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春園街 Spring Garden Lane, Hong Kong, c1920

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-12-29 22:03

Text on Flickr:

from the book  "A Selective Collection of Hong Kong Historic Postcards".

Notice the lamp post on the left, with a hanging box to collect dead rats, due to an outbreak of plague.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
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Rat bin

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2021-01-23 16:48
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

Detail cropped from photo: https://gwulo.com/atom/39029

Rat bin in Quarry Bay, c.1910-1912

Submitted by Jamie Carstairs on Wed, 2020-01-29 17:48
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

[Updated location to Quarry Bay, and date to c.1910-12, see comments below.]

Street in Shaukiwan, Hong Kong, c.1910-1913. Image from the Historical Photographs of China web site (www.hpcbristol.net), HPC ref HR01-142. Link: https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/hr01-142. Signs for: ENTRANCE TO THE TAIKOO RECREATION GROUND and FOOK WAH COMPRADORE. Note the rat bin on the lamp post on the right. 

1968 Rat Bin

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2019-05-26 09:59
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1968

Rat bin and ex-rat

Submitted by David on Thu, 2014-09-04 16:55
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2014
Places shown in this photo: 
Bacteriological Institute / Pathological Institute / Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences [1906- ]

Exhibit at the HK Museum of Medical Sciences:

http://www.hkmms.org.hk/

Description reads:

Graduates and senior students from the Hong Kong College of Medicine were employed as assistants to the Government Bacteriologist between 1902 and 1912. Their main duty was the examination of rats at the public mortuary and at the Bacteriological Institute for evidence of plague infection, in order to help in control and prevention of the disease among the community.

Hong Kong Street at night

Submitted by fergusmacdermot on Tue, 2014-07-01 10:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

1928 View down Wellington Street

Submitted by David on Sat, 2013-07-13 18:00

Where: We're on Wyndham Street, looking west along Wellington Street.

What: The signboards along the left side of the street show the

Rat-bin, rickshaw, shoulder-pole

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2012-03-01 21:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Detail cropped from this photo.

c.1935 Hawker, book stall, rat bin

Submitted by David on Fri, 2011-05-20 15:07

What do you see in this photo?

1932 Wellington Street

Submitted by David on Fri, 2010-04-16 17:13
Image (external): 
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Looking down Wellington Street from the junction with Wyndham Street.

The building on the right is the office of the China Mail newspaper. You can just see their name sign peeping out from behind the lamp post.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1932
Places shown in this photo: 
Junction of Wellington & Wyndham Streets [????- ]
"China Mail" Newspaper Office [????-????]
Image Galleries: 
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