Crawford market: Located near the heart

Located near the heart of South Mumbai within walking distance from Crawford Market this neo-Gothic style monument depicting the Roman goddess Flora is well recognized as an iconic image of Mumbai. Crawford Market shares an interesting connection with that great great representative of the British Empire in India, Mr Kipling. But not as you might have though, the author and journalist Rudyard Kipling, but his father John Lockwood Kipling. But most interesting to us is that he designed the friezes on the Crawford Market building. They show scenes of Indian rural life and farmers as fits the connection with this as a market where farm goods are sold. The market is named name for Arthur Crawford , the first municipal commissioner of Bombay under the British. It was the main market for the south of the city until 1990s until most traders moved to the APMC market in Vashi, New Mumbai.