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Bowrington praya hong kong

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1901

1962 Wanchai waterfront

This one shows two ferry piers, probably one on Stuart and one on Tonnochy Streets.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1962

1850/60's Praya Reclamation - Buildings along the new shoreline

The extent of the 1850/60's Praya Reclamation is shown in https://gwulo.com/node/40695.

There it says:

1937 Typhoon damage

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937

Hong Kong New Year card 1880s

Text on Flickr:

With no apologies for Victorian racial stereotyping, the doggerel verse at the bottom of the card reads:

 "To Topside Hill from where my stand

My look see plenty Hong so new

My neva have see place mo gland

And neva talke thing mo true

My look the roads, the ship, the tree

And thinkee my no place have see

So nice Hong Kong"

 The paint palette on the left has written on it, "A happy new year to you".

 On the reverse is a handwritten message:

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1875

Chinese Customs vessel moored off Kowloon City Praya-1938

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938

Not many pictures from this angle of an area of Kowloon City on the right hand side that was to be raised to the ground by the Japanese to extend Kai Tak aerodrome in 1942. The Central British School ( now KGV) is prominent in the background

Butterfield & Swire Offices

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1957
Places shown in this photo: 

Kowloon Praya

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1890

Kowloon Praya, Picture taken by a German, year unknown, on reverse written by hand: "Koflung b. Honkong" (in German) - i.e. "Kowloon near Hong Kong"

1945 Praya & GPO

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