I just copied these off the Internet. I'm sure there are better scans out there and we can update these with the best available as time goes on.
What is the name of the house common to both photos ? And what were the names of the other distinctive houses ?
The house in both photos
Is it also the one in the bamboo scaffolding in this photo?
28 kennedy road?
could it be 28 kennedy road? it was built in the 1890s and would have been prominent... paul chater's behind it again too!
The building is thought to have been built in the late 1890s. The site was
first sold to the Hongkong Land Investment and Agency Company Limited
(香港置地投資及代理有限公司) in 1896. The Company was founded in 1889
by two prominent businessmen, Sir Catchick Paul Chater, an Armenian born in
Calcutta, and James Johnstone Keswick, a Tai-pan (大班) of Jardine, Matheson
& Company (怡和洋行). The Company changed its name into the Hongkong
Land Company Limited (香港置地公司) in 1971.
Since it was built, the building has had several owners and has been used
for a variety of purposes but mainly for educational purposes. The Queen’s
College (皇仁書院) used the premises as temporary school in 1948 until 1950
when the College moved. From 1961 to 1989, the premises was shared by the
Education Department and the Kennedy Road Junior School. It was used by the
Joint Liaison Group (中英聯合聯絡小組) for meetings in the 1990s prior to the
Handover. It is currently used as Office of the Former Chief Executive of the
Hong Kong SAR, the Hon. Tung Chee Hwa (董建華).
28 Kennedy Road
It doesn't look like the 28 that stands there today - unless it has undergone some major re-work.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HK_Kennedy_Road_28_history_bldg.JPG
Engineers - triangulate !
kennedy road
hi guys, the latest postcard makes it clear that after all original descriptions were correct. the split in the roads shows macdonnell heading uphill to the left (which it still does) and kennedy road downhill (also still does). the large house must be where grand house, grosvenor house etc are now. the view now is blocked by the chinese foreign ministry building
house on macdonnell
here's a link to a photo showing a side view of the house in the postcards; also shows the scale of the british military hospital; the section at the back must have replaced by Island School. You can also see the gatehouse that's still there down the hill:
http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/object?svc=objrtv&src=CM&itemid=FIE8UB0EIXZQWD8@&pid=1&mime=image/jpeg
From the Harbour
Here's a picture of the area from the Harbour c.1912-27.
Bowen Road from the Air
And from the Air in 1945.
Alun