The Old Woman’s Shoe is polished.
The Kamala Nehru Park, with its iconic Old Woman’s Shoe & the Hanging Gardens Malabar Hill, Mumbai are now fully refurbished.
The Old Woman’s Shoe.
Then
a fairyland with a waterfall that culminates in a pond from which fountains play, a bird house, a built-in fish tank and a bridge spanning the cliffs overlooking the city’s south-west coastline.
Times of India, 1952
The gardens.
Now
The park is given a nursery rhyme theme where the walls are painted with rhymes in English, Hindi and Marathi. The BMC has also made a 408-metre walkway in the park as a viewing gallery which will offer visitors a panoramic view of the Queen’s Necklace, the barricades of which is made into an abacus for children to practice. Besides that, there will be ecological signage spread all across the park to educate children.
Mumbai: Iconic Kamala Nehru Park gets a new avatar
Ashoka pillar.