Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
2021
Extract from the Government Gazette, 21 May 1915, p.261 that pinpoints the date when Broadwood Road came into existence and the area that it covered. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1939
This undated photo of Anna Joaquina (Belle) Reed and Maria Rita (da Silva) Reed was probably taken the year Belle married Wilfred Alexander (Willie) Reed on August 21, 1939. They are pictured outside the family home at 8 Broadwood Road, Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
Mr McReynolds either lived next door to 19 Broadwood Terrace in 1926 or next door to 19 Broadwood Road. He also owned a monkey. He is not on Carl Smith nor on the Jurors Lists. It would be useful to verify his actual address in order to confirm the whereabouts of my grandmother, Hannah Warren in 1926, apparently bitten by McReynolds's monkey in one newspaper report. A second newspaper report gave the victim as her daughter-in-law, Cicely Warren and the location Broadwood Road, not Broadwood Terrace. <Read more ...>
"Abdoolhoosen" seems to be an anglicisation of Abdul Hussein, as spelt on one of the Carl Smith cards that references him. The name "Abdoolrahim" is also an anglicisation. A. Abdoolrahim appears on the Jurors List for many years and seems to have worked his way up from clerk to draughtsman to architect. He is credited on the 1903 list of Authorised Architects of Hong Kong and founded his own company, Abdoolrahim & Co., 34 Queen's Road Central, which also employed other architects. <Read more ...>
John and Gertrude Tully were living at 8 Broadwood Road at the time of the death of my grandfather, Charles Warren, in June 1923 and, as neighbours, it is not surprising that they attended his funeral together with their colleagues the Cossarts who lived at no. 22. Asiatic Petroleum, for whom John Tully and Louis Cossart worked, rented several houses in Broadwood Road at the time. Tully came to Hong Kong as a marine engineer. He first worked for the Whampoa Dock Co. and later Taikoo Docks. He retired back to England in 1934. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1949
This photo was taken in the garden of a house in Broadwood Road where my Grandparents, William and Elsie Paterson, lived from 1947 to 1949. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1929
This is a second view from 19 Broadwood Road, taken about a year later than the previous one. It's captioned "View of the Peak from the Bungalow". There seems to be a road faintly visible across the mountain in the background. What is this? Not as many buildings are visible as in the earlier photo, but it would be interesting to know what they were. I'm not sure what the occasion was for the children to be dressed up like this. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1928
Nona Pio-Ulski has posted several lovely 1960s(?) photos of 22 and 23 Broadwood Road, built a decade or more later than the seven previous houses in the road, including the recently mentioned no. 21.
I’ve dug out a couple of 1920s photos of my Warren cousins taken from 19 Broadwood Road, but from slightly different positions and a year or so apart. Gwulo experts may be able to identify the buildings that are visible in the background. The date of this photo would be early 1928, judging from the children's ages.
