Submitted by william00179 on Sat, 2021-07-31 16:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1920
My great-great grandparents and great-grandfather (as a child) lived in the house on the left from circa 1911 to 1921 during military service from the UK to Hong Kong.
All we have to go on from family is that it's somewhere on Hong Kong Island.
Any help in identifying where this is would be greatly appreciated! <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1929
In December 1929 the incumbent Governor of the Straits Settlements (Singapore) & High Commissioner of the Federated Malay States, Sir Hugh Clifford , resigned due to the ill health of his wife. The Governor of Hong Kong Sir Cecil Clementi was promoted to this more senior posting, leaving his Hong Kong position in February 1930. The December 1929 issue of Far Eastern Review provided biographies of both of these men, from which this post has been extracted <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1925
From
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: JC01-27. A few minutes later, this ferry arrive at its berth at a pier by the Central District, Hong Kong. Date: 1923-29 <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1920
This image was originally published in the China Mail but reproductions from old newspapers produce a poor image. This scan from an original print of The Far Eastern Review is clearer.. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1926
From
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-081. Image from an album in The National Archives referenced as ‘HONG KONG 3. Views of Hong Kong from the 1860s to the 1920s' (CO 1069-446). The round sign on the electricy pole on the left reads: CARS STOP HERE IF REQUIRED. According to the Hong Kong Observatory, the highest record of daily rainfall ever recorded in Hong Kong, is 534.1 millimetres - the 19th July 1926 rainstorm.<Read more ...>
