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1900s Looking East (Naval Yard)

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2021-05-03 22:09

Old Naval Dockyard with (possibly) Swimming Baths (Victoria Recreation Club). 

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900
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You keep me hangin' on

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 00:24

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today].

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1934
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Plover Cove pool.jpg

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2020-04-20 03:30
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

Not a good quality photo, I'm afraid. Perhaps it could be enhanced? I think this must be at the bottom of the Plover Cove waterfall and the target of the excursion - an opportunity for a fresh water dip.

1910s Launch Party

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2017-06-26 18:30
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

Gwulo Photo ID: EE065

This photo appears in Gwulo's Talk #3.

At the USRC Kowloon - Aug 1959

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2016-11-19 23:16
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959
Places shown in this photo: 
United Services Recreation Club [????- ]
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Repulse Bay Lido-swimming platform-'Lady Lido'

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2016-01-11 02:47
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935
Places shown in this photo: 
Lido, Repulse Bay [1935-????]

On board the 'Lady Lido'

Repulse Bay hotel-swiming platform-the 'Lady Lido'

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2016-01-11 02:43
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935
Places shown in this photo: 
Lido, Repulse Bay [1935-????]

Rarely seen in photographs of Repulse Bay from the 1930s is the Lido's swimming platform vessel unofficially called the 'Lady Lido'. Complete with a water slide with a sun protection canopy mounted above the slide

Swimsuits1930s.JPG

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2015-11-22 01:29
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1934

Here is another "swimming" photo to comply with David's request. It's one of several of the Warren family taken on Stanley beach in the 1920s and 30s - this time my uncle Leslie Warren and his wife Cicely. I'm baffled as to why they chose such an uncomfortable place to sit for this photo when other photos show plenty of sandy stretches. The road from Windy Gap to Cape d'Aguilar mentioned by gw that was started in 1929 and then restarted in 1933 is visible behind the couple in its second state, as this photo would have been taken around 1933 or 1934.

Jill

Knitted swimsuits(2).JPG

Submitted by jill on Sun, 2015-11-22 01:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1933
Places shown in this photo: 
Stanley Main Beach [????- ]
South Cliff - RBL 147 [1920-1988]

In response to David's request for swimwear photos here is one of two similar shots of my Warren cousins on Stanley Beach in 1932-33. The first shot carries the inscription "Mother knitted these swimsuits for us. We hated them." This snap is taken slightly further to the right from the first and shows a large building in the background. I wonder what it is.

Beach photo.JPG

Submitted by jill on Tue, 2015-11-17 07:50
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

Not sure if this is Stanley beach. The man is simply identified by Diana Warren, the little girl, as "a friend of my parents". The date is probably1928-29.

Jill

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