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 ...>
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 ...>
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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.
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 ...>
