Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1868
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: VH03-05
Photo by William Pryor Floyd, dated 1868.
Text on the web page:
The Ice House Company, whose shop stood on Queen's Road Central, at the junction with Battery Path and Ice House Street, did not manufacture ice. The ice was harvested from iceburgs by The American Company and shipped to Hong Kong (source: Hong Kong - A Rare Photographic Record of the 1860s by Arthur Hacker). <Read more ...>
M. Sternberg, No 51, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong,
Dealer in pictorial cards, and all kinds of fancy cards,
also Christmas, New Year, and birthday cards, post card albums, by retail and wholesale,
The largest assortment of Cards in the Colony. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
I believe the following buildings are on the image: Left is Princes's Building, extreme right is Bank of Canton, then moving left to Chartered Bank, then HSBC Headquarters (3rd gen), and old Bank of China. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
Lok King's premises belonged to and were occupied by Lane Crawford and Co. To the westward were European buildings right up to the corner of Pottinger Street. Next to Lane Crawford's were the offices of the solicitors Wotton and Deacon, also a millinery establishment, owned by a Miss Roase, and MacEwen and Frickel's store.
