Lively street scene, with signs reading "Sing Kee Boots & Shoe Maker", "Tung Cheong Co.", "The Rainbow Artistic Goods Store", and many more.
Photo made by Willem Kien, director at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC), which was Charles Gesner van der Voort’s (1916-1991) employer. The company had offices in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Guangzhou (Canton) and Tientsin (Tianjin).
Courtesy Kien family archives
Comments
1930 street
Dear reader,
Do you recognise this street?
Kind regards,
Pieter
Wellington Street
Looks like Wellington Street, Central.
Wellington Street
many thanks Moddsey
Wellington Street
The direction of the street goes up. Yet there was the silhouette of a mountain in the background (? Victoria Peak). Wellington Street goes in a east-West direction. Should not see the peak!
Wellington Street
Hi tw wong,
Well, the photographer may be looking from west to east, and the 'mountain' could be in the Magazine Gap area.
Wellington Street
Wellington Street slopes gently upwards from Queen’s Road Central, reaches the junction with 擺花街，then goes downwards. The photo could have been taken there, with the photographer facing east, downhill. That would explain the hill in the background. The slopes of Central mid-level, Upper Albert Road, and Botanical Garden should be in line, if not blocked by buildings between the photographer and the present date D’agular Street, Wyndham Street and Ice House Street.