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Laneway between Cumberland & Stafford Roads, Kowloon Tong [c.1930- ]

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Submitted by LizB on Sat, 2016-06-18 20:49
Current condition: 
In use
Date Place completed: 
c.1930-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

There is a photo on the link below (which refers to a current HKU research project) which is labelled only "Kowloon Tong in 1930s".

Link: http://www.arch.hku.hk/research_project/speculative-urbanism-modernist-p...

I am not sure exactly where it was taken, but one guess is the spot shown in the modern photo, which I will attach soon. This shows the entrance to the back laneway between Cumberland Road and Stafford Road, taken from Essex Crescent. The white-topped stone walls seem to be very similar to those seen in one or two other Cumberland Road photos of the same era, they appear to have a similar gradient, and Beacon Hill is in the background.  The only other place it could possibly be, I think, is the laneway between Suffolk Road and Somerset Road. 

 

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Kowloon Tong
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Submitted by LizB on Sat, 2016-06-18 20:53.
Laneway between Cumberland & Stafford Rd June2016.jpg
Laneway between Cumberland & Stafford Rd June2016.jpg, by LizB