This week’s video explores the second of the two 1909 panoramas I received recently. The photos that make up the panorama are sharp enough that we can see details as far away as Lai Chi Kok, even though the photographer took the photos from mid-levels on Hong Kong island.
(Please click here to watch the video on Youtube if it isn't shown above.)
If you'd like to see more photos or information about the places I mention in the video, please use these links:
- 00:04 The first 1909 panorama - https://youtu.be/8MsH3VS5SeY
- 00:30 British Military Hospital - https://gwulo.com/bowen-road-british-military-hospital
- 01:00 The Firs - https://gwulo.com/node/8077
- 01:22 Albany Filter Beds - https://gwulo.com/node/4972
- 01:42 How the filter bed works - https://gwulo.com/comment/19575#comment-19575
- 03:30 1-4 Bowen Road (Royal Artillery Officers Mess) - https://gwulo.com/node/5524
- 03:40 Kingsclere - https://gwulo.com/node/4982
- 04:00 Union Church - https://gwulo.com/node/4823
- 04:20 Racket Court - https://gwulo.com/node/33361
- 04:47 The Albany - https://gwulo.com/the-albany
- 04:54 Government House (Governor's Residence) - https://gwulo.com/node/12634
- 04:59 St John's Cathedral - https://gwulo.com/saint-johns-cathedral
- 05:10 Roman Catholic Cathedral - https://gwulo.com/roman-catholic-cathedral
- 05:15 Victoria Prison - https://gwulo.com/node/14271
- 05:23 Marble Hall - https://gwulo.com/marble-hall
- 05:42 Western Market - https://gwulo.com/node/4212
- 05:54 Stonecutters Island - https://gwulo.com/stonecutters-island
- 06:05 Hong Kong Historic Maps website - https://www.hkmaps.hk/
- 06:48 Barbara Anslow's memories of 1920s Hong Kong - https://gwulo.com/node/31352
- 07:23 Standard Oil Co. - https://gwulo.com/node/20532
- 07:29 Mei Foo - https://gwulo.com/node/20533
- 07:55 Labourers accommodation / Quarantine station / Prison / Hospital / Jao Tsung-I Academy - https://gwulo.com/node/20011
- 09:20 Cosmopolitan Dock - https://gwulo.com/cosmopolitan-docks
- 09:45 Service Reservoir at Bishop Hill - https://gwulo.com/node/52552
- 10:45 Kowloon Wharves - https://gwulo.com/node/5306
- 12:15 KCR Terminus - https://gwulo.com/kowloon-canton-railway-terminus
- 12:52 Holt's Wharf - https://gwulo.com/holts-wharf-hong-kong
- 12:56 Signal Hill - https://gwulo.com/node/2325
- 13:25 Kowloon Docks - https://gwulo.com/node/6667
- 13:55 Hong Kong Volunteers - https://gwulo.com/node/56076
- 14:47 Oil tanks (Dutch Oil Company) - https://gwulo.com/node/30203
- 15:00 1934 view of the typhoon shelter - https://youtu.be/kaRVxG43aiA
- 16:08 Wanchai Police Station - https://gwulo.com/node/3862
- 17:40 New General Post Office - https://gwulo.com/node/3034
- 17:47 Old General Post Office - https://gwulo.com/node/6156
- 17:55 Jardine House - https://gwulo.com/node/7007
- 18:15 Pedder Street clocktower - https://gwulo.com/node/3843
- 18:21 Hongkong Hotel - https://gwulo.com/node/7087
- 20:53 Public Works Department annual reports - https://gwulo.com/public-works-annual-reports
- 22:45 Volume 1 of my books - https://gwulo.com/node/60211
For more panorama photos of old Hong Kong, see: https://gwulo.com/taxonomy/term/315/photos
Comments
hulks
On the panorama, two hulks can be seen. HMS Tamar near the Naval Dockyard, and another one near the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter. The latter looks like HMS Meeanee. On Wikipedia it is referred that this ship was broken up in 1906, but this is obviously incorrect.
re: hulks
Here's a crop of the panorama showing the second hulk. Comparing it with the other boats around it, does it look a bit small to be the Meanee?
Re: Meeanee
Yes, possibly too small to be HMS Meeanee. But the shape would fit.
Still in Hong Kong was HMS Wivern, but this was a turret ship and smaller.
So I don't know which ship it is.