Photos from last night's talk

Thanks to everyone who attended last night's talk. Here are the photos we looked at. You can click any photo to see a more detailed copy, and notes about that photo.

A walk around Central

We started off on the old seafront

turned into Pedder Street

walked along Des Voeux Road

crossed over into Queen's Road

then took a look up Pottinger Street

Queen's Road

The next sequence followed Queen's Road from west to east. We started off in Sai Ying Pun

moved over to Central

then Admiralty

and Wanchai.

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We stayed with Queen's Road but dropped back down to street-level at the junction with Wanchai Road

and ended up at the old Gap Road

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From The Peak to Kowloon

In the next sequence we followed Jean Gittins' daily journey from home on the Peak to school in Kowloon. We followed the main road from home

around to the Peak Tram station

There we hopped on a tram downhill

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then walked over to catch a Star Ferry from the pier at Ice House Street

Over in TST we jumped in a rickshaw

then relaxed as we rode along Nathan Road

Destruction & construction

The last set started off with the destruction caused by typhoons in 1936

1906

and 1926

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Then we switched from natural to man-made destruction, with the demolition of the old GPO building

The next photo straddled the destruction / construction line, excavating Morrison Hill to reclaim the shoreline

and we finished off with the miners who dug the Beacon Hill tunnel, sitting in their cable car