moddsey Mon, 09/22/2014 - 20:11 prevnextoldernewer Date picture taken 1946 Gallery 1940s Hong Kong Shows place(s) Queen Victoria's statue (original location) [1896-1942] Statue Square, Central [????- ] Log in or register to post comments Comments Queen Vic Statue Recovered 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 Log in or register to post comments Pedestal 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! Log in or register to post comments
Queen Vic Statue Recovered 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 Log in or register to post comments
Pedestal 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! Log in or register to post comments
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Queen Vic Statue Recovered
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
Pedestal
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!