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Hong Kong, Salvation Army building

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Hong Kong, Salvation Army building
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View the original, larger copy of this image at the UWM website: http://collections.lib.uwm.edu/u?/agsphoto,3921

Date picture taken (may be approximate): 
Monday, January 1, 1940
Gallery: 
1940-41 Harrison Forman's photos
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Submitted by moddsey on Fri, 2009-03-20 16:11.

This food kitchen was located on Hennessy Rd, Wanchai and was one of four kitchens that provided a single meal each day to the needy. Nine hundred people would be served in this one kitchen alone. On production of food stamps, the hungry would receive a bowl of thick congee consisting of ordinary and red rice, soya beans, meat. liver, potatoes and vegetables. Source: Hong Kong Telegraph, November 1940.

Submitted by David on Sun, 2009-03-22 17:19.

where along Hennessy Rd this was located?

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2009-07-26 12:15.

I have a faint impression that a contributor on Flickr commented that the site is now the Hennessy Road Government Primary School.

Submitted by David on Mon, 2009-08-31 21:34.

Looking on map 3-5b in Mapping HK, dated 1939-46, there's an empty plot of land where the school is today, marked 'Reserved for market'.

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2012-10-04 07:12.

Created a place for the food kitchen here