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Slaughter Houses

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-10-27 15:27
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924
Places shown in this photo: 
Slaughter Houses [????-????]

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Factories

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-10-27 15:27
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924
Places shown in this photo: 
Rope Works, Kennedy Town [1884-????]
Kennedy Town Glassworks / Temporary Plague Hospital [????-????]

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Hospitals

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-10-27 15:22
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924
Places shown in this photo: 
Tung Wah Plague Hospital [????-????]
Kennedy Town Police Station / Infectious Diseases Hospital, Victoria Road [????- ]

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Roads

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-10-27 15:14
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

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1924 Map of Kennedy Town

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-10-27 15:10
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924

This map appears in the book "Hongkong - A brief history and guide of Hongkongand the New Territories", published by Kelly and Walsh in 1924.

There is a copy of the book in the RAS collection, viewable at the Hong Kong Public Library, or you can view the full map online at: http://gwulo.com/1924-map-hong-kong-western

Green Island lighthouse

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2013-10-27 15:07
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1924
Places shown in this photo: 
Green Island [????- ]
Green Island Lighthouse [1875- ]

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Mabel

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-09-20 12:04
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

Barbara Anslow writes:

Here is a photo of Mabel when she was 5, taken in 1928 at a photographer's shop (I think called Ming Yuen) which functioned somehow in premises at the top of Battery Path, built out from the path, next to the French Mission.   

Barbara aged 9

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-09-20 12:00
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

Barbara Anslow writes:

Here is a photo of me taken in 1928 aged 9.

Naval Dockyard

Submitted by Admin on Fri, 2013-09-20 10:59
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1927
Places shown in this photo: 
Royal Naval Dockyard [????-????]

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1920s Swimming at Repulse Bay

Submitted by David on Sat, 2013-09-14 20:00

Where: We're swimming again, but this time it's at Repulse Bay. The big building on the left is the old Repulse Bay Hotel, looking out over its gardens to the beach, and the sea beyond:

Hotel

When: The hotel was opened on the 1st of January, 1920 [1], so it must be later than that. Not too much later though, judging by the look of the

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