A friend sent me this photo.
Could this be Pottinger Street although the Victoria Peak slope in the background would indicate the street is more in the Kennedy/Western area.
A friend sent me this photo.
Could this be Pottinger Street although the Victoria Peak slope in the background would indicate the street is more in the Kennedy/Western area.
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Re Pottinger St
Looks like Pottinger St. Please see if there is a need to horizontally flip the photo when comparing it with other photos in the gallery
re Pottinger St
I did flip it, but some of the writting at the bottom of the street was then backwards so I think this is the correct way. Due to the slope of the hill I thought it was more in the Sands St. region.
Re:Pottinger St?
I agree with T that Pottinger
I agree with T that Pottinger Street is wider than this one, and Sands Street is wider still. Here are views up Pottinger Street from Queen's Road:
and from Wellington Street:
Regards, David
Not Pottinger Street
We discussed this at length on the "Hong Kong - the Early Years" facebook page, and decided that it couldn't be Pottinger Street - for a start, there's a set of modern stairs on the right of pottinger street.
It's not Aberdeen Street, because the building on the right is similar, but has an enclosed verandah on the 2nd level.
Could it be "Ladder" street?, (although a lot of photos of "stair" streets are captioned wrongly as "ladder" street")
Confused (as usual)
Alun
Central Lane
There is the same photo in Google search photos, although i have a suspicion that any street with "steps" is called a ladder.
https://www.google.com.hk/search?q=Ladder+Street+photos&biw=1366&bih=600...
Re: Central Lane
Agreed not Pottinger, Aberdeen, Ladder or Sand Streets. Interesting photo to resolve.
Re: Steps going up hill west of Hollywood Road....
Re: speculations......
Not sure if it can help, but
Not sure if it can help, but here's a stretched view of the sign on the green pillar at the left of the photo:
Re: white words on column
上環江蘇酒家 Kiang Su Restaurant
1940s Same Street Scene
Great match on the photos. I
Great match on the photos. I've stared at them intently, but I'm still none the wiser about where we're looking at!
Regards, David
Re: speculations
Re: Photo Identification
I think T is right about the photo being Ladder Street looking up from Queen's Road Central. The building directly behind Man Mo Temple can be seen in the 1940s photo posted above.
Good work!
I'd never have guessed that - the bottom of ladder street looks very different today.
Regards, David
Re: Same Photo
Man Mo Temple, Hollywood Road and Ladder Street
In the background of Moddsey's picture is a building with the date "1929" on the top, HKMan has a really clear picture of that building, with that date on it.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/old-hk/3013087224/sizes/o/
So no question, It is "Ladder Street", unlike the dozens of other pictures of "stair" streets, that are also labeled Ladder Street ;-)
Re: Building behind Gung Sor (公所)
Hi There,
Yet found another photo, also from eternal1966's Flickr collection, concerning the building behind Gung Sor (公所). The phrase Tung Wah Group of Hospitals (東華三院) was visible, but the signage was cropped. So it would seem at a certain stage that has something to do with TWGH. Yet another photo of the collection revealed another school name 聖雲仙英文書院中區分校 (St. Vincent English College Central District branch). The paint job of the outer wall looked different too.
On the next building behind it, there was a vertical sign saying 威靈頓英文書院 (Wellington English College). That was a quite famous private school.
Thanks & Best Regards,
T