This photograph was taken 1909-1910 at Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon and shows the just completed Kowloon-Canton railway ( (KCR) track running from left to right across the picture. On the right, is the newly formed junction of Salisbury Road with Nathan Road (This name had only been changed from Robinson Road in 1909). Opposite the junction is a railway level crossing and road which led to the site of Holt's Wharf, which had not yet been constructed in this picture. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1910
Advertisement for Hongkong , Canton & Macao Steamers ferry services from Hongkong to Canton, Macao and Wuchow (梧州Wuzhou) including a photograph of paddle-steamer the S.S.<Read more ...>
Submitted by anonymous-01 on Mon, 2012-11-05 19:28
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1910
This very grainy picture may show on bottom left Elizabeth Olson with her mother Ching Ah Fung at the races in Happy Valley. Above in a boater with a goatee beard is a man who may be my great grandfather John Olson.
Picture is prompted by Liz Chater's post on the fire in 1918.
