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typhoon

Submitted by christoph on Wed, 2010-12-01 04:57
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1927
Places shown in this photo: 
Queen's Pier (1st Generation) [1925-1955]

Typhoon 1927; real photo as post card; on reverse by hand: "Taifun im September 1927 in Hong Kong"

1922 Prince of Wales Visit

Submitted by moddsey on Fri, 2010-11-19 05:41
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1922
Places shown in this photo: 
Queen's Recreation Ground at Causeway Bay [????- ]

Bank of Canton opens tomorrow

Submitted by David on Wed, 2010-11-17 21:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924
Places shown in this photo: 
Bank of Canton [1924-c.1966]

From pages 12 and 6 of The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1924-07-11, viewable online at the HK Public Library website.

Apres Tennis

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Fri, 2010-10-29 19:40
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920

Tennis came up as a subject lately so when I came across this picture which shows the aftermath of tennis at The Towers, 13 Broadwood Road in about 1920 thought I would post it. In right hand corner you can just see racket and perhaps white tennis pumps.

No doubt a drink restored the energy. The man sitting in the middle is my great uncle Charles Olson who seems to be holding a bottle of Johnnie Walker in his hand. The drinks table looks reasonably stocked.

Cherry Ole and car

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Sun, 2010-10-24 19:05
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920
Places shown in this photo: 
Lena Lodge / Enchi Lodge (aka "Cherry 'Ole" or "Cheery 'Ole") [1921- ]

David,

Found this picture with the picture of Cherry Ole so called. Could be my aunt's scrawl and the name may be wrong. Agree the house looks as if it is not quite finished.

This car in driveway may belong to Charles and Ethel or it may belong to owners of house. Man on running board is unknown to me and I don't recall a picture of Charles and Ethel with a car with whitewall tyres.

It does not look cheap so assume the house was unfinished and not falling down if it belonged to owners.

Beach for Europeans/Bungalow by the sea

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Fri, 2010-10-22 19:05
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920

Here are four pictures. I am posting them because David recently speculated that the Bungalow By The Sea posting of some time back might in fact have been at Cheung Chau island. 

Moddsey identified the Beach for Europeans picture I posted some time back and I have had another search and found the three pictures posted here. They show the beach, my great uncle Charles swimming and the headland in the background, he and his wife Ethel on the beach and Ethel posing with a sunshade on what may be a path above the beach.

House at Fan Ling

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Fri, 2010-10-22 18:37
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929
Places shown in this photo: 
Lena Lodge / Enchi Lodge (aka "Cherry 'Ole" or "Cheery 'Ole") [1921- ]

This is another picture I came across from my great aunt Ethel Olson's collection. She notes on the back: ""Taken at Cherry Ole Fan Ling. Spent a week there with friends. Just off for a game of golf."

Seems like the sort of place that somebody might know about.

Family gathering?

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Fri, 2010-10-22 18:32
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925

This is a picture taken at my great uncle and aunt's house at 13 Broadwood Road. Would date to mid 1920s. She is third from left. In an earlier post she is pictured with the man third from the right.

Has anybody a view as to whether it is a family snap - with the Chinese side of the family of which there must have been many though I have never been able to trace any - or a picture of servants. The child is not my aunt's as she never had children but may be one of the other European women pictured.

Thanks.

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