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1890s Peak Tram with bridges

Unusual view onto the lower part of the Peak Tram, more to the west than the "usual photos".

Photo taken after 1892 when the MacDonnell Road bridge over Peak Tram [1892- ] was finished. Likely not much later than 1893 as the only building visible is Union Church (3rd generation) [1891-c.1944]. May Road bridge hasn't been built yet, it's from 1907.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1893

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900

Cropped from a photo of probably 1900's, before The First Church of Christ Scientific was built on Macdonnell Road (in 1912).

Ballindae was the second building from the left.

 

1926-1927 View of Ballindae, St. Paul’s Girls’ College, and Union Church (3rd generation)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1926

1926-1927 View of Ballindae (bottom left), St. Paul’s Girls’ College (in scaffold), and Union Church (3rd generation).

James Henry KYNOCH [c.1882-1926]

Status: 
Deceased
Sex: 
Male
Names
Family: 
Kynoch
Given: 
James Henry
Birth
Date: 
c.1882-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Birthplace (town, state): 
Edinburgh
Death
Date: 
1926-02-05
Other
Other reference: 
C.E. Warren's funeral

James Kynoch was Senior Inspector of Works at the time of his death and had been with the PWD for 18 years. He had worked on the construction of the Panama Canal. He was one of the original promoters of the Kowloon Golf Club, a member of the Kowloon Cricket Club and a member of the Committee of the Union Church, Kowloon. He seems to have been a long standing friend and PWD contact of my grandfather, Charles Warren and a Kowloon neighbour. He is one of the twenty or so people listed in the SCMP as attending Charles Warren's funeral at St Michael's Cemetery in June 1923.

Birthplace (country): 
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