Looking south from the hill at Kowloon Tsai towards Argyle Street. In the centre, Prince Edward Road West runs from left to right intersecting with today's Lomond Road. The 4-storey St. Teresa's Hospital (comparison here from 1940) stands on the southwest corner. Behind the hospital is Argyle Street Barracks. The road at top right is Mission Road (Tin Kwong Road) and leading off it, is the access road to the Central British School/KGV. <Read more ...>
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Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.
In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>
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