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Tuen-Mun-Castle Peak Bay-1981-panorama

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2016-10-11 21:50
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1982
Places shown in this photo: 
Kadoorie Beach, Tuen Mun, 18-3/4 Milestone [????- ]

In 1982 when living in Tuen Mun at what was called ‘Area 20’, I took the elements of this panorama from the balcony of my apartment.

Left to Right

Panorama from above Conduit Road

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2016-08-19 23:12
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1879
Places shown in this photo: 
Marlingford [????- ]
Cringleford [????-c.1954]
Burnside - Choa family home [1880-????]
Fernside - Robinson Rd - IL 704 [????- ]
"The Hut" [????- ]
"The Den" [????- ]
"The Castle" [1868-????]
Wilderness [????-????]
Seymour Terrace [1855-1993]
Castle Terrace [????-????]
19th Century building South West of Caine/Peel Street Junction [????-????]
P& O Building 2nd Generation [c.1850-c.1885]
Union Church (2nd generation), Staunton St. [1865-1890]
No. 9 Police Station, Caine Road [????-????]
Douglas Villa - IL 151 [1880-????]
Alexandra Terrace [????- ]
Chapel of the Conception / First Roman Catholic Cathedral [1843-1886]
Victoria Prison [????- ]
Spanish Procurator [c.1860-c.1975]
Duddell's / Hunt & Co. / Jardine, Matheson & Co.- ML 100 [1855-1907]
Hongkong Hotel - Queen's Road at Pedder Street [1868-1952]
Pedder Street Clock Tower [1862-1913]
Dent & Co. Hong Kong Praya Property - ML 7 (2nd location) [1863-????]
Club Germania (German Club) (Wyndham St - 2nd location) / French Hotel / Hotel America / Baltimore Hotel / Nippon Club / College Chambers [1872-????]
8 Chancery Lane [c.1850-c.1910]
5 Chancery Lane [c.1850-c.1910]
Buxley Lodge (2nd Generation) [c.1876-c.1930]
On Hing Terrace [????- ]
Mosque (1st Generation) [c.1842-????]
Italian Convent (School) & Rose Hill extention [1860-????]
Rose Hill [1849-????]
Mosque Street/Junction Terraces [c.1848-????]
House named "Glenealy" - IL 57 [????- ]
St. Paul's College / The Bishop's House [1848- ]
City Hall (first generation) [1869-1936]
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
Government House (1st generation) [1855-1942]
College Gardens [????- ]
St Joseph's Building [1882-1988]
Stonehenge - IL 645 [????- ]
Richmond House, Robinson Road [????- ]
Rocklands [????- ]
Telegraph Station [c.1860-????]
Swimming Baths (Victoria Recreation Club) [1866-1900]
North Barracks [c.1846-????]
Former French Mission Building, 1 Battery Path [1919- ]
Murray House - Murray Barracks Officer's Mess [1846-1982]
Murray Barracks [c.1846-1962]
Blue Buildings - Praya East [????-c.1934]
East Point - Jardine Matheson - ML52 [????- ]
Kellett Island [????- ]
Royal Naval Hospital, Wanchai [1873-1949]
Chief Justice's House [1844-????]
1,2,3 & 4 Morrison Hill [????-????]
Police Station, TST [c.1865-c.1882]
Lower Mosque Terrace [????-????]
Upper Mosque Terrace - IL 585 [????-????]
Seymour Terrace West Block [c.1865-c.1955]
Seymour Terrace Lower Block [c.1855-????]

It was taken from above Conduit Road, roughly where Cliff View Mansions is today

My guess for photographer is either John Thomson or Lai Afong. 

I believe the source is the UK national Archives

Please comment with any corrections for the below buildings. 

View from TST at the same time is here: http://gwulo.com/atom/25853


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View of First Arrival of Chinese Expeditionary Force taken from Kowloon

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2016-05-27 11:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
Kellett Island [????- ]
Duddell's / Hunt & Co. / Jardine, Matheson & Co.- ML 100 [1855-1907]
Morrison Hill [????-c.1965]
Old Chinese Village in Kowloon [????-????]
Government House (1st generation) [1855-1942]
Fort Victoria [????-c.1861]
Green Island [????- ]
Kau Yi Chau - Han's Island [????- ]
Stonecutters Island [????- ]

The Kowloon view of the Anglo-French fleet gathering to move on Beijing. 

 

There is another slide to this picture showing Hung Hom to the left.

 

Key:

A Kellet Island with Jardine Matherson’s East point compound behind

B Morrison Hill

C Signal Hill

D Chinese village in Kowloon – anyone know the name

E Government House

F Marine Police Headquarters Hill

G Green island

H Kau Yi Chau

I Stonecutters Island

 

View is opposite direction to this one:

Westend 1880s

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2016-05-24 23:21
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1881
Places shown in this photo: 
Richmond Terrace / Park View / Basilea Terrace, Mid-levels - IL 1216 [c.1880-1954]
Westbourne Villa [????-????]
Sunnyside, Bonham Road [????-????]
Craigellachie [1878-????]
Rheda [????-????]
Ball's Court - IL 694 [????-????]
Berlin Mission / Bethesda Orphanage [1861-????]
Basel Mission Station - IL 629 [1852-1931]
Civil Hospital [????- ]
Hill Road Shanty Town [c.1870-c.1900]
Craigellachie [1878-????]
The Reformatory School and Orphanage [c.1864-????]

The date of this photo is the early 1880's as Richmond Terrace on the top right of this picture has been finished.

Ball's Court is in the centre of the picture with the flag. To the left on the horizon is the Berlin Mission and the road between them  is High Street. The unmodified Civil Hospital building is on the right of the picture. Westbourne Villa is the large colonial house just above the Shanty town in the foreground, its inhabitants regularly complained about the smells coming form this location. 

Westend 1870

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2016-05-24 22:53
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1871
Places shown in this photo: 
Gas Works, Shek Tong Tsui [1864-c.1960]
Ouchterlony Battery, Sai Ying Poon [c.1857-1865]
St Peter's Church, Praya West [1871-1933]
Basel Mission Station - IL 629 [1852-1931]
Civil Hospital [????- ]
Ball's Court - IL 694 [????-????]
Fairlea Girls School [????-????]
Craigellachie [1878-????]
Greenmount [????-????]
Westbourne Villa [????-????]
Sai On Lane Opium Divans [????-????]
Hill Road Shanty Town [c.1870-c.1900]
Sunnyside, Bonham Road [????-????]
The Reformatory School and Orphanage [c.1864-????]

A: Gas Works
B: Ouchterlony Battery Platform is to the left
C: St Peters Church
D: Reformatory School
E: 
F: Civil Hospital Buildings
G: Sunnyside (I forgot to add the letter but it is the large white building between F and H. The two Basel Mission buildings are just ot the left of Sunnyside)
H: Ball's Court
I: Fairlea
To the right of Fairlea is either Avalon or the building to the north of Bonham Road
J: Craigllachie
K: Greenmount
L: Westbourne Villa
M: Sai On Opium Divans

Kowloon panorama 1 from Maclehose Stage 5

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2015-05-09 21:48
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2015

See (lots!) more detail in the photosynth version:

https://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=c522318b-7c83-4f88-ac14-71b96592dcaa

1960s Panorama: Hong Kong at dusk

Submitted by David on Mon, 2012-09-17 14:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1961
Places shown in this photo: 
City Hall (2nd & current generation) [1962- ]

Thanks to David Wu for sending the attached photo, showing a lovely panorama taken just after sunset:

Attached is a photo of the Hong Kong Harbour by night taken in the 50' by a friend of mine in England when he visited Hong Kong as a navy.

I'll guess it was taken a few years later in the early sixties, as I can see City Hall and Harcourt Road.

Regards, David

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