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Admiralty Centre 2014

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2014

Merry Christmas!

Admiralty Buildings 2014

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2014

Admiralty from the new reclaimed land.

The "POAD" building is one of the towers of Admiralty Centre. Low rise buildings left are Blake Block and Amethyst Block of the PLA Barracks.

CONRAD (Pacific Place) in the back.

United Centre [1981- ]

Date Place completed: 
1981-01-01

Address: 95 Queensway

Emporis gives end of construction as 1980, so it opened in 1981. 

Height (tip) 140.00 m

Floors (above ground) 36

It is used for commercial offices.

View from Government House east towards Wanchai across Admiralty

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1966

1902 Victoria view

Guess this is the construction of the Dry Dock at the Naval Dockyard. Probably more 1904 than 1902.

With HMS Tamar.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1904

Planes in Flight over Admiralty

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1935

Likely from HMS Hermes

1930s Ship dock air view

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930

Tidal basin 1970

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1970

Cropped fr

Tidal basin 1962

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

From Wikipedia: By Chingleung - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=15982107

Photo taken between 1961 and 1963. 

Handover of military areas to the HK Government

Construction of Harcourt Road

After the end of WW2, the military and naval premises were repaired from war damages and used further on. Mainly on Hong Kong Island, these areas were situated right in the centre of the developing city. Any expansion to the east was impeded by these areas, mainly in the aspect of traffic (i.e. motor vehicles).

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