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Help with locating this area in Hong Kong

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! 

Extract from 1924 Map showing RBL 80 at Peak Tram Upper Terminus.jpg

Submitted by gw on Sat, 2021-07-10 19:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

Extract from https://gwulo.com/atom/13017.

Please see comments at https://gwulo.com/node/55079

Sir Cecil Clementi - Transfer to Straits Settlements & Malaya -1930

Submitted by Chinarail on Mon, 2021-07-05 12:45
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 

Green Island lighthouse, and a ferry boat in Sulphur Channel, Hong Kong

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-06-30 23:26
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

Railway-street running-pedestrians beware

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2021-06-28 20:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1927

Praya East Reclamation Plan as in May 1920

Submitted by Chinarail on Mon, 2021-06-28 15:32
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..

Sir Ellis Kadoorie death 24:02:1922 HKT p.6.png

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2021-06-11 06:14

1926-1927 View of Ballindae, St. Paul’s Girls’ College, and Union Church (3rd generation)

Submitted by TN Kwok on Wed, 2021-06-09 20:00
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1926

1926-1927 View of Ballindae (bottom left), St. Paul’s Girls’ College (in scaffold), and Union Church (3rd generation).

Flooding caused by the 19th July 1926 rainstorm, Des Voeux Road, Hong Kong

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2021-05-07 23:05
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.

1920s Holy Trinity Church, Victoria Home and Orphanage & Sacred Hill

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2021-05-02 09:32
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920

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