1931-01-18 Kiki et moi dans un village chinois pres de Hong Kong 18 Jan 1931.jpg

Sun, 06/30/2019 - 18:51

The family moved to Tai Po in 1934, but at this stage they were still living in Kowloon.The European woman is my grandmother Kathe de Chaffoy, and the child is my mother Kiki de Chaffoy. I think this image was made into a postcard!

Date picture taken
18 Jan 1930

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May have seen such a postcard but cannot be sure. Would the scene be the  Kowloon City Walled Village instead?

Noted the main photo in a photographic booklet titled "La Perla Del Oriente" that was recently sold at auction. Printed in 1937, comprising 15 pages of photographic scenes of Hong Kong.

The booklet appears connected with the cigar store "La Perla Del Oriente" that also printed postcards of Hong Kong scenes for sale. In 1937, the cigar store in the Gloucester Building was opened by Messrs. The Orient Tobacco Manufactory C. Ingenohl Ltd.

 

 

By chance, came across this photo: https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/712304028/1920s-kowloon-street-scene-hong-kong?click_key=db0494d2d76ada0c7d4f5555a98b0ac861650301%3A712304028&click_sum=b1a7f641&external=1&rec_type=ss&ref=landingpage_similar_listing_top-1

which I think shows the next shop house further up the street. The two vertical shop signboards in Chinese characters hanging at centre right in the main photo appear very much the same.

Other photos can be viewed at: https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/Ninskaphotos?ref=sim_items_shophome&search_query=hong+kong

"dans un village chinois pre's de Hong Kong" seems to mean in a Chinese village close to Hong Kong. It could be a village across the border in China. In the 1930s, you may not even need a visa to cross the border. I may be wrong.

Yes moddsey, I think you may be right.

Re: crossing the border, simtang, I don't remember my mother saying that they ever did that, in all the time they were in HK (1930-1953). I think "near Hong Kong" means near the city, rather than near the colony.