1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel

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Date picture taken (may be approximate):

Wednesday, January 1, 1930

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1930s Hong Kong

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1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place The Peninsula Hotel [1927- ]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Clock Tower of KCR Terminus [????- ]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Former Marine Police HQ [1884- ]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place YMCA, TST (First generation) [1925-c.1990]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Kowloon Hotel (3rd generation) [1923-1955]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place KCR Terminus, TST [1916-1978]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Ho Tung Mansions (K. I. L. No. 527) [1931-1966]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Time-ball tower (1st generation) [1885- ]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Chinese Houses on Peking Road [1914-c.1972]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place Tsim Sha Tsui Market [c.1911-c.1999]

1930s Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station, YMCA and Peninsula Hotel shows Place 1930s Block of European Flats [1930-c.1961]

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Tsim Sha Tsui KCR station

Permalink Submitted by Oldtimer (not verified) on Mon, 2007-10-08 08:44.

Beautiful photo - must have been taken from the air. Grandma used to take me on her frequent trips to Guangzou our home town. What impressed me were the train bumpers mounted at the very end of the tracks on concrete platform. Each time, the thoughts would come up in the little boy's mind: "This is where the exciting journey starts".

Peking Road Market

Permalink Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2020-01-08 00:14.

Peking Road Market left behind Marine Police HQ.

4 Ashley Road

Permalink Submitted by Lawrence Tsui on Wed, 2020-01-08 00:43.

Good to see the place where I was born, and spent a few holidays there when I was a boy in the 50s. Fond memories of the huge Banyan Trees on the slope of the Marine Police HQ as well as the wonderful smell of freshly baked bread or cakes enmanating from the YMCA kitchen.

My father was billeted at The Pen immediately after the War. Upon reuniting with the family, he found that classy old apartment in the neighbourhood, owned by the Hotung Family. Japanese PoWs were sent to clean up the place after it was used by the Kempatei I gathered. The spacious apartment long hadhardwood floors, two dysfunctional fireplaces, colunms between the living and dining room, two and half baths complete with copper gas water heaters in each over the huge bathtubs with legs...

At the junction of Ashley Road and Peking Road, turn left and there was a line of Chinese gracery shops; turn right, one would be in the tourist area of TST...

Lawrence