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. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
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). <Read more ...>
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. <Read more ...>
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.<Read more ...>
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. <Read more ...>
