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Everything tagged "1920s Hong Kong"

1920s Home for the Blind

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
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1920s Sai Ying Pun waterfront

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Notes from Richard Wong on Flickr:

This is Sai Yui Poon where St. Peter's Church, Sailors' Home and Kowloon Wharf, Wing On Wharf were on the praya.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
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1924 Grassy structures near Staunton's Creek

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1924
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1924 Staunton Creek

When: The original owner kindly wrote "Hong Kong 11/3/24" on the back of this postcard. So March or November, depending on their nationality, but definitely 1924.

Where: It is labelled "Aberdeen Harbour", but this part of the harbour was known as Staunton's Creek [2019 Update: Most maps mark it "Staunton Creek", so that's the name I use now.] Jason Wordie provides some background [1]:

1920s Albany Filter Beds

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1920
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Happy Valley Postcard

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1923

This postcard is stamped and dated 1923 in HK. It was sent to London by a friend of my grandfather, John Olson. The arrows inserted cover pencil marks made on the original by the sender to show 13 Broadwood Road and above it 20 Broadwood Road know as The Towers.

The message on the reverse is to announce the sender's forthcoming arrival in London and to remind my grandfather of the good times they had enjoyed at No 13 and No 20. The postcard is in my possession.

It is perhaps some of the experts comparing it with the colour picture posted earlier of unknown date.

1920s Lady in sedan chair

Where:  We're looking west across Statue Square, with Prince's Building on the left, Queen's Building on the right, and Chater Road running between them.

What: The focus of this shot is

1920s Royal Naval Hospital

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The title on Flickr says it is '1920s'. If correct, it should be late in the 1920s, as Morrison Hill in the foreground has already been extensively dug away for the Wanchai reclamation.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929
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1924 Map of Central & Western

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

Click here to see a copy of this map overlayed on a present-day map of Hong Kong, with markers for all the Places we've got more information about.

The map appeared in "Hong Kong, A Brief History and Guide of Hongkong and the New Territories", published by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd in 1924. There's a copy available in the local Royal Asiatic Society's library.

20 Broadwood Road

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1920
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