Look at the cricket pitch all laid out as tennis courts. Was there a tennis season and a cricket season, or was it tennis in the week and cricket at the weekends?
1930s Aerial view over Statue Square
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Date picture taken (may be approximate):
Wednesday, January 1, 1930
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- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place The Cenotaph [1923- ]
- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place Queen Victoria's statue (original location) [1896-1944]
- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place Hong Kong Club Building (2nd Generation) [1897-1981]
- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place HK Cricket Club pitch (1st location) [1851-1975]
- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place Supreme Court Building / Legislative Council Building [1910- ]
- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place Big Chimney, Naval Dockyard [c.1906-1960]
- 1930s Aerial view over Statue Square shows Place Former Hong Kong Cricket Clubhouse (3rd location: NW) [1923-????]
Comments
I still can't believe the
I still can't believe the Hong Kong club board members voted to knock down that building (front centre). That has to be the dumbest decision in all of Hong Kong's demolition over the years (among many very dumb decisions).
Re: Hong Kong Cricket Club
As seen here on the history of the Hong Kong Cricket Club, the aims of the Club in it infancy was to "promote the game of cricket, tennis, croquet and other atheletic sports and past times".
Hong Kong Cricket Club
Cricket is played from September to April. And tennis in the summer months.
Ian
Hong Kong Cricket Club - tennis
From memory - those tennis courts were only laid out once the cricket season was over, so probably from April - when the weather changed and it started to become too hot for cricket! I played there many times with my parents and brother.
Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis