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Royal Buildings North / Cecil Hotel [1904-1954]

Submitted by Herostratus on Mon, 2016-07-18 18:30

Date Place completed:

c.1904-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Date Place demolished:

c.1954-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

Royal/ Chung Tin buildings

Inland Lot 1724, secured July 1900

Architect was Leigh & Orange

Phase 1 (King Edward Hotel end) completed in 1902, leased to Dhunjeebhoy Dorabjee, severely damaged by fire in March 1929

Rebuilt as office block which opened in 1931 (original façade kept), rebuilt portion renamed Chung Tin Building

Phase 2 completed in 1904, lower five floors leased to Lane Crawford until 1924

After 1924 building was leased as Hotel Savoy which became Hotel Cecil <Read more ...>

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National Hotel, IL 12A [????-????]

Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-06-30 15:21

Jill writes:

In 1859 the National Hotel appears to consist of three tenements “on I.L. 12 A west of Aberdeen Street”, also given in another item as “I.L. 12 A, Queen’s Road.”

An 1856 map (Plate 3-1c, Mapping Hong Kong) shows Inland Lot 12A is the block of land between Queen's Road and Wellington Street, to the west of the Aberdeen Street steps, shown by the marker above. <Read more ...>

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YMCA, TST (Second & current generation) [1992- ]

Submitted by David on Wed, 2016-05-11 12:47

Date Place completed:

c.1992-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

41 Salisbury Road, TST.

1992 completion date shown on the YMCA website, and the website of Hsin Chong who built it:

1992
YMCA Redevelopment, Tsim Sha Tsui
The project included the construction of a 16-storey multi-functional building with 398 hotel rooms. <Read more ...>

Previous place(s) at this location:

YMCA, TST (First generation) [1925-c.1990]

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Whitfield Police Station / Bay View Hotel / Bay View Police Station - 20 Shaukiwan Road [????-????]

Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 2016-04-17 08:33

From the Public Records Office:

1893 - From the Bay View Hotel, Application for an extention to the present lease.

1898 - Request permission by Mr. J. W. Osborne to sublet the Bay View Hotel

1903 Feb - Recommends the removal of the private reservoir behind the Bay View Hotel, or prohibition of the neighbouring Gardens

1903 - Oct - Re-occupation of the Bay View Hotel by the Police (From AG.Capt. Supt. of Police)

Various directories: <Read more ...>

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Hong Kong - The Peninsula

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2016-04-04 22:34

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My brother David and I stayed in the Peninsula Hotel during our week in Hong Kong. The hotel is in Kowloon, on the mainland side. Our room was on the side closest to the camera. It might have been on the fifth floor, closer to the front (left) than the back. We could see some of the harbor from our room. <Read more ...>

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

1967

Places shown in this photo:

The Peninsula Hotel [1927- ]

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