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1960 - apartments and travelling from Canton to Hong Kong

Hi everyone! A few questions. How would someone travel from Canton to Hong Kong in the late 50s-early 60s? Which ports in Canton and HK would have been used? My grandma moved to HK in 1961 aged 20. She worked as an accountant at a factory that made leather gloves - any ideas of where abouts this factory would have been?

Also, does anyone have any pictures/experience of living in an apartment at that time, and what were they like? I know most people here are probably white middle class, but I am interested in seeing apartments that the Chinese would have lived in.

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

Kai Tak - map 1950/51

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1951
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Sent to me by harrym via email. He wrote:

Cars parked in front of the Supreme Court, 1950s

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

Crop of photo postcard of Statue Square/Supreme Court in the 1950s, showing cars parked in the square. Licence plates can be seen, in the HK nnnn format.

Peak Mansions & Mount Kellett, c.1950

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A photo of Peak Mansions and Mount Kellett in the early Fifties. The Peak Cafe is visible in the foreground, and the ruins of the old Peak Hotel (which stopped operating in about 1936) can be seen on the left. Note that the top of Mount Kellett is intact; the top was removed later on when a reservoir (I think?) was built there.  

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
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