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Bank of East Asia Generation 1 & 2

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courtesy of Richard Wong. He gives the date of construction of the first building as 1919. He's built up a detailed collection of old bank buildings across China on his flickr site.

National Commercial & Savings Bank Building / Kwok Man House [1933-????]

Date Place completed: 
1933-04-01
Previous place(s) at this location: 
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standard charterd construction 1988

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1988
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Standard Chartered Construction 1957

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1957
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Bank of East Asia Building (2nd Generation) [1935-1980]

Date Place completed: 
1935-07-02
Date Place demolished: 
1980-07-01

Completion date from attached newspaper article.

The building had a distinctive tower on top.

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Bank of East Asia Building (1st Generation), 10 Des Voeux Road [????-1933]

Date Place demolished: 
1933-09-01

Demolition date from article on page 12, The China Mail, 8th June 1933:

The million dollar building to house the new premises for the bank of East Asia, the work on which is planned to commence in late August or early September, will be situated on the site now occupied by the present Bank building.

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Bank of Canton [1924-c.1966]

Date Place completed: 
1924-07-12
Date Place demolished: 
c.1966-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

The 1924 PWD AR gives the location as " ML 102, section A".

See attached newspaper clipping for opening date, and architect (Palmer & Turner).

The demolition date of 1966 is a guess, based on a 1966 photo which shows an empty lot where the building was demolished. By the time this photo was taken in the late 60s, a new tower block has sprung up in its place:

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Wardley House/HSBC Headquarters Building (1st Generation) [1857-1882]

Date Place completed: 
c.1857-05-01 (Day is approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
1882-01-01

From the Bank's website:

HSBC Headquarters Building (2nd generation) [1886-1933]

Date Place completed: 
1886-08-14
Date Place demolished: 
1933-10-10

The opening date comes from an article in the Hong Kong Daily Press, 1886-08-14, pg02, which reported the opening of the Bank's new building on that day. (Though to be 100% correct, the article notes that "although the Bank is being removed into it, the building is far from completed, and it will not be finished, at all events, within six months."

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