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MODL5 : AL17 Harcourt Place .png

Submitted by jamesho on Wed, 2021-06-30 20:12

TVB Studios (Broadcast Drive)

Submitted by philk on Wed, 2021-06-30 19:04
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1970

1963.2-HK-Maps-Lai-Chi-Kok-Aerial-views.jpg

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2021-06-20 14:50
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1963

Annotated copy of aerial photo from HKmaps.com, ref: 1963.2

See https://gwulo.com/comment/59596#comment-59596 for explanation of the annotations.

Stela_of_Plover_Cove_Reservoir

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2021-06-17 05:42
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1969

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stela_of_Plover_Cove_Reservoir.jpg

Wrightbus, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons

Photo taken 2007

Phil & Kathy leaving Stonecutters for Home 1963

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-06-09 21:40

Text on Flickr: The Waites heading for the Boat on their way home.

Note the tracks.

More Stonecutters photos here.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1963
Tags: 
Stonecutters Island

Poo Ai Catholic Primary School.jpg

Submitted by Mama on Mon, 2021-05-31 10:29
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1960

Tai Wan Shan area in the 1960’s, showing Poo Ai Catholic Primary School (1958-2008) and St. Mary’s Church. The school is now Caritas Institute of Community Education

1965 Central reclamation

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2021-05-20 23:19

Mid-1960s, the time when drastic changes occured along the waterfront (i.e. Connaught Road). Reclamation works started (extreme right)

From the left

General Post Ofiice

P&O Building (5th generation)

Grand Building

Fung House (first generation)

empty lot (Chinese Club Building will come in 1966)

Heung Lam Building ( a very slim building)

The Chinese General Chamber of Commerce Building

26-33 Connaught Road Central (at least a few of these houses left)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1965
Tags: 
praya central
connaught road
Central Reclamation

Shek Tong Tsui Godowns (1966)

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-05-12 22:39
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

Cropped from Western Wharves 1966.

Most of the godowns from the 1950s are still there, but the whole area will be developed in less than 10 years from then.

Miramar Hotel Fashion Show 1968

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-05-12 00:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1968

Video snap from Out Takes / Cuts From Cp 682 - Reel 2 Of 2 - Hong Kong (1968)

Those were the days, my friend!

 

1963 Des Voeux Road Central

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2021-05-09 10:08
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1963

Wing On owned the buildings on either side of the Liu Chong Hing Bank.

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