THE ROYAL BOMBAY Yacht Club faces the famous Gateway of India. One side of the club’s compound runs along Adom Street. ‘Adom’ is a transliteration of a transliteration of ‘Adam’.

According to Samuel T Sheppard’s book “Bombay Place-Names and Street-Names”, the Street is named after the British architect John Adams. He taught architectural drawing at Bombay’s esteemed Sir JJ School of Art.

Adams designed the Royal Yacht Club’s present building that faces the Gateway of India. Although the club was founded in 1846, Adams’s edifice was opened in 1898.

It is appropriate that a Street running next to his building now bears his name, even though on the street  ame sign, it is now spelled Adom instead of Adam.