Entry to the St. Thomas Church is from the west (seen on the right). Walls on both sides of the entrance lobby are covered in memorials. The antechamber (seen in the center) is used as the choir room. Above the choir room door hangs an old photograph of the Church Gate, which was demolished along with the ramparts of Bombay Fort in the mid-1860s.
The Bombay Samachar office is located on SA Brelvi Road, named after Syed Abdullah Brelvi, long-time editor of the Bombay Chronicle. Brelvi joined the newspaper as an assistant editor in 1915 and became editor in 1924, a position he held till his death (1949). He supported Mahatma Gandhi and critiqued the Muslim League, which irritated M.A. Jinnah.
Bombay Green was a hub of cotton trading before the traders were relocated to Colaba Causeway in 1838. Thereafter, Bombay Green was lying derelict, although the Agri-Horticultural Society made some effort to convert it into a public garden. Finally, in 1863, Police Commissioner Charles Forjett proposed to convert the Green into a Circle.
The keystones at Horniman Circle are iconic for their portraits of bearded old men. Each keystone has a unique face and set expression, though they all have some common characteristics, like long beards, flowing locks of hair, deep-set eyes, and a floral ribbon tied in a knot on the head.