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Carlton Hotel advert 1958

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1958
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Carlton Hotel [1956- ]

Date Place completed: 
1956-08-01

1960s Carlton Hotel

If you zoom in to the satellite view on the map above, you'll see it's not an obvious place to build a hotel. But read these reviews from the 1950s and 60s, and imagine how it used to be:

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Stag Hotel [????-????]

Copied from http://gwulo.com/node/7242

Actually the Stag Hotel crops up a few times in my book (pages 44, 55, 76 and 91).

Grand Hotel - Queen's Road Central [????-1929]

Date Place demolished: 
1929-01-01

Hong Kong Telegraph - 2 February 1911

"Mr. H.R. Cochrane, accountant of Mercantile Bank of India, fell from the verandah of the bank mess into Queen's Road, opposite the Grand Hotel."

Sadly, Mr. Cochrane died.

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fortuna hotel

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1973
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Kowloon Hotel (4th & current generation) [1986- ]

Date Place completed: 
1986-01-01

Address: 19-21 Nathan Road

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Peninsula Court / Marco Polo Hotel [1957-1982]

Date Place completed: 
1957-08-07
Date Place demolished: 
1982-12-31
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Ambassador Hotel [1960- ]

Date Place completed: 
1960-01-01
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Mount Austin Hotel [1891-1897]

Date Place completed: 
1891-01-01
Date Place demolished: 
1897-01-01
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Rustomjee & Co. / Keying House / The Parsee’s residence [1845-1868]

Date Place completed: 
1845-01-01
Date Place demolished: 
1868-01-01

Manchu dynasty imperial commissioner, Ch'i-ying.

The foreign community's regard for Ch'i-ying as their patron made him a temporary vogue.  A few months later the spacious and commodious premises" of a new British hotel on Queen's Road were christened "Keying House".

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