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Submitted by jamesho on Fri, 2021-05-14 11:02

HKRS156-1-11657

Coronation Procession

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2021-05-14 00:07

Unknown location.

There was a Tai Wo Compradore on Hankow Road, but this doesn't look like this street. Possibly power lines of the tram are on the photo.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1953
Tags: 
queen elizabeth
QE2 coronation

1954 Sai Ying Pun waterfront

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2021-05-13 21:33

Shows the former West Point Godowns and in front of the godowns Jardine's Wharf.

And a ship with the Union Jack at the side.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1954
Tags: 
sai ying poon
pier
godown

Shek Tong Tsui Godowns (1950s) and map (1905)

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-05-12 22:22
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1955

Photo cropped from Aerial of Sai Ying Pun 1950s, the map from 1905 in on Gwulo.

Along Connaught Road (after 1900s reclamation), godowns were built in Sai Ying Pun and Shek Tong Tsui (the border between the two districts is a bit east of the "o" in Connaught on the map). 

Camphor Wood Carving detail

Submitted by jjohnantonsmith on Sun, 2021-05-09 23:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1951

This is a detail of a larger camphor wood panel. I asked the man carving it if he could carve his name and the name and address of the shop on the right side. I have never had these letters translated, so I have no idea what they say.

To see an image of the whole panel and read the rest of its story, click here.

Camphor Wood Carving in Hong Kong 1951

Submitted by jjohnantonsmith on Sun, 2021-05-09 23:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1951

I asked my father, Raymond Smith, if he would arrange for me to see a woodcarving workshop. He took me along to a shop which sold camphor wood chests and we went down to the basement and I was introduced to a worker who was very young.

1959 1:600 Dairy Farm

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2021-05-09 15:03
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959

Cropped from HKMS map:

Sheet No. / Title
1:600 212-SE-7 (Ed 1959)

The map shows two of Dairy Farm's old silage silos:

40 RM Commando Ceremonial Parade 10th March 1950

Submitted by fivestar on Thu, 2021-04-29 17:29

I believe the location is the Hong Kong Cricket Club?

1956 Dairy Farm Silo, Pok Fu Lam Road

Submitted by moddsey on Tue, 2021-04-27 13:38
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1956

1950s HSBC

Submitted by lsmall on Fri, 2021-04-23 23:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

View of the original HSBC headquarters from the harbour, with Queen's Pier in front and Prince's Building to the side, taken in the 1950s.

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