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St. Joseph's College Branch School 聖若瑟書院分校

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-09-25 16:15

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St. Joseph's College Branch School 聖若瑟書院分校 /

The predecessor of La Salle College, the mother school of Bruce Lee.

Built in 1917, now Windsor Mansion 29-31 Chatham Road South

Brother Aimar was the man whose vision and courage led to the eventual establishment of La Salle College. In the 20's, the Government encouraged people to buy land around Kowloon Tong and to set up a residential area. The shift of the Portugese Community from Hong Kong Island made the establishment of a Catholic school there imperative..............

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925
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Baskets on a shoulder pole

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2020-09-25 09:24

This 1927 photo shows baskets hanging from a shoulder pole. We'll meet the people who used these poles, and take a closer look at the wide variety of loads they carried.

Detail cropped from page 29 of the new Volume 4 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell. The book will be available in November 2020.

Kowloon air view TST 1927-28

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-09-25 03:05

On Flickr the date given is 1934. 

I'm quite sure that the date is 1927 or early 1928. Peninsula Hotel was finished in 1927, and the tower on Signal Hill received a coupola in the second quarter of 1928 - it's not on the photo.

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

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2020-09-22 16:31
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

The house on the hilltop in this c.1929 photo was demolished by the Japanese during their occupation of Hong Kong in the 1940s. They buried a valuable historic relic at the site, and it is believed to still be there today!

Detail cropped from page 22 of the new Volume 4 of 'Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.

Cameron Road “Camp”.

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2020-09-21 03:17
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

Hong Kong Daily Press from

c.1929 Blake Garden Pavilion

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2020-09-19 10:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

Detail cropped from page 18 of the new Volume 4 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.

Wedding in Shanghai, Philip Harding Klimanek and Zoia Serjevna Kojevnikova, 1922

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Wed, 2020-09-16 00:20

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): 
1922
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c.1929 Idlewild

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2020-09-15 18:14
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

Detail cropped from page 13 of the new Volume 4 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell'. The book will be available in November 2020.

circa 1915 Florence Neave and friends.jpg

Submitted by edwardalder on Mon, 2020-09-14 11:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925

This is Florence Agnes Neave with friends. It appears to be Happy Valley. Daugther of Thomas Neave. Florence was born in Hong Kong on 18 October 1907 and lived here until the mid 1920s. She is my grandmother.  

Sailing junk in a misty harbour

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2020-09-11 14:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1929

Detail cropped from page 9 of the new Volume 4 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell. The book will be available in November 2020.

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