I already posted this same photo, but this is a newly digitized scan of the old negative I just had done-the results are dramatically better than the printer scans of the old photos I had been doing-I'm going to send out a lot of my old photos for "freshening up"
Where HK island is just a blur in the old photo scan, this one is quite sharp and clear-note the Peak terminal just under the eaves of the Star Ferry building. This photo was taken in July of 1972 <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
The marker is approximate. However for the accuracy of the then Royal Navy Engineers/Survayers I am pretty sure the stone used to sit exactly on the 114'30" E longitude.
Thanks for JW for this piece of Old News. Back in 2007 archeologists in Shenzhen had discover this stone marker at the tip of the Xichong (西沖)。 It was the boundary marker setup by the British for the seaward boundary concerning the taking (or lease, depends on how you look at it) of the New Territories. <Read more ...>
