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Breaking rocks into stones

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2019-06-27 18:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925

Gwulo photo ID: A231F

c.1925 Unknown Man

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2019-06-23 17:47
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925

[Update May 2020: Previously I guessed this was Antony Bosje, but his grand-daughter has written in to say this is not him.]

Gwulo ref: A231C

Hung Hom Dockyard Quarters.jpg

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2019-06-18 11:45
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920

1927 Peninsula Hotel

Submitted by moddsey on Tue, 2019-06-18 11:43
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1927

Aerial photo of the Pen and nearby side streets of TST.

1920s Repulse Bay Hotel

Submitted by moddsey on Wed, 2019-06-12 13:47
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1921

Laying foundation stone

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2019-05-28 18:27
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

One of the photos from talk #5: https://gwulo.com/node/46051

Philippines to Hong Kong-claimed first flight

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2019-05-28 18:08
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Flicking through the book Trails in Philippine Skies I noticed the above claim which I had not heard of previously.

I can find no other references to this historic flight.

Have any Hong Kong newsprint search Sleuths seen anything that can substantiate this claim?

 It should have made a very big news story at the time. The book is somewhat vague when mentioning the actual year dates of events

1927 Kowloon Naval Yard

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2019-05-26 15:57
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1927

Seaplane Base at the Kowloon Naval Yard. Before the slipway at Kai Tak was developed.

Holland China Trading Company (HCHC) in Hong Kong, 1926

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2019-05-26 14:43

Charles Gesner van der Voort worked at Holland-China Trading Company in 1939. Twenty years earlier, Bob de Vries' father worked for HCHC in Hong Kong. This photo shows the Hong Kong office staff in 1926.

Original caption reads: "Hong Kong 1926 - - Staff of the newly formed Holland China Trading Co. Note the flag of the recently established Nationalist government."

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1926
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Portrait Willem Kien, ca. 1921, Shanghai

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2019-05-25 00:59

Charles worked at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC), with offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tientsin (Tianjin), Rotterdam and London. At the start of the company, in 1903, Willem Kien started to work for HCHC in Shanghai, later becoming director. In 1921 he left China and became director at the Rotterdam head office. 

Courtesy Kien family archives

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1921
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