrical items as well as fruit and vegetables.

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MATHERAN, GHANTS MOUNTAINS
From Album II * Image 16 * Edited from full size 12 x 7½ inches.
(George W. Randall Archive)

Matheran, in the western ghats, is 110 miles from Bombay, the name means
“jungle topped” or “wooded head”. In the days of the Raj (British sovereignty in India)

British troops exploring the country discovered the incidence of disease
was much lower in the cooler hills giving rise to the building of
many Hill Stations as sanatorium and places to escape the heat of summer.
Between 1901 and 1907 a narrow-gauge rail line was constructed
from Neral to Matheran, a distance of thirteen miles.

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NEAR LOUISA POINT, MATHERAN.
From Album II * Image 18 * Size 12 x 7½ inches. (A purchased photograph number 2198)
(George W. Randall Archive)

Louisa Point, set in an area known as Cathedral Rocks, affords fine views and beautiful sunsets. At the time of our traveller’s visit it was possible on a clear day to see and hear Bombay thirty miles due west on the Arabian Sea coast.

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