On March 1st 1950, Lane Crawford celebrated its 100th anniversary with a party at the Hongkong Hotel. The governor, Sir Alexander Grantham was the guest of honour. There's a selection of photos in the archive but none, alas, is labelled. <Read more ...>
This is a photo of the Eustace family - F.O. Eustace and his son, William Albert, and their wives. F.O. Eustace, who may have been from New Zealand, joined Lane Crawford in 1865. According to a note in the archive, he went to Shanghai (where Lane Crawford had a store) in 1869 and then to Yokohama (where there was also a Lane Crawford store) in 1870. He returned to Hong Kong in 1898. William Albert Eustace is in the mess photo of 1904, and became Lane Crawford's managing director. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1904
Lane Crawford, founded in 1850, has started a heritage project. It has a file of interesting old photos, many of them unlabelled, which we'll be putting on Gwulo. The individuals in this one, taken in the firm's Queen's Road mess in 1904, were subsequently identified by someone unknown who wrote these brief names, and notes about occupation, on a piece of paper:
