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1950s Kuhlan obelisk on Morrison Hill Road

Submitted by Nona on Sun, 2016-09-11 18:29
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950
Places shown in this photo: 
Kuhlan Monument (2nd location) [1934-????]

Traffic police officers inside the Hong Kong Jockey Club, 1925

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2016-06-02 03:57
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935
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Happy Valley
Hong Kong Jockey Club
police

Panorama of Hong Kong, taken from Happy Valley Beato and J Hentry Hering

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2016-05-27 14:07
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1860
Places shown in this photo: 
St John's Cathedral [1849- ]
Exchange Building / Court House (later Supreme Court) [1843-1921]
Headquarters House / Flagstaff House [1846- ]
Murray House - Murray Barracks Officer's Mess [1846-1982]
Murray Barracks [c.1846-1962]
Duddell's / Hunt & Co. / Jardine, Matheson & Co.- ML 100 [1855-1907]
North Barracks [c.1846-????]
Wellington Barracks / HMS Tamar [????-????]
St Francis Hospital (1st location) [????- ]
Eastern Market [????-????]
Hung Shing Temple, Wanchai [c.1847- ]
Spring Gardens (the 19th C. house) [????- ]
Seaman's Hospital [1843-1873]
Kuhlan Monument (1st location) [1855-1934]
Chief Justice's House [1844-????]
The Hospital of the Medical Missionary Society 傳道會醫院 [1843-1853]
Morrison Education Society School [1842-1849]
East Point - Jardine Matheson - ML52 [????- ]
Matheson's Bungalow - East Point Hill [????- ]
No 2 Building Jardine's East Point [????-????]
Chinese Houses/Warehouses on Leighton Road [????-????]
Former #1 Police Station, Leighton Road [1853-????]
Bowrington Old Bridge [????-????]
Happy Valley Racecourse [1846- ]
St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery, Happy Valley [1848- ]
House at Broadwood/Link Road junction [????-????]
Mercer's House [c.1842-????]
Kellett Island [????- ]
Signal Hill Battery / Blackhead Fort [????- ]
First Wanchai Police Station [c.1840-c.1847]

Completing the Felice Beato Panoramas is this one taken from above Happy Valley, probably from the Police Station that existed there. The photo is also credited to J Hentry Hering

 

Key

 

A: unknown building, I think located around Caine and Aberdeen

B: St John’s Cathedral

C: Augustine Head (Beaconsfield)

Between C& D is headquarters house

D: Murray Barracks

E: George Duddell Building, Offices of Thomas Hunt and Co? later Jardines

F: North Barracks

Mercer's House [c.1842-????]

Submitted by Herostratus on Fri, 2016-05-27 13:17
Date Place completed: 
c.1842-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
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Tags: 
Happy Valley

Cicely&pram.JPG

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2015-09-25 20:36
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1925
Places shown in this photo: 
St. Margaret's Church [1925- ]
4, Broadwood Road [????-????]
Le Calvaire / St Paul's Primary School, Happy Valley [1907- ]
The Towers, Broadwood Road [1916-????]
Happy Valley Racecourse [1846- ]

I guess this photo might have been taken in the second half of 1925 after the birth of Cicely Warren's first child. The Towers can be seen top right and my cousin Diana notes that St Margaret's Church is behind her mother. It might also by early 1927 after the birth of my cousin herself. What would be the road Cicely is walking along? I wonder if she had walked all the way down Broadwood Road in those heels!

Jill

Racecourse_view_1930s.jpg

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2015-09-25 03:33
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
Places shown in this photo: 
Happy Valley Racecourse [1846- ]
Permanent Stands at Happy Valley Racecourse (1st generation) [1931-1957]

I had dated this photo as 1930s, as it seemed to be in the same sequence as the so-called "View to Kowloon" from the collection of Leslie and Cicely Warren. If the "View to Kowloon" was clearly taken in the 1920s, then this shot which is also from the top of Broadwood Road, may be 1920s too. Grateful for any opinions about that.

Baby John Olson's gravestone.jpg

Submitted by jill on Mon, 2015-01-26 03:58
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2013

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