Coffin shop and scribe

Thu, 09/24/2015 - 17:16

I took this photograph on Hollywood Road. The juxtaposition of the coffins and the writer made we wonder whether he specialised in writing wills.

Date picture taken
3 Aug 1981
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Hi Andrew,

The scribe is stepping on a Rediffusion pothole cover.

On the What's New page, I mistook your title for this picture as "coffee shop and scribe".  Was this photo taken in Wanchai?

breskvar

Believe it or not the coffin shop is still there. The open gate at the right is the front of St Matthew's Chruch. The rediffusion cover has gone but funnily enough the cross patterned tiles on the front of the coffin shop are still there.

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