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Everything tagged "1930s Hong Kong"

Margrate (Peggy) McDaid Kai Tak airport.jpeg

This is a photo of my husband’s Mom, Margrate (Peggy) McDaid and her friend, Leila (unknown last name), standing in the Kai Tak airport. 

Margrate (Peggy) McDaid and friend at Kai Tak.jpeg

This is the reverse view of the same photo. 

It reads “We rode into Kai Tak and I took this of Leila and Peggy (see Lion Rock in the background?) There was a board at the entrance to the Aerodrome which read “No Admittance”, but we were blind! 

Canton Belle crossing between Kowloon Wharf Co. & KCR terminus-circa 1936-37

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937

This low resolution image came off the internet some years ago.

If this is the rail-crossing noted in the title I can only assume that the railcar may be picking up passengers directly from a Liner and taking them to Fanling for golf or directly to Canton

George Bronson Rea (1869-1936)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1934

George Bronson Rea, an American engineer, journalist , publisher and later mercenary propagandist. Rea first published The Far Eastern Review in Manila in 1904 but soon relocated his head office to the International Settlement in Shanghai. Geo. Bronson Rea, as he was usually known, in his early days in China was sympathetic to the Chinese cause of resisting the foreign powers carving out their “spheres of influence”.

Holy Trinity Church 聖三一堂

Second and third generation Holy Trinity Churches, latter under construction. So the date was set to 1936.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936

HKEC Tennis Club Members

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935

Raymond Smith - centre, front row

1937 Arsenal Yard

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937

Photo taken during the 1937 Coronation showing Arsenal Yard.

RANCHI-P&O liner-Kowloon wharf-1935

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935

Kowloon Wharves

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937

Detail cropped from this photo: https://gwulo.com/atom/35577

1937 Kowloon Riding School Gymkhana

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937

Photos of the gymkhana appeared in the HK Sunday Herald dated 21 November 1937. 

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