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Rickshaws and an ox cart

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2020-11-06 12:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

Traffic on Hankow and Salisbury Roads was very different in 1930!

(Detail cropped from page 78 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'.)

Statue square steam crane

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2020-11-03 13:27
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902

Today this land is home to the Cenotaph and the neatly kept lawn that surrounds it. But back in 1902, and for roughly the first ten years of the twentieth century, it was a builder's yard, complete with its own steam crane.

(Detail cropped from page 70 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'.)

Reviewing the blueprint

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2020-11-02 17:55
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2020

This afternoon I met Suk Woon to review the blueprint for the new Gwulo book. The blueprint is generated from the computer that will make the metal plates the printer will use to print the book. The blueprint's colour isn't as accurate as the proofs I saw last week, but when you turn the pages of the blueprint you get the feeling you're turning the pages of a book, giving you one last chance to check for any final layout errors.

Signing off the proofs for the new Gwulo book

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2020-10-30 16:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2020

Today's job was to sign off the proofs for the new Volume 4 of the Gwulo books. The proofs were delivered yesterday, but we found a couple of pages that could be improved. After some quick edits and a new set of proofs, all was well.

1902: old & new

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2020-10-30 16:25
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902

The 'old' in this scene is the low building running across the centre of the photo. The North Barracks were built for the British Army in the 1840s.

The two buildings above it provide the 'new': 2 Connaught Road, the tall building at top left, was just four years old when this photo was taken. Next to it stood the Butterfield & Swire's building, then aged five.

(Detail cropped from page 64 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.)

1902 Watering Queen's Road

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2020-10-27 10:40

In 1902, the surface of Queen's Road (modern-day Queensway) was macadamised, which meant that when the weather was dry, traffic stirred up a lot of dust.

One of the government's solutions was to use water carts like this. Teams of workers pulled the carts along the road, and the carts sprayed out water from the pipe at the back to help keep the dust down.

Racing at Happy Valley

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2020-10-22 18:54
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902

We know the photo was taken in 1902 and, looking at the clouds of dust the horses are kicking up, probably on a dry day in the autumn.

(Detail cropped from page 58 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.)

Refreshments at Happy Valley

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2020-10-20 13:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

The young man is enjoying some refreshment, bought from a hawker at the Happy Valley racecourse. The photo was likely taken in the 1930s.

(Detail cropped from page 55 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.)

Top of the gatepost on Jardine's gateway (p.50)

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-10-17 14:09

This little detail was the clue that identified the photo's location. It shows the top of one of the gateposts at Jardine's stone gateway. 

Detail cropped from page 50 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.

Laundry delivery? (p.42)

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-10-17 14:09

A man using a shoulder pole to carry his load along Pedder Street in the 1900s.

Detail cropped from page 42 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.

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