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Queensway in 1980. The old building one the right (named Rodney House after the Second World War) was used as a hospital in the 19th century and might be the original "D'Aguilar's Hospital" built in the late 1840s. It was a typical building of colonial style, built of granite, bricks, concrete and timber. The pitched roof and verandah were local adaptations to the subtropical climate of Hong Kong.
The information about this house originates from an exhibition "Faces and Places" shown in 2009, see here.
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1980 (year is approximate)
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The building on the right…
The building on the right was actually named Blake Block. it had a sister building that would have been on the far left of the photo named Howe but Howe was demolished in the mid 1970s to straighten the kink out of Queensway. These were part of the original Wellington Barracks buildings built in the mid 1840s. Blake building survived until the early 1980s when it was demolished to build the approach flyover to Pacific Place. The building named Rodney was the large central building - at some point in the 1960s the original 1840s building was demolished and a new building was constructed, known as the New Rodney building, which can be seen the the picture behind to the left of Blake Block . This was also demolished in the 1980s as part of the redevelopment of the area.
Two views from the 1980s…
Two views from the 1980s showing the redevelopment of the area:
1980:
1987: