#Broadway #ChennaiBroadway #BroadwayHistory
#Broadway (officially known as Prakasam Salai, after the freedom fighter T. Prakasam) is one of the historical thoroughfares of the commercial centre of George Town in Chennai, India. The road runs north-south connecting China Bazaar Road in the south with #IbrahimSahibStreet ( #OldJailRoad) in the north. The road divides George Town into #Muthialpet and #Peddanaickenpet.
The Pophams Broadway at #Madras was once a fine road bisecting George Town into Peddanaickenpet and Muthialpet. Before, it was a road, it was a ditch in the suburb called Atta Pallam, and was owned by Stephen Popham, former MP of the #British Parliament and later Advocate General at Calcutta, who moved to Madras in 1778. Popham is credited with setting up the #MadrasPolice in 1782. At that time, the lands of the present Madras United Club, #GeneralHospital and #ParkTown Post Office was a hill called Hoggs Hill (called as #Narimedu or 'mound of foxes' by the natives). Hoggs Hill was considered to be a security threat to the Fort St. George and a decision was taken to level the hill. Popham's negotiated with the Government of Madras to use the earth removed from Hoggs Hill to fill up the ditch. The road which came through after filling the ditch came to be known as Popham's Broadway.
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