Edward Elliot's Beach
Wide sandy city beach with seaside walks, a shrine on the shore and a sailor's brick memorial.
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This guide to Edward Elliot's Beach in Chennai turns on a winter day in nineteen thirty, when a foreign sailor was on the sand and an English girl walked into the surf. It touches the beach's colonial years as a quiet bathing spot, a governor's brick tribute, and a rumour the city has never let go of. Best heard standing beside the small white memorial near the water's edge.
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