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1994 - Central

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Wed, 2016-08-10 16:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1994

1994 - Rednaxela Terrace

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Wed, 2016-08-10 16:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1994

1985 - Exchange Square

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Sun, 2016-07-03 17:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1985

1985 - Exchange Square

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Sun, 2016-07-03 17:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1985

1985 - HSBC Headquarters under construction

Submitted by Cliff Atkins on Sun, 2016-07-03 17:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1985
Places shown in this photo: 
HSBC Headquarters Building (4th generation) [1986- ]

Bungalow of French Admiral

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-06-02 15:34
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
North Side Arbuthnot Road [c.1846-c.1910]
Buxley Lodge (1st Generation) [c.1850-c.1875]
5 Chancery Lane [c.1850-c.1910]
8 Chancery Lane [c.1850-c.1910]
Dent's Bungalow - “Pagoda House” [1841-1861]
Unknown building between Wyndham Street and Arbuthnot Road [c.1850-????]
Victoria Prison [????- ]

View in Hong-Kong - Bungalow of French Admiral in Foreground 

I am unsure of the location but I think Garden Road is in the foreground. Does anyone know who the French Admiral was?

 

After further research I have worked out that this photo is of the Wyndham Street/Arbuthnot Road area taken from junction of Ice House Street/Lower Albert Road, roughly where the FCC is today. 

The following building can be seen:

View towards the Peak from Central

Submitted by Herostratus on Thu, 2016-06-02 15:21
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
Former French Mission Building, 1 Battery Path [1919- ]
Government House (1st generation) [1855-1942]
The Albany [1844-1935]
HSBC Manager's House and Sub-Manager's House - IL 580 [1861-1935]

View in Hong-Kong - The Episcopal Church - The Goverment Palace and Hurd & Co.'s American Mercantile House - The Plaza in Foreground 

A parade at Central Police Station, 1890

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-06-02 03:32
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1890
Places shown in this photo: 
Central Police Station [????- ]
Parade Ground, Central Police Station [????- ]
Tags: 
police
Central District
central police station

Hong Kong New Year card 1880s

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-05-29 05:45

Text on Flickr:

With no apologies for Victorian racial stereotyping, the doggerel verse at the bottom of the card reads:

 "To Topside Hill from where my stand

My look see plenty Hong so new

My neva have see place mo gland

And neva talke thing mo true

My look the roads, the ship, the tree

And thinkee my no place have see

So nice Hong Kong"

 The paint palette on the left has written on it, "A happy new year to you".

 On the reverse is a handwritten message:

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1875
Places shown in this photo: 
Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens [1864- ]
Tags: 
victorian
Hong Kong
newyear
Kennedy Road
praya
Botanical Gardens
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