1946 Queen Victoria Statue

Mon, 09/22/2014 - 20:11
Date picture taken
1946

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80sKid (not verified)
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Mon, 04/06/2009 - 16:53

found a wonderful resource of high-res photos of Hong Kong on the Life web site.

Here's the statue of Queen Victoria looking the worse for wear with arm broken off.

http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=475190732828fb2a&q=victoria%20Hong%20Kong%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvictoria%2BHong%2BKong%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den

There's a lot of spectacular photos on here; you need to be inventive with tags to find them

China Mail 26 January 1949

The stone pedestal which formerly housed Queen Victoria was removed in January 1949. The stone pedestal was not re-erected. The stones were used for other building projects!