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Kennedy Road - Zetland Hall Foundation stone

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2017-01-02 21:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949
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Mosque Street looking East

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2016-11-30 14:49
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1890
Places shown in this photo: 
Mosque Street/Junction Terraces [c.1848-????]
Belilios Terrace ( IL 714-715 ) [????-????]
Rocklands [????- ]
Benfica - IL 712 [????- ]
Richmond House, Robinson Road [????- ]

This is a picture of Mosque Street, taken from about where Palatial Crest stands today. 

The three rows of buildings in the background going left to right up the hill are Belilios Terrace (1st Generation) and the three houses upper right of Picture from left to right are Rocklands, Benfica and Richmond House. The building in the foreground are tenements on Mosque Street and Mosque junction

Victoria Harbour and Central from Star Ferry (1980)

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-09-18 19:41
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980
Places shown in this photo: 
Jardine House (was 'Connaught Centre') [1973- ]
Central Star Ferry Pier (3rd location, Edinburgh Place) [1957-2006]
General Post Office (current generation) [1976- ]
Mandarin Oriental Hotel [1963- ]

Taken from the Star Ferry Pier TST or from a ferry just after leaving the pier. Despite the opening of the cross-harbour tunnel in 1972, car ferries still operate.

Seymour Terrace West Block [c.1865-c.1955]

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2016-08-24 19:36
Date Place completed: 
c.1865-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1955-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Constructed in the 1860's. In 1949 only the two units on the eastern end of the building survived, where 62C & half of 62D Robinson Road now stand.

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View Looking east from Upper Woodlands Terrace in Mid-Levels

Submitted by Herostratus on Sun, 2016-08-21 15:53
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1875
Places shown in this photo: 
Boulder Lodge [1863-1890]
Union Church (2nd generation), Staunton St. [1865-1890]
Chapel of the Conception / First Roman Catholic Cathedral [1843-1886]
Hotel d'Europe / Government Civil Hospital [????-1878]
33 Caine Road (1900s) [????- ]
Alexandra Terrace [????- ]
19th Century building South West of Caine/Peel Street Junction [????-????]
Unknown building on North Side of Caine Road [????-????]
Married Inspectors' Quarters [1864- ]
Barracks Block, Central Police Station [1864- ]
Club Lusitano - Shelley Street [1866-????]
Victoria Prison [????- ]
Kingsclere / Glenwood - Caine Road - IL123 [1870-????]
8 Chancery Lane [c.1850-c.1910]
5 Chancery Lane [c.1850-c.1910]
Buxley Lodge (2nd Generation) [c.1876-c.1930]
Government House (1st generation) [1855-1942]
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
City Hall (first generation) [1869-1936]
1,000-foot Pier at Wanchai [1872-????]
Swimming Baths (Victoria Recreation Club) [1866-1900]
East Point - Jardine Matheson - ML52 [????- ]
Kellett Island [????- ]

Photo was taken mid 1870's from upper Woodlands Terrace


aa Boulder Lodge
ab Union Church 2nd Generation
ac Unknown building(s) on north side of Hollywood road between Pottinger and Cochrane Streets
ad Catholic Cathedral 1st Generation
ae Hotel D'Europe/Government Civil Hospital

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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Stonehenge second generation(?)

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2016-07-15 03:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1980
Places shown in this photo: 
5-9 Robinson Road [????-????]

Cropped from http://gwulo.com/atom/20959.

Tai Ping Shan Panorama

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 13:17
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1870
Places shown in this photo: 
Dinder [????-????]
No. 8 Police Station (1st Generation) [1870-1895]
Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall/Pak Sing Temple [1851- ]
London Missionary Society Chapel and Nethersole Dispensary [c.1862-c.1895]
Cheung Tseung Tse Mansion [????-c.1920]
Wilderness [????-????]
Craigengower - Victoria English School [????- ]
"The Castle" [1868-????]
"The Den" [????- ]
"The Hut" [????- ]
Glenseskin [????-????]
Unknown / No. 8 Police Station (2nd generation), IL598 [????-1925]
Idlewild - The Red House [????-????]
Beauregard - London Missionary Society (LMS) Compound - IL 590 [????-????]
London Mission Chapter House [????- ]
Tung Hing theatre [1867-1912]
Tung Wah Hospital [1872-????]

View looking East towards Central Mid-Levels from just above the Tung Wah Hospital Site. The labeled buildings are: 

 

A Unknown Building on Bridges Street just to the west of Ladder Street

B Dinder

C Original No 8 Police Station. Just below it is the  Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall

D  London Missionary Society Chapel and Nethersole Dispensary 1881-1895 – chapel  c1862

F ? North of Rozario Street - lot owned by Procurator For the Dominican Missions on IL 421

Cheung Tseung Tse Mansion [????-c.1920]

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-05-26 13:01
Date Place demolished: 
c.1920-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

Appears on 1901 map unnamed 

 

Occupied in 1908 by Cheung Tseung Che, who established  a ship chandelling business with his brother called Messers Robert Jack & Co c1875. Firm is based at No 41 Connaught Road and is the biggest in the colony in 1908

Source: Twentieth century impressions of Hong-Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China, 1908

 

House was supposedly originally occupied by Mr Paul Chater

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