Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1935
Source unknown. Construction of tenement blocks on the completed Praya East Reclamation. The Missions to Seamen has been erected but cannot view the China Fleet Club. In the foreground is the section of the waterfront between Luard Road and Fenwick Street. Circa early 1933. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1958
Photograph recently bought on eBay shows Sai Wan (Chai Wan) bay. It was most probably taken from the Tai Tam road above Sai Wan and looking Eastwards across the bay towards Little Sai Wan (Siu Sai Wan) in the left distance. Apologies for the lack of definition but it is a small 127 sized print. The inscription on the back of the photograph (next image) wrongly describes the white streak across the hillside as being a section of the road that runs round the island. It was actually the Cape Collinson Road, that still exists. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1934
On May 14 1934, the sudden collapse of a badly rusted steel gasometer caused a massive leak of coal gas into the air which then ignited. The heat from huge conflagration cause horrendous burns to those in the immediate vicinity and also set a residential building opposite to the site on fire, also burning many people inside. All told, some 42 people died from their burns and other injuries and many more were seriously burned and scarred for life.<Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
2022
Here is a second photo of the mystery plate found in the effects of Cicely Warren and perhaps a leaving gift when she left Hong Kong in 1938. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
2022
Can anyone identify this round metal object which is 15 inches in radius and 21 inches high together with the wooden stand? Likewise the meaning of the Chinese characters and the symbolism of the flower border at the base. It has been found among the effects of Cicely Warren, late widow of my uncle Leslie Warren. It was a heavy item to take to England with her in 1938 when Leslie evacuated his family. Cicely then took it to Canada when she emigrated there after the war. It must have some sentimental significance. <Read more ...>
