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KCR clock tower... under restoration

Submitted by joybot on Tue, 2021-10-05 17:57

The KCR clock tower in Tsim Sha Tsui, under scaffolding.

13 February 2001. Taken with an Olympus C1000-L digital camera. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

2001

Tags:

尖沙咀鐘樓

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De Jongh family residence, 2 Chatham Road, Hong Kong; Kowloon Signal Hill, 1930

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Tue, 2019-06-18 13:17

Charles Gesner van der Voort had started his career in Rotterdam, at Holland-China Trading Company (HCHC). In 1938, he went to Shanghai for the firm. The Japanese interned him, and most other Dutch nationals, from 1943-45. In camp, he met his wife Nancy and they married after the war. After a leave in The Netherlands, they returned to the Orient, where Charles continued to work for HCHC in Hong Kong.

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Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1930

Tags:

handelscompagnie

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Chuk Lam Ming Tong, Ping Shan 屏山

Submitted by joybot on Tue, 2019-03-26 04:54

A building I stumbled across somewhere off the Light Rail between Tuen Mun and Yuen Long. Finally, after years of Googling "紀念堂屏山", I found this blog post (http://blog.terewong.com/archives/8985), which explains that it is Chuk Lam Ming Tong, an elderly care home (www.clmt.org.hk) in Ping Shan. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

2001

Tags:

New Territories

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1980 KCR Clocktower

Submitted by Admin on Thu, 2011-01-13 03:35

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Looking rather lonely after all the station buildings had been demolished. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1981

Places shown in this photo:

Clock Tower of KCR Terminus [????- ]

Image Galleries:

1980s Hong Kong

Tags:

black and white

Kowloon Canton Railway

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