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1986 - Wanchai naval pier - US submarine

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Wed, 2016-07-13 08:00
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1986

First Wanchai Police Station [c.1840-c.1847]

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2016-05-27 14:54
Date Place completed: 
c.1840-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1847-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Appears on the 1845 Collinson map. Demolition date set when new police station opened in Queen's Road East.

Tags: 
Police Station
wanchai

Panorama of Hong Kong, taken from Happy Valley Beato and J Hentry Hering

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2016-05-27 14:07
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
Exchange Building / Court House (later Supreme Court) [1843-1921]
Headquarters House / Flagstaff House [1846- ]
Murray House - Murray Barracks Officer's Mess [1846-1982]
Murray Barracks [c.1846-1962]
Duddell's / Hunt & Co. / Jardine, Matheson & Co.- ML 100 [1855-1907]
North Barracks [c.1846-????]
Wellington Barracks / HMS Tamar [????-????]
St Francis Hospital (1st location) [????- ]
Eastern Market [????-????]
Hung Shing Temple, Wanchai [c.1847- ]
Spring Gardens (the 19th C. house) [????- ]
Seaman's Hospital [1843-1873]
Kuhlan Monument (1st location) [1855-1934]
Chief Justice's House [1844-????]
The Hospital of the Medical Missionary Society 傳道會醫院 [1843-1853]
Morrison Education Society School [1842-1849]
East Point - Jardine Matheson - ML52 [????- ]
Matheson's Bungalow - East Point Hill [????- ]
No 2 Building Jardine's East Point [????-????]
Chinese Houses/Warehouses on Leighton Road [????-????]
Former #1 Police Station, Leighton Road [1853-????]
Bowrington Old Bridge [????-????]
Happy Valley Racecourse [1846- ]
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley [1848- ]
House at Broadwood/Link Road junction [????-????]
Mercer's House [c.1842-????]
Kellett Island [????- ]
Signal Hill Battery / Blackhead Fort [????- ]
First Wanchai Police Station [c.1840-c.1847]

Completing the Felice Beato Panoramas is this one taken from above Happy Valley, probably from the Police Station that existed there. The photo is also credited to J Hentry Hering

 

Key

 

A: unknown building, I think located around Caine and Aberdeen

B: St John’s Cathedral

C: Augustine Head (Beaconsfield)

Between C& D is headquarters house

D: Murray Barracks

E: George Duddell Building, Offices of Thomas Hunt and Co? later Jardines

F: North Barracks

Panorama of Hong Kong from Government House, showing the Fleet for North China Expedition

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 19:08
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
Chapel of the Conception / First Roman Catholic Cathedral [1843-1886]
Harbour Master's House /Pedder's Hill [1841-????]
Zetland Hall (1st generation) - "The Bungalow" - IL 34 & IL 31 [1853-1865]
Commercial Bank of India [c.1843-c.1866]
Central Market (1st generation) [c.1840-????]
Turner & Co [c.1843-????]
Bowra & Co [c.1843-????]
Royal engineers Office [c.1843-????]
Exchange Building / Court House (later Supreme Court) [1843-1921]
Hong Kong Club building (1st generation) - IL 16 [1846-????]
Post Office Building -Queens Road Central - 1st Generation [1846-c.1864]
Rustomjee & Co. / Keying House / The Parsee’s residence [1845-1868]
24 / 26 / 28 / 30 / 32 Queen's Road Central [1862-1920]
Crosby's Store / Lane Crawford (1st location) [????-1901]
Mercantile Bank of India [c.1882-????]
Russell & Co [????-????]
Harbourmaster's Office (1st Generation) [????-c.1868]
Wardley House/HSBC Headquarters Building (1st Generation) [1857-1882]
Murray Battery [c.1841-1947]
HK Cricket Club pitch (1st location) [1851-1975]
Former French Mission Building, 1 Battery Path [1919- ]
Royal Battery, Central [c.1846-c.1884]
Central Government Offices [1848-1955]
North Barracks [c.1846-????]
Murray House - Murray Barracks Officer's Mess [1846-1982]
Murray Barracks [c.1846-1962]
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
Headquarters House / Flagstaff House [1846- ]
Scandal Point [????- ]
East Point - Jardine Matheson - ML52 [????- ]
Kellett Island [????- ]
Seaman's Hospital [1843-1873]
Officers Quarters & Bungalow [c.1843-????]
Kennedy's Horse Repository - Garden Road [????- ]
Telegraph Station [c.1860-????]
HSBC Manager's House and Sub-Manager's House - IL 580 [1861-1935]
Duddell's / Hunt & Co. / Jardine, Matheson & Co.- ML 100 [1855-1907]
Wellington Barracks / HMS Tamar [????-????]
Kellett Island [????- ]
Signal Hill Battery / Blackhead Fort [????- ]
Dent & Co. - Queen's Rd (1st location) [1841-????]
Victoria Buildings (North Building) [c.1860-1922]
Victoria Buildings (South Building) [c.1860-1924]

So much in this picture

The date is Thursday 1st March 1860 (can anyone tell the time from the shadow position of chimneys on Building F?) , all the ships and soldiers in the harbour are off to burn Beijing down to the ground because of interference in the European Opium  trade.... How many ships are there?

The Building key, corrections welcome.  

References mainly taken from the Map of A.F. Alves 1862

 

A Roman Catholic Cathedral – being reconstructed after a fire

 

B Wellington Street

 

1983 - Wanchai and Causeway Bay from the Peak

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Fri, 2016-05-06 16:04
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1983
Places shown in this photo: 
Bank of America Tower [1975- ]

1982 - Wanchai rooftops

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Fri, 2016-04-29 21:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1982
Places shown in this photo: 
The Blue Block, #74 Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai [1922- ]
Wanchai Market (2nd generation) [1937-2009]

1982 - Wanchai rooftops

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Fri, 2016-04-29 21:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1982
Places shown in this photo: 
The Blue Block, #74 Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai [1922- ]

1930s-Hennessy-Rd

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2016-04-20 22:46

Attributed to Hedda Morrison.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935
Places shown in this photo: 
Eastern junction of Hennessy and Johnston Roads [????- ]
Tags: 
wanchai
heddamorrison
hennessy road
Rickshaw

1920s Tram line at Wanchai

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-04-17 02:14

Comment on Flickr:

maidestone :Junction of Johnston Road and Wanchai Road.
 

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
Places shown in this photo: 
Junction of Fleming, Johnston, and Wanchai Roads [????- ]
Tags: 
old
Hong Kong
wanchai

Oriental Theatre 1970's

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-04-14 01:03

Wikipedia states: "Tora! Tora! Tora! (Japanese: トラ・トラ・トラ) is a 1970 Japanese-American war film that dramatizes the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941."

So I think the image dates to about 1970/71.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1971
Places shown in this photo: 
Oriental Theatre [1932-1981]
Tags: 
cinema
theatre
wanchai

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