Chennai My City

  Please do not use the pictures without getting my permission, as these photos are copywritten. If you need one please write to me, email address is given below. If you all think that Central Railway Station was the 1strailway station, then you are wrong. The very 1st railway station was built at Roaypuram, sadly now that station is just used for very few local train stoppages and most of goods train stoppage. Coming back to Central Railway Station, the very same ground where the current building is standing was called “Nari Medu”.  The word “Medu” in Tamizh means Hillock. When the East India Company decided to move the central railway station from Royapuram to Nari Medu they had a challenge in bringing down the hillock to a flat plain land. So, where the debris would be shifted was their biggest question? In came Stephen Popham [British politician and solicitor] who bought the entire Broadway area which was called Muthialpet.  Every one made fun of Popham for buying a “...

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  Please do not use the pictures without getting my permission, as these photos are copywritten. If you need one please write to me, email address is given below. The reason for building this Memorial Hall is that the East India Company faced a huge set back during the Sepoy Mutiny and they were spared from the trouble of uprising in the Madras Presidency, for the good behaviour of the Chennai People this hall was built. Architecture Greek style, architects by Captain George Winscom & Colonel Horseley.  williamsatish25@gmail.com

  Please do not use the pictures without getting my permission, as these photos are copywritten. If you need one please write to me, email address is given below. Rippon building is one among the most beautiful building in Madras now Chennai. It will be at least in the top 5 biggest buildings built during the British Raj Era in size wise. The building was mainly built for the office bearers of Madras Corporation. For more details of who is Ripon and why the building is named after Ripon you got to refer to historian Mr. Sriram.V explaining to you all in detail about the history.   https://youtu.be/gLIpm9EEJmg  williamsatish25@gmail.com

  Please do not use the pictures without getting my permission, as these photos are copywritten. If you need one please write to me, email address is given below. williamsatish25@gmail.com

  Please do not use the pictures without getting my permission, as these photos are copywritten. If you need one please write to me, email address is given below. I do not take credits for the writing of this article for it was written by Ms.Janani Sampth for the The New Indian Express [ https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/chennai/2013/feb/02/looking-back-on-chennais-first-ever-electric-theatre-446655.html ] Contrary to the common perception that erstwhile Madras’ first theatre, the Electric Theatre, was established in 1900, the earliest advertisement material available for the theatre, shows that it began its run only in 1913. Established by Warwick Major and Reginald Eyre, the theatre, however, had only a two-year run, after which it was taken over by the government. With almost all the old theatres in the city having gone from the city, perhaps the buildings, both that housed Electric Theatre and Mrs Klugg’s bioscope, stand as reminders of the time when the city be...