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Wanchai from Victoria Park Road

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2011

Taken from the footbridge over Victoria Park Road.

1975 World Trade Centre = 世界貿易中心 hong kong

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1975

Ritz Hotel, Austin Road [c.1947-c.1987]

Date Place completed: 
c.1947-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1987-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

122 Austin Road

I've guessed the dates based on this Google Search, which has the earliest result from 1948 and the latest result from 1987: https://www.google.com/search?q=THE+RITZ+HOTEL+122+Austin+Ave&tbm=bks&so...

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National Hotel [????-????]

There are mentions of John Olson at the National Hotel in the newspaper reports of Annual Licensing sessions:

6 Nov 1878. Renewals of their licenses were granted to all the other applicants, namely, [...]Stag Hotel, Jessie Cook; [...] National Hotel, John Olson; [...]. HK Daily Press.

2 Nov 1880. John Olsen, "National Hotel;" has held a license for 14 years; unopposed ; granted.
The China Mail.

Mee Chow Hotel [????-????]

This is one of the brothel-hotels where westerners were interned by the Japanese in January 1942, before they were moved to Stanley Camp.

Its address is given in the licensing sessions from November 1941:

Yu Tung Wai Mee Chow Hotel 212-214A and 220-226 DesVoeux Road Central 1-4th F
216 and 218 Des Voeux Road Central, whole house
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Metropole Hotel, Ice House Street [1925-????]

Date Place completed: 
1925-08-24

The Hotel Metropole opens on 24th August, 1925. It's a new, six-storey building on the site of the old Carlton Hotel Annexe. They plan to expand by acquiring two floors in Ruttonjee's Building next door.

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1958 Parade at Nathan Rd, Jordan

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1958

1850s impressions of Hong Kong by English visitors reprinted in "The Chater Collection"

I was interested to read the following the accounts of British visitors to Hong Kong in the 1850s reprinted in "Sir Paul Chater. The Chater Collection. Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong," by James Orange, 1924.

The first is by Laurence Oliphant and taken from "The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59":

Park_Hotel_1970

Text on Flickr:

On the east of Chatham Road was a reclaimed site with army camps from 30s to late 60s - the Chatham Camp, shown on the lower part of this picture in a derelict condition. Was it a part of the Gun Club Hill Barracks ?

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1970

Hilton and BoC (June-December 1969)

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