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Alexandra House, Queens Road, Hong Kong - 1950's

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-06-12 21:29

Date set to 1957. It looks quite like http://gwulo.com/atom/14820 (also 1957).

And what is PAA?

 

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1957
Places shown in this photo: 
Alexandra House (1st generation) [1952-1974]
Tags: 
Alexandra House
tram
bus

Star Ferry, Kowloon, 1920s

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2016-06-10 00:51

Update after comments (see below):

Exact date cannot be determined, but earliest 1925. Date amended from 1923 to 1925.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925
Places shown in this photo: 
Star Ferry Terminal, TST (previous generation) [1907-c.1957]
Tags: 
star ferry
TST
bus

Hongkong - Streetlife - 24 (View into Jordan Road)

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-05-08 04:13
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2004
Places shown in this photo: 
Junction of Nathan & Jordan Roads [????- ]
Tags: 
Hong Kong
harbour
pearlriver
asienmanphotography
southchinasea
bus

Hongkong - Tramway - 17 (Yee Wo Street)

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-05-08 03:45
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2004
Places shown in this photo: 
Yee Wo Street, Causeway Bay [1902- ]

1950s Prince Edward Rd

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2016-04-19 22:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Places shown in this photo: 
St Teresa's Church [1932- ]
Tags: 
Hong Kong
old
bus

Traffic Pagoda at the Peninsula Hotel

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-04-14 00:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1958
Places shown in this photo: 
Junction of Nathan Road and Salisbury Road [????- ]
The Peninsula Hotel [1927- ]
YMCA, TST (First generation) [1925-c.1990]
Tags: 
traffic pagoda
bus
TST
Peninsula Hotel
YMCA

Bus

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2016-04-10 21:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1953

Detail cropped from this photo: http://gwulo.com/atom/24353

Peninsula Hotel airport bus-11 December 1937

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2016-04-04 16:25
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937
Places shown in this photo: 
Kai Tak Airfield / Airport [????- ]

The right-hand side of this photograph reveals just the front of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Hotel’s {Peninsula} airport bus at Kai Tak.

A picture of the whole vehicle with its airline signboards has yet to be found.

The related microfilmed newsprint has been transcribed below.

 

SCMP 11 December 1937

NEW MOTOR COACH

Further facilities for Air Travellers to Hong Kong

BOAC half-bus to Kai Tak from the Peninsula Hotel

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2016-04-02 21:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949
Places shown in this photo: 
The Peninsula Hotel [1927- ]

This BOAC bus is parked outside the Peninsula Hotel on what is now a very busy corner.

The hotel had run its own bus before WW2 for various airlines denoting which one by hanging appropriate signboards on its outside. No pictures of one have yet emerged, although there is a newsprint clipping announcing its arrival in HK in the late 1930s.

1953 Junction of Nathan Road and Haiphong Road

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2015-05-31 08:42
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1953
Places shown in this photo: 
Junction of Nathan Road and Haiphong Road [????- ]
Tags: 
bus

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