Photo courtesy of Geoffrey
1940s Aberdeen / Ap Lei Chau
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Date picture taken (may be approximate):
Monday, January 1, 1940
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Connections:
- 1940s Aberdeen / Ap Lei Chau shows Place Chinese permanent cemetery, Aberdeen [c.1916- ]
- 1940s Aberdeen / Ap Lei Chau shows Place Aberdeen Harbour [????- ]
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Aberdeen
Aberdeen
Re; Aberdeen?
Aberdeen
I'll vote for the Aberdeen / Ap Lei Chau combination too. I couldn't work out the mass of "buildings" at first, so thanks for pointing out it is a cemetary.
The hillside on the left has a grey line running along it. I think that's the catchwater that runs behind the Tin Wan Estate - part of the Hong Kong trail runs along it.
MrB
Aberdeen/Apleichau Today
Photos of Aberdeen today from T
View across Aberdeen Harbour
Tom is correct. The old photo was taken from Ap Lei Chau across Aberdeeen Harbour. The hillside dominating the left side of the photo is Mount Kellett. The distant ridgeline with buildings silloetted on top is the south jutting spur to the east of Jardines Corner on which the Peak Police Station is situated. To its right, and still further away, is Mount Gough with Seven Road the light coloured line contouring around it.
Here's a photo taken today from Block 1, South Horizons, a little to the east of the original. That's Tin Wan opposite.
The 1939 1:20,000 OS map of the area shows a footpath running west from Ap Lei Chau Village, well above the shoreline, to approximately the place where the old photo was taken from. Perhaps the photographer was on the footpath.