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Everything tagged "aerial photographs"

1910s Mount Austin Barracks

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910
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1945 Wanchai

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

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Here is a photo of bomb-scarred western end of Wanchai taken in 1945. The two major buildings on the waterfront (i.e. Gloucester Rd) are the former China Fleet Club on the cormer with Arsenal St and the Sailors' Home and Missions to Seamen on the corner with Fenwick St. The Chinese Methodist Church at the junction of Hennessy and Johnston Rd is in the centre of the photo.

What a bleak view of Wanchai, no sign of people or transportation. Was the photo taken during a bombing raid, sending everyone to find cover?

Kai Tak

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

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Date is a guess

Notes from moddsey:

Kai Tak airport area

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2008

Kai Tak airport area

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1954

Kai Tak airport area

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1944

1930s Kowloon Wharves

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

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The three circular oil tanks of the Admiralty Oil Depot can be seen in the top left corner of the photo. The photo is dated as belonging to the 1930s but could well have been taken from a later period.

With reference to the 1930s Jordan Rd Reclamation, the 1931 Public Works Annual Report mentions that 'the reclamation under construction in connection with the vehicular ferry berth on the south side of Jordan Rd is upwards of two acres in extent and abuts on the western boundary the Admiralty Oil Depot.'

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