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The Ice House Company's shop, Hong Kong

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.

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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).

Shopping in Queen's Road Central in Edwardian Times

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1968 Pacific house

Another Lindy's Restaurant.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1968

Jimmy's advert 1938

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1938

From The Hongkong Telegraph 1938-01-17

Obviously, there was a Jimmy's in Kowloon already in the 1930's

Postcards Hong Kong wrapper, ca. 1910, M. Sternberg, No 51, Queen's Road Central, Hongkong

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.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1910

Chartered Bank at Duddell Street & Queen's Road Central

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1880

Queens Road Central Looking West 1900s

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1900

1936 Queen's Road C1

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1936

Banks at Queen's Road Central

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.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1962

Lok King Premises westward to Pottinger Street [????-????]

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.

 

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