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1930s Aerial view over Statue Square

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Look at the cricket pitch all laid out as tennis courts. Was there a tennis season and a cricket season, or was it tennis in the week and cricket at the weekends?

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
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Tai O-Lantau Island-2

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1965
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Tai O-Lantau Island-1

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1965
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Eastern New Territories? but where?-now identified as Sai Wan Beach

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1967
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The embossed printing date on the edge of this image says August 1967. But where is this idyllic place. Does it still exist? The eastern NT is a guess.

Hung Hom

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1975

Hung Hom peninsula after the dockyard closed. The dockyard's staff-quarters blocks, old and new, are in the centre along with the obligatory company team's lawn bowls green, and a swimming pool. Dyer Avenue and a CLP sub-station that still exists are on the right. In the foreground Tai Wan Shan swimming pool complex that also still exists. Most of this area is now covered by the Whampoa Gardens estates. 

1930s Kai Tak Airfield

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Over on Flickr, poster eternal1966 asked if anyone knew the name of the street running along the side of the nullah (drainage channel). Here are some maps of the area, to see if they help answer the question.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
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Possible Rose Garden Hotel

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1964
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Hong Kong harbour 1944 or 45

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Probably a US Air Force surveillance image as a sequence code appears top left and there is very little activity in the harbour. IDJ

Chatham Road reclamation-Tsim Sha Tsui central area 1935

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935

Enlarged as requested. IDJ

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