Taken from today's Mount Austin Road (formerly called Peak Road). The smoke is from the upper terminus of the peak tram. The four coolies seem to carry a barrel or something like that. <Read more ...>
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A photograph of part of Hong Kong taken in 1923 - note the recently built Cenotaph commemorating the dead of the Great War. This was in fact constructed in 1923, and is almost an exact replica of the Cenotaph in Whitehall, London which was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944). <Read more ...>
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