The next time you take a walk down Churchgate Street (today’s Veer Nariman Road) — the road that leads from Horniman Circle to Marine Drive — stop for a second, roll back the years, and imagine that you are back in Bombay of the 1930s to ’50s. Picture the place as a bridge between what the city used to be before that era, and what it is today.

But before that, attend a lecture that journalist Siddharth Bhatia will give tomorrow, to gain some context. It’s part of a monthly series that the Bombay Local History Society has started to revive interest in Mumbai’s heritage, and Bhatia tells us, “My talk is going to centre on the actual creation and development of the street — why it came up and what came up there.”