Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1949
Shows Sai Kung harbour and the old Sai Kung Police Station on the southern shore. The roof is missing, a building behind seems to be completely removed; so the police station was likely damaged during the Japanese invasion in 1941. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1946
1946 - Capt. Paul Tsui (ADO / NT) with Capt. Jack Cater (Fishery Officer) and Captain of Commandoes stationed in Sai Kung Town. Photo taken outside what became the Shung Chun (Tsung Tsin) School of the Swiss Basel Mission. Tsui & Cater were stuck overnight at Sai Kung Town while touring the outlying areas by boat because the sea was too rough...
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1940
David Stone kindly allowed me to upload this photograph of his Uncle Billy (Willian Joseph Webber) standing at the top of a ship's gang plank. I suspect that the ship was moored alongside one of the Kowloon jetties but have not checked out the outline of the distant hills. It could be at the shipyard at Taikoo but as far as I know passenger vessels did not sail from Taikoo. <Read more ...>