Dent & Co. and Lindsay & Co.

hfsiu
Mon, 09/22/2014 - 22:22
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Dent & Co. and Lindsay & Co.

Building A was Dent & Co., that I'm sure, but how about Building B & C? Did they belong to Dent & Co. as well?

I was told Lindsay & Co. was next to Dent & co.? Did Building D & E belong to Lindsay, building style look exactly the same.

If I'm wrong, what were building B, C, D & E

HF

 

Date picture taken
1867

Comments

We could trace the ownership by lot number. See http://gwulo.com/node/8229.

For ML 2,

1871 LEASE OF PREMISES FOR 4 YEARS FROM 1/1/1871 JOHN SMITH AND ALEXANDER F. SMITH TRADING AS MCEWEN & COMPANY
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1882 LEASE FOR 10 YEARS FROM 1ST JANUARY 1882 RE SEC.A THE CHARTERED MERCANTILE BANK OF INDIA, LONDON AND CHINA

I don't have my copy of Mapping Hong Kong available, but I think it has a labelled map showing Dent's property running the length of Pedder Street, but only the width of building A.

For ML2, I believe that covers the south portion facing Queen's Rd. The section on the sea side was split into lots 2a, 2b, and 2c, and two of those should be buildings D and E.

Lovely photo!

Regards, David

We see the dome of the Hong Kong Hotel, so this is after Dent's went under and their original ML 3&4 on Queen's Road was sold to the Hong Kong Hotel.   We are looking at reclaimed ML 7 &  ML 2A and ML 2B (now IL 1730)

Lindsay only owned ML 2A. He sold it to Solomon David Sassoon in 1867.

You can add these to "places"

Dent & Co. (West - Praya and Pedder) / Melcher's Building - ML 7 Sec C [1863-1889]
Dent & Co. (East) / Russell & Co. / Cafe Wiseman - ML 7 Sec A [1863-1923]
Dent & Co. (Centre) / Holiday & Wise / later Melcher's - ML 7 Sec B [1863-????]
Powell Building, 12 Des Voeux Road Central
ML 2B - IL 1730 - Current Bank Of East Asia
 
 

Compare to this photo from 1887.

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