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
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
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. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
