1961 Central banks decorated for Princess Alexandra's visit
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Date picture taken (may be approximate):
Friday, December 1, 1961
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- 1961 Central banks decorated for Princess Alexandra's visit shows Place HSBC Headquarters Building (3rd generation) [1935-1984]
- 1961 Central banks decorated for Princess Alexandra's visit shows Place Statue Square, Central [????- ]
- 1961 Central banks decorated for Princess Alexandra's visit shows Place Chartered Bank / Standard Chartered Bank building [1959-1986]
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Visit of Princess Alexandra?
I'm prettty sure this is the visit of Princess Alexandra in 1961 (Nov-Dec).
Alun
re: Visit of Princess Alexandra?
I found a Pathe video confirming the arches in the foreground were put up for her visit. See 0:29 in:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjl_Lell6-I
Any chance the decorations stayed up til Christmas? I'm thinking of how the modern Christmas light decorations stay up and morph into Chinese New Year decorations.
Regards, David
PS The other videos from the visit are also good to see:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAscFHN2kqg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5B6Bq_kISiE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlnQm6oyjU8
Dec or Xmas?
I would have thought they would have put up Xmas decorations at the end of the month, and their famous "Happy Christmas etc", on top of the bank?
One question I have is the Bamboo Arch (I forget the name).
In the visit, the Royal party drive under it - pointing at the HSBC.
In this image the arch has been turned 90 degrees - so it could have been later in the month.
Princess visit
I took a look through the photos and see what you mean - christmas trees & Merry Christmas were their standard design, eg:
http://gwulo.com/node/14983
http://gwulo.com/node/15240
http://gwulo.com/node/6792
I've updated the title,
Regards, David
Re: Bamboo Archway
Just had a quick glance at the HKPL website. The bamboo archway was removed and Statue Square reverted to being a car park in December 1961.
Or it could be for the Visit of Prince Phillip in 1959
I've seen some pictures of Prince Phillip's visit in 1959, and they put up the same banners, and the same bamboo archway.
( Not sure how to include a picture ;-( )
How to include a picture
Still a bit more work to do to get adding photos into text working, but I hope to have it finished this week. In the meantime we can still provide a link to the photo, eg The bamboo arch in 1959: http://gwulo.com/atom/19657
Regards, David