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Water holding tank, Caine Road, Hong Kong

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1968

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: VH03-37. 

Photo by William Pryor Floyd, dated 1868.

Looks as it is an underground tank with grass on top, possibly similar to other tanks like the one on the Peak. On the right, it looks like an inlet for rainwater or the creeks visible on the 1866 map.

View of City from Mid-Levels

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1870

Caine Road Police Quarters

Half way down the retaining wall is a line of coping stones sticking out from the wall. This is the top of the old No 2 Tank that the Caine road was built on top of when it was realigned c1912

 

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1955

Police Station [c.1843-????]

Date Place completed: 
c.1843-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Marked as a Police Station on the 1845 map

Elgin Villa [????-????]

19th Century building South West of Caine/Peel Street Junction [????-????]

The lowest of three terraced buildings built on the hillside between Caine and Robinson Road.

Middle Building here

Upper Building here

 

Previous place(s) at this location: 

Catholic Administration Offices [c.1927-????]

Date Place completed: 
c.1927-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

First appears in 1927 here & here

Previous place(s) at this location: 

Buxley Lodge (2nd Generation) [c.1876-c.1930]

Date Place completed: 
c.1876-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1930-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Previous place(s) at this location: 
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View Looking east from Upper Woodlands Terrace in Mid-Levels

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