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An aerial view of North Point waterfront 1976

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An aerial view of North Point waterfront 1976
Submitted by Klaus. View the original image on Flickr.
Authors: 
shuibien_chen
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aerial photographs
North Point

"There are Power Station, Government Store and Oil Depot along the coast. The Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter and the Victoria Park can be seen at the back 1976."

The sign on the large building probably reads: Watson's Estate

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Thursday, January 1, 1976
Gallery: 
1970s Hong Kong
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Submitted by Martinihk on Tue, 2022-04-26 04:40.

More Fortress Hill than North Point, if we are allowed to use informal (MTR-influenced) area names.

Submitted by tngan on Tue, 2022-04-26 17:03.

Hi Klaus,

At around the Hong Kong Library watermark, where the "Hong Kong" phrase located should be the Hong Kong Governmetn Logistics Services Depot.  The Depot cornered on Oil Street up to the sea front.  I remember there used to be a public Morgue on Oil Street.  Unable to confirm if it could be seen in the photo.

There are boundary walls on oil street, as well as on the eastern end of the depot, visible in the photo.  The main gate of Logistics Services is approximately opposite 'King Wah Street', which is also visible.

On the other hand, on extreme zoom, you should be able to have a glimsp of a corner of the demolished Causeway Bay Police Station, just opposite the other end of Watson's Building on Electric Road.

T

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2022-04-27 21:30.

Hi Thomas,

thank you for the additional details. The Government Logistic Services Depot also appears on the 1952 map on Gwulo, but I do not know anything about it.

The police station is partly visible (as you said). This should be a second generation building, the first one was likely demolished during WW2. In the Annual Report for the year 1948 it is referred: 

A sum of approximately $6,500,000 is also being made available from Loan funds for the completion of the Divisional Headquarters at Kowloon City, for Police Stations at Bay View, Hung Hom and Shaukiwan, and for Police blockhouses in the New Territories. It did not prove possible to carry out very much of this work during the present year, but the work will be pushed forward during 1949-50.

Regards, Klaus