1950s View of Central from the harbour
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This 1866 map of Hong Kong's north shore was originally printed in the 1867 edition of The Chronicle and Directory for China, Japan, & the Philippines. Thank you to Peter Crush for compiling and sending in this digital copy.
The highlight of his first visit was the construction of the new Taikoo dockyard [1] at Quarry Bay. On this next visit, four years later, he could show it as a going concern.
He took several photos of ships under repair, both up on the slips and down in the dry dock:
Two rounds of reclamation ago, the Star Ferry pier was at the junction of Connaught Road and Ice House Street. Here's how it looked when it opened in 1912:
In part 1, Barbara talked about her first visit to Hong Kong as a young girl, living here from 1927 to 1929.
In this part 2, Barbara tells us about returning to Hong Kong in 1938, then being evacuated with her mother and sisters in 1940. While in transit in the Philippines, they received news that her father had died suddenly, which meant they all returned to Hong Kong. They decided to stay here, and so were caught up in the Japanese invasion of December 1941, and the internment that followed.