Church Street, Museum Road: Bangalore, Photographs

Museum road and  Church street are joined or one could say crossed near MG Road at the junction where the New Empire theater is located. New Empire? Yes, only today it is not a theater but a collection of shops that display  garments. The building  is owned by the famous Kapoor family. Museum road and Church street bring back memories f my childhood. Our beloved school teachers fro St. Joseph's BH School lived there  , and a few classmates too. Not forgetting some very interesting damsels. Oh! No!! they were definitely not in distress!!!! I learnt the hard way during my  school days!! Some of the families that lived on Church street were Governor, Rego, D'Mellow, Pinto, Nambia, Ross, Santiago, Andrews, Pereira, Alverez to name most of them, today they have either migrated to other parts of the city or to a better place, and the road has been converted into a parking strip for MG Road, and lots of Commercial complexes have come up. The only old establishments that are still around are High Gates Hotel and Berrys Hotel.

A few years back I met a good friend Rita Noronha, and she kindly took me around to most of the houses on the two roads and I managed to get some photos. Unfortunately I didn't get a good photo if Col. Celestine's place, lets hope I can get one before the building is brought down.

Museum Road:

• We started with Rita's place , only the inside hall has been maintained as original.
• A beautiful assortment of houses of different styles. Note the wall style, similar t some houses found n MG Road (now you will not find any)
• Closer up to the gate
• A view of the driveway
• A splendid  large trellis work house
• A closer view
• A beautiful stone house ( a pair facing each other ) at the entrance of the driveway.
• An old house opposite thjat has been partly moddernised and vonverted into a shcool
• A small cottage tucked away inside

• The Santiago residence (remember Daivs, Paul and Marykate and Jude Gonsalves, who had a band called the Heartbreakers and they practiced in the garage at the back)
• Another view of the driveway
• Side view
• Decorated walls around the doors of the hall
• The roof beams
  
• The original name stone of the house "Falmouth House" is laid on the kitchen floor
• Mrs. Santiago and Rita Noronha , whom I am grateful to allow me to captiure memories and take me around
• The Colasco residence

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