Note at the back of the photo (made in July 1926) from my grandmother M.G. Marks-Groot (1892-1979) in Dutch says that on the left bottom corner the road continued and the water was running under the bridge. At the same altitude as May Road, not far from where they lived (2 Tregunter Mansions)
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Floods of 1926
HK Telegraph 19 July 1926
"Magazine Gap Road has also been badly breached, two bridges near the May Road level having gone. The damage is very extensive."