![]() The Bombay Catholic Welfare Association registered St Anthony Homes Co-operative Society in 1925 bought a lot of ground from the Development Department thinking that city folk would want to move to a lonely and peaceful neighbourhood away from the noise, bustle and congestion of the city. ![]() He has penned the history of the area.Īn ambitious scheme of the Bombay Governments Development Department was the Chembur Garden Suburb in the island of Trombay. You can see a photograph of him sitting in the garden of Belvedere if you scroll left. He built Belvedere and moved into it in 1933. I recently came across an autobiography of Aloysius Soares(1891- 1971), educationist and political thinker. I always used to marvel seeing Belvedere as it was one of the best kept bungalows and had a prime location on the Central Avenue very near the OLPS Church. Also later thanks to the street dog vaccinations, we would go into some of the bungalow compounds like of The Grotto to vaccinate dogs against rabies. I discovered the beautiful leafy Chembur neighbourhood with its Central Avenue, lanes, old heritage bungalows and buildings many years ago thanks to my wife who is from Chembur.
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