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West Wing topping-off Ceremony photo

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West Wing topping-off Ceremony photo
Submitted by annelisec
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group photo

Who are these guys ?

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, January 1, 1959
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Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2012-01-31 01:06.

14MG version available.  David, is that too big to upload ?

Submitted by Admin on Wed, 2012-02-01 20:31.

I don't know the exact limit, but it's somewhere around 12 mega-pixels (I use 3,000 x 4,000 as my maximum).

If you're mainly interested in identifying faces, you could halve the size by cropping off the sky/buildings and pavement.

Regards, David

PS Are they up on the roof of the building?

Submitted by tonylam on Sun, 2012-02-05 10:35.

It seems that they were on the roof top of EAST wing in relation to Government House

Submitted by David on Fri, 2012-02-24 14:48.

Bill Lake has identified the man in the front row, sixth from left is John Charter:

He was the architect of the East Wing and the Main Block.

Regards, David

Submitted by Chinarail on Sun, 2014-03-16 10:23.

I agree with other posts that in order to identify faces it would help if we might see a higher resolution image of the group by cropping out the background.

Seated in the centre, the shape of face and heavy-framed glasses suggest that it could  be David Trench (later Sir David)  who after a posting as High Commissioner B.W.P.T returned to Hong Kong in 1964 as  Governor. Trench was in Hong Kong in 1959-1960 as Deputy Colonial Secretary.