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Peak view 1953/54

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2016-11-02 01:52

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

1953

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1950 Cenotaph

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-10-23 01:24

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

1950

Places shown in this photo:

The Cenotaph [1923- ]

Queen's Pier (1st Generation) [1925-1955]

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1950 Peak chair

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-10-23 01:14

I think that's at the old Peak Road, possibly next to the Peak Tram Upper Terminal. <Read more ...>

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

1955

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Leaving Kai Tak 1966

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2016-10-17 01:44

Kwun Tong with Shell oil tank farm.

Remark on Flickr: Photographer: G. Larson <Read more ...>

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

1966

Places shown in this photo:

Shell tank farm at Kwun Tong [1947-1991]

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1937 Typhoon damage

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-09-22 22:37

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

1937

Places shown in this photo:

Osaka Shosen Kaisha (O.S.K.) Wharf / Custodian Wharf [????-????]

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1964 View from the Peninsula hotel

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-09-22 22:27

KCR railway tracks in front. <Read more ...>

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

1964

Places shown in this photo:

Holt's Wharf [1910-c.1971]

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Sailing Junk 1969

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-09-22 02:50

Text on Flickr: I'm not one to get too excited over "picturesque" photos of junks in HK, but I did think this was a very nice shot, taken in October,1969 <Read more ...>

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

1969

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Taxidermists in Hong Kong

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Tue, 2016-09-20 18:56

Please can any gwulo member tell me if they know of any taxidermists in Hong Kong in the 19th and 20th Centuries and where the records of these taxidermists might be? <Read more ...>

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Hong Kong, Feb.1946

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2016-09-16 03:42

Text on flickr: It is somewhere near the Telegraphy Bay at Pok Fu Lam. The island at the front is Lamma Island. <Read more ...>

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

1946

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Hong Kong Panorama,1970

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-09-15 03:51

Amazing (or frightening) how careless smoke was released into the air in these years. Right hand side is North Point Power Station, and on the Kowloon Peninsula Green Island Cement Works emitted even more smoke. <Read more ...>

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

1970

Places shown in this photo:

North Point Power Station [1919-c.1981]

Green Island Cement Works, Hung Hom [1898-????]

HKVDC HQ (3rd generation, Happy Valley) [1951-1995]

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