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1930s Racecourse and Morrison Hill

Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2014-02-08 17:53
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
Places shown in this photo: 
Happy Valley Racecourse [1846- ]
Morrison Hill [????-c.1965]

1930s S. S. Rajputana in Victoria Harbour

Submitted by moddsey on Sat, 2014-02-08 17:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936

1932 National Commercial & Savings Bank Building site acquired

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-02-01 11:34
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1932
Places shown in this photo: 
National Commercial & Savings Bank Building / Kwok Man House [1933-????]

Clipping from page 14, China Mail, 1932-04-30

1933 National Commercial & Savings Bank Building opens

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-02-01 11:32
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1933
Places shown in this photo: 
National Commercial & Savings Bank Building / Kwok Man House [1933-????]

Clipping from page 5, China Mail, 1933-04-19

1930s Happy Valley Military Parade

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2014-01-30 07:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935
Places shown in this photo: 
Morrison Hill [????-c.1965]
Happy Valley Racecourse [1846- ]

Happy Valley Nullah in the foreground

1937 Bank of East Asia Building

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2014-01-30 06:42
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937
Places shown in this photo: 
Bank of East Asia Building (2nd Generation) [1935-1980]
National Commercial & Savings Bank Building / Kwok Man House [1933-????]

Coronation of King George VI

c.1930 View over Central from Peak

Submitted by David on Mon, 2014-01-27 14:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
Places shown in this photo: 
Former Central Police Station (CPS) compound [????- ]

Photo courtesy of Tony Clark:

The photo came into my possession when a friend died a couple of years ago – his widow didn’t know anything about how he came to have them and passed them on to me. They were taken by someone in a Royal Engineers Unit on its way to Shanghai – they obviously stayed some time in Hong Kong (at Shamshuipo, I think) before moving on.

I've guessed the date to be c.1930, as the HK Hotel North wing isn't visible, but the Gloucester Building hasn't replaced it yet.

Regards, David

1934 Ford or 1935 Triumph

Submitted by marlowe on Mon, 2014-01-27 05:10

c.1937 Des Voeux Road near HSBC

Submitted by David on Sat, 2014-01-25 16:00

Where: We're looking west along Des Voeux Road in Central, with HSBC on the left, Prince's Building and Statue Square on the right.

When: This is another photo from the serviceman's album that he'd dated 1945, but was actually taken several years earlier. Let's see if any of the buildings can help narrow down the date.

This facade shows a very new-looking "The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation":

HSBC

The building opened in 1935 [1], so the photo was taken after that.

This view also confirms it can't be a 1945 photo, as

Workers

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2014-01-25 11:20
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937

Detail cropped from this photo:

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