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1928 CMB Schedule

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

East Praya construction locomotives

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1923

This image is believed to be the East Praya contractor's steam locomotives involved in the reclamation works. However the newsprint doesn't actually say so. Similar reclamation works were being done elsewhere around this time, notably at Kai Tak and the land formation for the Kowloon Tong estates using narrow gauge railways with similar contractor's locomotives. The backgound hills may give a clue. The tree in the right seems to be a bit too substantial to be growing on newly reclamation land.

Madame Flint's sale

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Page 11, HK Telegraph, 8 Jul 1924.

1920s Queen's Road Central

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Rat-bin, rickshaw, shoulder-pole

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

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Madame Flint, Queen's Road

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

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Back of postcard

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Eastern Bazaar

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

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Building on Jubilee Street

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

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1920s Queen's Road Central

Where: Looking west along Queen's Road Central. In the distance there's a gable with a circle:

Building on Jubilee Street

That building was on the corner of Jubilee Street, just past the Central Market.

How about the buildings in the foreground, where were those? The first building on the right pins it down:

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