Old Hong Kong Photos ... Volume 3: Photos and further information | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Old Hong Kong Photos ... Volume 3: Photos and further information

Please click on any photo to visit its page, where you can learn more about the scene, ask questions, and add information. If you'd like to order a printed copy, or license a digital copy to use in your project, please note the ID shown below the photo.

 


 

Photo (1): Sulphur Channel

Main photo:

1920s Kennedy Town
Photo ID: BC009

 


 

Photo (2): Central and the Peak, c. 1906

Main photo:

1906 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Photo ID: BA058

 

Additional photo:

c.1922 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Photo ID: EE058

 


 

Photo (3): Central and the Peak, c. 1935

Main photo:

c.1935 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Photo ID: A093

 

Additional photo:

c.1955 View of HK from harbour
Photo ID: A003

 


 

Photo (4): Central and the Peak, 1969

Main photo:

1969. Hong Kong island from across the harbour
Photo ID: A010B

 


 

Photo (5): Staunton Creek

Main photo:

1924 Staunton Creek
Photo ID: A080

 


 

Photo (6): Aberdeen harbour

Main photo:

c.1935 View over Aberdeen harbour
Photo ID: A005

 

Additional photos:

c.1902 Shau Kei Wan
Photo ID: A262

 

c.1900 View of beached sampans along the Yau Ma Tei shoreline
Photo ID: A218

 

1930s Tai O
Photo ID: A180A

 


 

Photo (7): Cheung Chau

Main photo:

c.1930 Cheung Chau
Photo ID: EC036

 


 

Photo (8): Connaught Road

Main photo:

c.1925 Central Praya
Photo ID: EE060

 

Additional photos:

c.1910 Ship's crew at Hong Kong
Photo ID: A095

 

Photo ID: A372, 'Looking northeast over the Bay, from the New Market’. Not yet online.

 


 

Photo (9): Kowloon Wharves

Main photo:

Kowloon Wharves after the 1906 typhoon
Photo ID: BA004

 

Additional photo:

1927 - "Coolies wearing Chinese raincoats"
Photo ID: A229

 


 

Photo (10): The Naval Yard

Main photo:

c.1890 View of Naval Yard, harbour & TST from Scandal Point
Photo ID: A076

 


 

Photo (11): HMS Tamar

Main photo:

HMS Tamar
Photo ID: EE056

 

Additional photos:

In the stoke-hole of H.M.S. Terrible. Hong Kong, China. 1902.
Photo ID: A101

 

1926 Submarines and HMS Titania
Photo ID: ED001

 


 

Photo (12): Naval wedding

Main photo:

1940 Naval wedding
Photo ID: A123

 


 

Photo (13): Naval dry dock

Main photo:

Dry dock at Royal Naval Dockyard
Photo ID: ED012

 

Additional photo:

Photo ID: NA123, 'HMS Dawkins in dock'. Not yet online.

 


 

Photo (14): Taikoo dry dock

Main photo:

Dry dock at Taikoo
Photo ID: ED016

 

Additional photo:

1954 Side-party
Photo ID: EC039

 


 

Photo (15): Royal Engineers

Main photo:

1911 Royal Engineers Detachment, Mount Davis
Photo ID: A169

 

Additional photo(s):

c.1925 Gun in Kowloon
Photo ID: A226

 

1911 West Battery
Photo ID: EL011

 


 

Photo (16): Dragon boat

Main photo:

c.1920 Dragon Boat off North Point
Photo ID: ED007

 

Additional photos:

Beach of North Point
Photo ID: K159

 

1950s Dragon Boat Race at Aberdeen
Photo ID: A021

 


 

Photo (17): Wanchai looking east

Main photo:

c.1950 view across Wanchai
Photo ID: A225G

 

Additional photos:

1930s Panorama from Central to Causeway Bay
Photo ID: A135+6

 

1950s Causeway Bay typhoon shelter
Photo ID: A431

 

c.1960 Kellett Island
Photo ID: A225I

 


 

Photo (18): Wanchai looking west

Main photo:

Wanchai's seafront in 1902
Photo ID: NDA02

 

Additional photo:

After the typhoon: Ah King's Slipway
Photo ID: EM002

 


 

Photo (19): Ah-King’s Paula

Main photo:

Boat under construction
Photo ID: A369A

 

Additional photos:

Photo ID: A369C, Launch out of water on slipway. Not yet online.

 

Launch off Cheung Chau
Photo ID: A369D

 

Cooling off in the sea
Photo ID: A369G

 

Salute!
Photo ID: A369N

 


 

Photo (20): Repulse Bay

Main photo:

1920s Swimming at Repulse Bay
Photo ID: ED015

 


 

Photo (21): Kowloon City Pier

Main photo:

1907 Soldiers swimming
Photo ID: BB022

 

Additional photo:

Cooling off
Photo ID: A180C

 


 

Photo (22): Farewell!

Main photo:

1928 Ticker-tape departure of Empress of Russia from the Kowloon Wharves
Photo ID: EG001