1950s Junction of Morrison St & Des Voeux Rd Central
De Voeux Road - Soldier of Fortune
1950s Des Voeux Rd C, looking east towards Wing On
1950s Wing On Dept Store, Des Voeux Rd C.
De Voeux Road - Soldier of Fortune
1956 View south along Jubilee Street
1950s Des Voeux Road Central
1950s Des Voeux Road Central
1950s Des Voeux Road Central, near Fire Station
1956 Des Voeux Road Central
1953 Des Voeux Road Central
1953 Des Voeux Road Central
1950s Des Voeux Road Central near GPO
Second mystery photo HK 1954
1950s Des Voeux Road Central near Ice House Street
1950s Des Voeux Road Central
1950s Des Voeux Road Central near Banks
Alexandra House, Queens Road, Hong Kong - 1950's
1950s Court & Cricket Club
Central, Banks from Cricket Ground
1950s Queen's Road Central & Garden Rd
1950s Statue Square and temporary government buildings
Buildings around the cricket pitch
1950s Fred Evans' photos, View from Cheero Club
1950s Fred Evans' photos, Cheero Club, taken from tram
Central, Cricket ground from Cheero Club
1950s Hennessy Rd / Queens Road East Junction
1950s Junction of Hennessy Road and Arsenal Street
1950s Junction of Arsenal St and Hennessy Rd
1953 Rediffusion Building
1950s Hennessy & Johnston Roads (Western End)
1950s Chinese Methodist Church
1950s Western junction of Hennessy & Johnston Roads
1950s Western junction of Hennessy & Johnston Roads
1950s Johnston Rd & Southorn Playground
1950s Junction of Johnston Rd, Wanchai Rd, and Fleming Rd
1950s Johnston Road, looking West
1950s Eastern junction of Hennessy & Johnston Roads
1950s Hennessy Rd near Canal Rd
1950s Junction of Hennessy Road and Canal Road East
1950s Percival Street & New York Cinema
1950s Corner of Yee Wo St & Jardine's Bazaar
1950s Causeway Bay Roundabout
1950s Causeway Bay Roundabout
Waldorf Hotel, Causeway Road
View towards Waldorf Hotel, North Point?
1950s Causeway Road & Typhoon Shelter
Causeway Road, waiting for the gharry.
1950s Camel Paint Factory
Comments
Can you add any more?
Do you have any photos from the 1950s that show sections of the tram lines that we've missed above? If you are willing to share, it's easy to add them in.
Just create a new image, and fill in:
Then once you save the new image it will automatically appear in the right place on this page. Let us know if you need any help.
How does it work?
This page relies on several of the features we've talked about lately.
If you had a big box of photos of Hong Kong, and I wanted you to make a display like this, I'd ask for something like:
"all photos that show trams" - this uses tags. We tell the computer to search for all images that have the tag 'tram'.
"that were taken in the 1950s" - that's easy, we tell the computer to further limit its search to images with a 'date picture taken' between 1950 and 1959.
"lay them out in order" - here we use the 'places shown' . Luckily the tram line runs almost exactly West to East, so we can tell the computer to sort the images by 'ascending longitude'.
Filling in tags, dates, and places takes a bit more time and effort when we create the image. But I think it's worth it, as then it lets us search and view them in more interesting ways.
wonderful work
Thanks!
Dutchman's Videos
Hey guys, I am a random person. This dutchman got some cool videos here: http://www.youtube.com/user/MichaelRogge
Just want to share them with you. Enjoy!
fascinating and thanks
Tremendous work everyone.
New life for old Hong Kong!
Love to see a similar walkthrough for Queens Road East at different periods in time.
Still so much to see and ponder on around there, especially as you wander up the hill at Star Street (near the original burial ground), or the eerie Ship Street.
Nam Koo terrace, and the tiled footprints of demolished mansions, stairways and paths, and further up the hill what I imagine might have been old dairy sheds...
Still time to catch it, before Sir Gordon buries it all under concrete at some point in the future.
Love to be pointed at some early ordinance survey or other historical maps of that area, and try and rebuild an image of what it all looked like in the past.
Many thanks again to all the contributors and David in particular for sterling research work and commitment.
Best regards
Julian, Singapore
re: fascinating and thanks
Hi Julian,
Glad to hear you're enjoying the site.
I look forward to seeing what you find out about Wanchai. A good start is "Wanchai. In search of an identity" by Carl T. Smith in the book "Hong Kong. A reader in social history". It covers that area in a lot of detail.
regards, David
Thanks for the tip
Thanks for the tip David.
I will be up in HK for the dreaded 'sevens' from next wednesday, and will certainly take the opportunity to have a look for Cart T Smith book.
Also the various governement map publications recommended elsewhere on the site sound like a 'must have...' for any reader of HK history.
Take care.
Julian
Trams and bridges
Dear all,
A random question got popped at me about trams. Yesterday my 3-year-old asked whether trams go on bridges, and it got me thinking.
The tramway system today doesn't seem to have any bridges. The only one that I can think of is the 'Gooseneck bridge' that went over Bowrington, but it's not here anymore. In any case, what were the exact years that a tram line ran on Gooseneck?
Can anyone enlight me with more instances of trams going across bridges or flyovers down the ages?
breskvar
Re: Trams & bridges
Hi Breskvar,
I think we've just found Gwulo's youngest member! Your 3-year-old will probably be interested to see this photo.
Regards, David
Views along the line 1955
The latest photo that 80sKid put up is part of a series that include views along the line from approximately Hennessy Road right down to Shau Kei Wan terminus. If we follow this link
https://picasaweb.google.com/Don1.Irw/HONGKONG1955#5238617446263036226
we will see from photos 15 to 34 the photographer got on a tram and snapped many pictures. In photos 35 and 36 we can see the boats harboured in Aldrich Bay, which would be just by the side of the tram terminus.
David, my son was very amused when I showed him the Gooseneck Bridge photo with the trams. Thanks for giving me the link.
breskvar
Breskvar, thanks for the link
Breskvar, thanks for the link to those extra tram photos, and glad to hear your son enjoyed the photo.
Regards, David
A ride along the tram line in 1967
Absolutely brilliant. And
Absolutely brilliant. And awesome to see what a huge change in just one lifetime - amazing!
Great website.
Thanks Maj, glad you enjoyed
Thanks Maj, glad you enjoyed it.
Regards, David