There are several stories to be told in this photo.
Let's place it first. The printed description is:
3703 On the Praya, (Water-front) Harbor of Hong Kong, China.Copyright 1901 By H. C. White Co. Read more »
Reader IDJ has sent in this photo, an earlier view of the same shop houses shown in this photo. He writes:
Alas the image was not taken by me but by a Dutch photographer visiting in the late 1950s.
Received by email from IDJ:
Thanks to reader T for sending in a photo of this pillbox:
Please take a look at photo 022. The caption read: Pre-war scene at Connaught Road Central, close to the then GPO. It mentioned the pillbox in the middle. http://www.hytd.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=28&replyid=3084&id=341&page=1&skin=0&Star=3
Please take a look at photo 022. The caption read: Pre-war scene at Connaught Road Central, close to the then GPO. It mentioned the pillbox in the middle.
http://www.hytd.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=28&replyid=3084&id=341&page=1&skin=0&Star=3
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