Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1957
Another map from the 1950's scrapbook collected whilst I was at the Peak School. This time it is a street map of Kowloon at that time. Things have changed dramatically since then! <Read more ...>
As a primary school student at Peak School in 1957, we had to make a Hong Kong Scrapbook with clippings from newspapers and magazines etc. This is a map I obviously found in some publication and may be of interest to others! <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1924
Click here to see a copy of this map overlayed on a present-day map of Hong Kong, with markers for all the Places we've got more information about.
The map appeared in "Hong Kong, A Brief History and Guide of Hongkong and the New Territories", published by Kelly & Walsh, Ltd in 1924. There's a copy available in the local Royal Asiatic Society's library. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1845
Here's a detailed, zoomable, scrollable, clickable map of Hong Kong from 1845, showing the north of the island from Shek Tong Tsui across to Tin Hau, plus the area around Happy Valley. The view above shows the map as drawn, then please click here to see it rotated and overlayed on a modern map of Hong Kong.
