Walsingham House School is a private girls' school founded in 1940 and located in a former palace of the Maharajah of Kutch in South Bombay, India.
The school was founded in 1940 by Mrs. Tree and Mrs. Adcock at Oomer Park. Mrs. Tree was the first school principal. In 1950 it moved to Breach Candy, and in 1965 it moved to its current premises which is currently located on L.J Road (Nepean Sea Road). The school is now at Dariya Mahal.
Since 1970, the school is managed by the Mittal Trust, and serving approximately 1,500 students and 103 faculty and staff members.
In 2015,the school hosted Banganga Tank cleaning project. [1]
A banyan, also spelled banian, is a fig that develops accessory trunks from adjacent prop roots, allowing the tree to spread outwards indefinitely. This distinguishes banyans from other trees with a strangler habit that begin life as an epiphyte, i.e. a plant that grows on another plant, when its seed germinates in a crack or crevice of a host tree or edifice. "Banyan" often specifically denotes Ficus benghalensis, which is the national tree of India, though the name has also been generalized to denominate all figs that share a common life cycle and used systematically in taxonomy to denominate the subgenus Urostigma.
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