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Jardine House - Advertisement- 1914

Submitted by Chinarail on Thu, 2021-05-20 13:23

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

1914

Scan of advertisement for Jardine Matheson & Co. Ltd. published in the 1914 edition of the Directory & Chronicle for China. Japan,Corea, Indo-China. etc.etc. . The building depicted is the 2nd generation Jardine House which stood at the corner of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road central <Read more ...>

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Pedder Building

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2018-06-21 23:21

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

2104

Still standing in 2014! <Read more ...>

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Chairs waiting at Pedder Street

Submitted by schultie on Tue, 2017-11-07 18:34

An old fashioned taxi rank in the 1920s in Hong Kong: a number of chairs in a row. Photo taken between 1924-1927. <Read more ...>

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Pedder Street Hong Kong

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2017-06-17 03:36

on Flickr dated 1908 to 1915. The Clocktower stood 1862-1913. On the right hand side is the Jardine House (2nd generation) which opened in 1909, so its early 1910's. <Read more ...>

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

1910

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Pedder Street

Jardine House

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Gloucester Tower [1980- ]

Submitted by Herostratus on Mon, 2016-09-26 17:14

Date Place completed:

1980-05-01

Gloucester Tower topped out in May 1980

Official opening of Landmark Phase 1 was 15th December 1980

Source: Hong Kong Land at 125 <Read more ...>

Previous place(s) at this location:

Gloucester Building / Gloucester Hotel [1932-1977]

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landmark

Pedder Street

Des Voeux Road

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Hong Kong June 1846

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2016-08-24 13:30

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

1846

Places shown in this photo:

Lindsay & Co. [1843-????]

Dent & Co. - Queen's Rd (1st location) [1841-????]

Rustomjee & Co. / Keying House / The Parsee’s residence [1845-1868]

Exchange Building / Court House (later Supreme Court) [1843-1921]

Harbour Master's House /Pedder's Hill [1841-????]

Victoria Prison [????- ]

Chapel of the Conception / First Roman Catholic Cathedral [1843-1886]

Post Office Building -Queens Road Central - 1st Generation [1846-c.1864]

From left to right along the waterfront is:

small house - possibly harbourmasters boat shed

Lindsay & Co

Dent & Co

Rustomjee & Co above junk Sail

To the right of that is the Post office then the Exchange building/supreme court

On Peddar hill above is the Harbourmasters office. Above that is Victoria Gaol buildings.

The first Catholic Cathedral can be seen as well, interestingly it only sems to have one tower rather than the two it had later after the 1860 rebuild.

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Hong Kong: the Club House, Parsee residence and Harbour Master’s house

Submitted by Herostratus on Wed, 2016-08-24 13:18

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

1846

Places shown in this photo:

Harbour Master's House /Pedder's Hill [1841-????]

Rustomjee & Co. / Keying House / The Parsee’s residence [1845-1868]

Walford Bellairs entered the Royal Naval College in 1809, and the Royal Navy three years later, serving on the ship Asia; he was commissioned in 1819. He was employed in 1842-1845 as Admiralty Agent in the Packet Service, on the West Indies route; later he served in the same capacity in the Far East, aboard the P. & O.’s first mail steamer to operate beyond India, the Lady Mary Wood. Bellairs sailed from Point de Galle, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) via Penang to Hong Kong, arriving on 21 February 1846 and setting off on the return journey a week later. <Read more ...>