A rare early photograph of Hong Kong showing the Canton Bazaar on the south side of the road opposite Fletchers' Godown. The Military Hospital and the harbour lies beyond
View in Hong-Kong - Bungalow of French Admiral in Foreground
I am unsure of the location but I think Garden Road is in the foreground. Does anyone know who the French Admiral was?
After further research I have worked out that this photo is of the Wyndham Street/Arbuthnot Road area taken from junction of Ice House Street/Lower Albert Road, roughly where the FCC is today.
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
The date is Thursday 1st March 1860 (can anyone tell the time from the shadow position of chimneys on Building F?) , all the ships and soldiers in the harbour are off to burn Beijing down to the ground because of interference in the European Opium trade.... How many ships are there?
The Building key, corrections welcome.
References mainly taken from the Map of A.F. Alves 1862
A Roman Catholic Cathedral – being reconstructed after a fire
