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Ping Shan (屏山) police station, New Territories

This photo is also posted by the University of Bristol.

They give the following information:

Image from an album in the National Archives entitled: 'Photographic views of certain places in the NEW TERRITORY / Enclosure to Despatch No.304 of the 12th. August, 1901.', referenced at the National Archives as: 'HONG KONG 8. Photographic views of certain places in the New Territories. 1901. (CO 1069/451)'.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1901

Ching_Shu_Hin,_Ping_Shan

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2011

By Mk2010 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25914736

A much larger complex of buildings than expected from viewing the old photo.

 

Former Ping Shan Police Station (2010)

Ping Shan Tang Clan Gallery cum Heritage Trail Visitors Centre, opened in 2007. (see here)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2010

Quarry Camp, Ping Shan 1956Dec28(Mapref_F22_558-0219)

Garden Village project-Ping Shan-HK Sunday Herald-1938-04-17

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938

As a few houses of this project were completed it might explain why a number of compounded properties were to be found in the area  up until the massive redevelopment of the New Territories took place

RAF's arrival in Hong Kong-1945

An interesting article starting on page 32 onwards to page 45 of this PDF covering the RAF’s arrival in Hong Kong in 1945

Most of the story has been told in various formats in previously published documents.

One map/diagram shows Ping Shan and Ka Tak far way from where they actually are..

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/research/RAF-Historical-Society-J...

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2016Nov5 front 1st floor verandah 1.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2016
Places shown in this photo: 

2016Nov5 front 1st floor verandah.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2016
Places shown in this photo: 

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