Text on Flickr:
建於1810年的九龍寨城炮臺。Kowloon Walled City Fort built in 1810
Note: the date construction is incorrect, its probably from the date of construction of the walled city i.e. 1847.
Date of the photo set to 1906, see comment below.
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Date picture taken
1906
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I think the photo shows the
I think the photo above shows the main Kowloon Walled City (https://gwulo.com/node/11102) rather than the smaller battery. The building above is larger than the one in the photo of the battery:
Battery or Walled City
The photo is more likely from the Walled City than from the fort. I was mislead by the caption on Flickr. It looks like the Walled City due to the battlements on the photo that are visible on similar ones. I'll amend the place and delete "built in 1810".
I found a copy of this photo
I found a copy of this photo in the book City of Darkness. It's one of a pair of photos that the author dates to 1906.
More information
Moddey found an interesting publication Historical cum Social Study on Kowloon City district in connection with Kai Tak area. Many details can be found there as well as references to books on the history of this area. More photos here.
Re: the URL to heritage.gov.hk
Hi Klaus,
It would seem the URL to heritage.gov.hk had changed thus the link you posted previously did not work. I look-up the plain text and it now pointed to https://www.heritage.gov.hk/filemanager/heritage/en/content_246/kowlooncityfinalreport.pdf instead. It is a download link though.
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