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Stag Hotel Hong Kong Daily Press page 1 23rd September 1902.png

Submitted by eurasian_david on Sun, 2020-10-11 04:43
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1902

Observatory Villas 1908

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2020-09-03 00:24
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1908

Cropped from 1908 Chatham Road

Shows Observatory Villas in the front row. Behind these (right hand side) Rosary Church and St Mary's Canossian School. 

1900s TST Chatham Road

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2020-09-02 03:04

Observatory Villas under construction, St. Mary's Canossian School right behind.  Gun Club Hill Barracks on the hill.

Has a date: 1903-09-13

Looks like bricks on the left for future buildings.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1901
Tags: 
TST
Canossian
Chatham Road

1906 TST Kowloon Wharves

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-09-01 04:11

SS Petrarch at Kowloon Wharves after the 1906 typhoon.

There is a view from the opposite direction:

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1906
Tags: 
1906 Typhoon
kowloon wharves

Rail Dump Car used for transporting fill to the Hung Hom Bay Reclamation

Submitted by Chinarail on Sat, 2020-08-29 10:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1909

Dump Car utilized for the Hung Hom Bay Reclamation in 1909. A huge tract of land was being formed for the Kolwoon-Canton Railway's tracks, the Kowloon terminus as well as siding and a depot

Rail Dump Car at the No.1 Cutting excavation site at Hung Hom

Submitted by Chinarail on Sat, 2020-08-29 10:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1909

A  rail Dump Car utilized for the Hung Hom Bay Reclamation in 1909. A huge tract of land was being formed for the Kolwoon-Canton Railway's tracks, the Kowloon terminus as well as siding and a depot.

This particular picture show one car being loaded at the excavation site for a rail cutting at Hung Hom. The fill would then be transported  by rail and dumped into Hung Hom Bay for the KCR Reclamation..

Construction Work on the Kowloon-Canton Railway

Submitted by Chinarail on Sat, 2020-08-29 10:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1909

This series of photos shows various operations in connection with the track bed formation for Kowloon-Canton Railway in Kowloon.

Hung Hom Bay - Reclamation for KCR ( & Electric Power Station)

Submitted by Chinarail on Thu, 2020-08-27 16:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1909

The scene of the Hung Hom Bay reclamation in 1909 where an extensive tract of land was being reclaimed from the sea for the Kowloon-Canton Railway’s tracks to a Kowloon terminus as well as for a railway depot, sidings and shunting yards. On the left of the photo are two buildings, one with a tall chimney stack, which was the site of Kowloon's first electricity plant, completed in 1903. 

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Submitted by wcfreeman on Sun, 2020-08-09 21:53
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1916

Wanchai Road & Tin Lok Lane c1900

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2020-07-28 22:01
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1901

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