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Everything tagged "1920s Hong Kong"

Kowloon Tong Garden City Plan Page 2

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1922
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Kowloon Tong Garden City Plan Page 3

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1922
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1920s Happy Valley Racecourse

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1920

1920s Happy Valley Racecourse Building

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1923

c.1925 Happy Valley

Where: Looking south along Wong Nei Chung Road in Happy Valley. On the left of the road is the racecourse, while behind the walls on the right are several cemeteries.

The ornate stone gateway in the right foreground was the entrance to St Michael's Roman Catholic Cemetery. The cemetery is still there, but we've lost the old wall and gateway to a later road-widening:

Tram

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1925

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Man

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1925

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Building

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1925

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1920s Tram Accident

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1920

1920s Nathan Road

For any Blue Peter fans reading. "Here's one I prepared earlier". We started our family summer holiday yesterday, so there'll be a break in posting new photos for a few weeks. We're back to Hong Kong in mid-August.

Where: Looking south along a deserted Nathan Road.

On the left edge of the photo is a tree that marked the junction with Carnarvon Road. Looking further along can see a gap between the two buildings. That's the turning into Mody Road.

Here's how it looks today:

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