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Bailey bridge at Man Kam To 1949

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2020-06-17 00:43
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

Just by chance I found on YouTube a film from 1949 titled  Hong Kong Under The Red Shadow Australia's Northern Frontier (1949)

At the end of this short (2:54) film a man walks across the bridge.

Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Hong Kong, 1940

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2020-06-08 00:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940

From the G. Warren Swire Collection at the Historical Photographs of China website: https://www.hpcbristol.net/visual/sw08-189 (photo slightly enhanced)

Shows the cutting on (toady's) King's Road, Taikoo Terrace already demolished.

Kowloon-Roads renamed

Submitted by IDJ on Mon, 2020-06-01 02:46
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1947

"Clearwater Bay Road, Kun Tong Road and Sai Kung Road ..."

19460907 Graca letter.jpeg

Submitted by rontham on Sat, 2020-05-30 14:40
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1946

See https://gwulo.com/comment/53763#comment-53763 for details.

 

Repatriation Notice No 7-to Australia via HMS Striker-September 1945

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2020-05-30 02:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Shatin Tiger Cub mauling-China Mail

Submitted by IDJ on Fri, 2020-05-29 17:40
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949
Reports of tigers in Hong Kong are usually from the pre-war years. Presumably, this victim apparently a hunter with a gun could recognise the animal as a genuine tiger, and not some other type of indigenous large cat. Transcribed text from poorly reproduced microfilmed newsprint: -

Prayer book made in Stanley Camp ca 1942

Submitted by Bob Tatz on Thu, 2020-05-21 16:51

Cover of a multi-page prayer book made by Sr. St. Stanislas for my Second Communion in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. ca 1942.

Bowen Road Group, circa January 1942

Submitted by Bob Tatz on Thu, 2020-05-21 16:51
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

Photo courtesy of Ruth Sewell-Baker showing the group at the Refo Residence on Bowen Road.

The “Admiral” was named in the book Strange Harmony by William Sewell.

This photo was used on the cover of my own book, Lost in the Battle for Hong Kong.

Prayer book made in Stanley Camp ca 1942-interior

Submitted by Bob Tatz on Thu, 2020-05-21 16:51

Interior of a multi-page prayer book made by Sr. St. Stanislas for my Second Communion in Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. ca 1942.

MAN KIM or KIN-HKYF vehicle ferry

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2020-05-20 16:16
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1947

The newsprint text cannot decide if to call it MAN TIM or MAN TIN. I suspect MAN TIN is correct..

I do not recall seeing any proper  photographs of this  oddity

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