Ice House Street

Wed, 05/18/2022 - 17:59

Try to figure where those buildings were standing.

Date picture taken
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Given the narrow street and the curvature of the road in the foreground, I think one is looking into Ice House Street from the then praya, Des Voeux Road Central.  A grainy photo of the praya and Ice House Street on the extreme left here

It's interresting to see that road from the early years and how it looks today. I wonder about the steepness of the road. It looks almost flat on that picture. Icehouse street today has a fairly steep descent. And to judge from that picture, looking towards the end of the road, there is a building. What kind of building could that be? When we look up Icehouse Street today the road makes a right turn (looking up from Queens Road Central) and a large wall stands on that site where on the old photograph a building stands. Or a wild guess... Could that be todays Duddell Street? Maybe I'm wrong! The tall white building behind could that be perhaps the former Grand Carlton Hotel?