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Signal Hill & Lighthouse

Submitted by 80sKid on Sun, 2011-12-18 17:18
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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960
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Signal Hill - Blackhead Point [1907- ]
Blackhead's Hill/Signal Hill Lighthouse [1909- ]
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1960s Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
Tsim Sha Tsui
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1920s Gap Rock Lighthouse

Submitted by David on Wed, 2011-10-05 18:23
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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
Places shown in this photo: 
Gap Rock Lighthouse [1892- ]
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1920s Hong Kong
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Hong Kong
eternal1966
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Gap Rock Lighthouse [1892- ]

Submitted by David on Wed, 2011-10-05 18:21
Date Place completed: 
1892-04-01

(Switch to the satellite view - click here - to get a better view of the lighthouse.)

There is some background on the lighthouse in the comments to this photo on Flickr.

The document "Hong Kong's Lighthouses and the men who manned them" says the light first shone in April 1892, and continued in use until the Japanese invasion in 1941.

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