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Norwegian Farm Camp/Cassino Lines 1952/53

Submitted by 80sKid on Mon, 2014-06-02 10:42
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likely the home of the Royal Norfolk Regiment during their stay in Hong Kong 1952-53

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1952
Places shown in this photo: 
Norwegian Farm Camp / Cassino Camp / San Tin Barracks [????- ]
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1950s Hong Kong
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1950s Star Ferry

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 2013-11-25 22:12
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Phase one of Union House under construction after the demolition of King's and York Buildings in 1958. Chartered Bank appears to be just completed in 1959.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959
Places shown in this photo: 
P&O building (4th generation) [1924-1961]
Central Star Ferry Pier (3rd location, Edinburgh Place) [1957-2006]
St. George's Building (1st Generation) [1904-1966]
General Post Office (Connaught Rd / Pedder St site) [1911-1977]
Swire House (originally named "Union House") [1962-1998]
Blake Pier (1st generation, 1st location) [1900-1965]
HSBC Headquarters Building (3rd generation) [1935-1984]
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Yangtze Gun Boat replica built in Hong Kong

Submitted by IDJ on Thu, 2013-01-24 23:44
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1965

The San Pablo was built at east Kowloon (Kwun Tong)? shipyards for the film The Sand Pebbles in the mid-1960s. A video of its construction and some of the filming around Hong Kong waters can be seen here

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Tuen Mun mansion film set and demolition-1

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2012-01-28 02:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1986
Places shown in this photo: 
Kadoorie Beach, Tuen Mun, 18-3/4 Milestone [????- ]
In the 1980s property developers discovered the large mansions with lots of land hidden along the coast stretching out towards Tuen Mun (Castle Peak) and gradually they were redeveloped into low/high rise multiple occupancy sites. This mansion with the green tiled roof situated above Cafeteria Old Beach and Kadoorie Beach was used as a film set and painted blue before it was noisily blown up and set on fire around 1986.

Tuen Mun mansion film set and demolition-2

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2012-01-28 02:00
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1986
Places shown in this photo: 
Kadoorie Beach, Tuen Mun, 18-3/4 Milestone [????- ]

Night filming in progress

Tuen Mun mansion film set and demolition-3

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2012-01-28 01:56
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1986
Places shown in this photo: 
Kadoorie Beach, Tuen Mun, 18-3/4 Milestone [????- ]

Demolition nearly complete

Tuen Mun mansion film set & demolition-4

Submitted by IDJ on Sat, 2012-01-28 01:52
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1986
Places shown in this photo: 
Kadoorie Beach, Tuen Mun, 18-3/4 Milestone [????- ]

Site cleared for Bayview Terrace construction

Ferry to Hong Kong

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2011-10-19 18:14
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959

The supposedly authorative large format book titled "Early Hong Kong Transport" by Cheng Po Hung and published by the University of Hong Kong has the above picture on page 36 captioned as being the S.S. Fa Tsan of 1919. However, this vessel is actually a film mock-up used in the 1959 movie "Ferry to Hong Kong". I have just watched the DVD. The quality of the colour image should have given the game away to the picture compiler. The paddle wheel housings are definately fakes added to an existing vessel for the film.

 

Chungking Airport re "Love is a Many Splendored Thing" movie location

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2011-05-25 02:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1941

The island airport was flooded and abandoned when the river level periodically rose, and another airport high up in the hills further away from the city came into use. This picture is from 1941

 

Ferry to Hong Kong

Submitted by IDJ on Wed, 2010-08-18 22:38
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959

This film was made at least partly in Hong Kong with Lewis Gilbert as the Director. He also made the Battle Of Britain film and a couple of James Bond epics. A website review of the film claims that there are very good aerial shots of Hong Kong as in the war Gilbert had been an RAF aerial camerman. This Rank Organisation film does not appear to be availble on Video or DVD and appears not to have been shown on TV on any regular basis. It would be interesting to see late 1950s Hong Kong in Cinemascope.

 

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