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Gaol Officers Quarters [1902-????]

Submitted by Herostratus on Sat, 2017-02-25 15:28
Date Place completed: 
c.1902-04-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

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New Gaol [1895-????]

Submitted by Herostratus on Tue, 2017-01-10 15:51
Date Place completed: 
c.1895-12-20 (Month, Day are approximate)

Two new cell blocks are constructed outside of the site, on the corner of Old Bailey and Staunton Street, with an underground subway connecting them to Victoria Gaol 

Source

155 new cells provided with stores and bathrooms in the basements

Completed 20th December 1895 - source

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Old Bailey Street
Staunton Street

Central Police Station 1997

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2016-06-05 23:41

1841年8月9日，建成中央監獄(Central Prison)，有兩排囚倉。

1860年，重建監獄，囚犯遷往昂船州躉船上。

1863年，建成中央監獄大樓，1900年易名為域多利監獄，2005年關閉。

1864年，建成總部營房大樓、A座和B座。

1905年，營房大樓加建一層。

1913年，中央裁判司署在位置重建，1979年關閉。

1914年，建成C座和D座。

1919年，建成北面的總部大樓。

1925年，建成西面的馬廐。

1941年，警署被日軍轟炸，其後用作日軍警署。

1995年9月8日，中區警署、域多利監獄和中央裁判司署列為法定古蹟。

2004年12月17日，警署關閉。

2010年，香港賽馬會公布將中區警署建築群活化為當代藝術中心。

2016年5月29日，已婚警員宿舍部份在維修後倒塌。

資料來源：《圖說香港歷史建築1841-1896》及《圖說香港歷史建築1897-1919》

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1997
Places shown in this photo: 
Central Police Station [????- ]
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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:

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