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1978 Marine Department

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1978

Hong Kong, Wah Fu Estate, Government Low Cost House

Most likely from 1974. On the lefthand side is Kellett Bay / Kai Lung Wan [????- ], still a bay at that time.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1974

1972 Ladder Street

Colonial Postbox (King Edward VII) on the corner beside Man Mo Temple.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1972
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Chinese liner GUANGHUA-ex HIGHLAND BRIGADE

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1973

Moored off Stonecutters Island

P&O liner on its way for scrapping-Orient Overseas liner-which one?-1970s

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

I took this picture from Tsing Yi Island during the early to mid-1970s.

The rear vessel is recalled as being the P&O liner ARCADIA on its way to be scrapped in Taiwan.

The black-topped funnel identifies it.

The front vessel is one of CY Tung’s ‘Orient-Overseas’ liners-But which one?

It has the look of one of the New Zealand shipping company’s liners

Russian liner-1970s-which one?

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

This Russian liner I photographed from a harbour ferry in the 1970s. It is ex British Cunard line, but its name is not quite readable, not helped by the Russian way of presenting names. I’m presuming the image has not been posted the wrong way around!

Russian merchant ships often visited the dockyards at Hung Hom for maintenance and repair. The local newspapers claimed these were an excuse for spying missions in the colony as there were major dockyards in the Soviet Far East they could have used.

An internet search offers the choice of two Cunard vessels:-

Market Row (Ship Street)

Another one for the stair experts.

Identified as Ship Street at the corner with Queen's Road East.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1974
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1972 View from Stubbs Road

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1972

1972 Victoria Barracks

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