This photo is labelled "18 Broadwood Road". It shows my cousin, Diana Warren with her doll. Her younger next door neighbour seems to be a predecessor of Shirley Ann Hewett and the date around 1935-36. I would guess from the outrageous bonnet that the companion has been press-ganged into a game of "hospitals" by Diana, in which he/she is the matron and Diana's doll the ailing patient.
Date picture taken
1930s
Shows person / people
Shows place(s)
Comments
Looking at 18.
So using your 1949 aerial view photograph, Jill, they are on the zig zag path out the front of 19 and we're looking towards the front left hand corner of 18? Great to have a close up of one of these houses. I don't suppose you have any more?
Number/name confusions
I think you must have changed the text of this post between my reading it and looking for the original photo. I don't know about the zig zag path, but the legend on the back of the photo reads "18 Broadwood Rd in background". So you would be right that the house in the foreground must be no. 19 and that no. 18 must be the house behind.
As to your query about "more", see https://gwulo.com/media/18157
The photograph in the album is labelled no. 17 Broadwood Rd., but the adjacent note by my cousin claims that it is no. 16. I think verification of the latter must have been carried out by David.
Regarding our previous discussion about whether no. 19 was called "The Cottage" or "The Bungalow", I have just come across a photo of no. 19 labelled "The Bungalow". We now know that it was called "The Cottage" in the Rate Book records; maybe the Warren family, and especially Diana, referred to it informally as "The Bungalow".
Do please tell us if you have an aim for collating this information on all the houses of Broadwood Road! We already know why you are interested in no. 24.
Just 24
I'm just interested in number 24 really.
Back to the pic - If we're on 19 looking towards 18, it shows that 19 was higher than 18, hence why in your View to Kowloon we are looking down on the roof of 18. And the parapet wall is the same, but in better condition here. Does that help us get a better date for View to Kowloon?
Regarding "View_to_Kowloon"
Regarding "View_to_Kowloon" at https://gwulo.com/media/22576 I'm not on the crack Gwulo team, who have expertise in old Hong Kong photos and have already expressed opinions about the dating of the photo and the position of the photographer.
As I've said elsewhere, Diana Warren inherited family photos in old age after the death of her mother. She had not been in Hong Kong since the age of twelve, so when it came to annotating the photos, some of her suppositions are guesswork. She might have simply guessed that the photo had been taken from no. 19. I defer to the experts. I'm constantly grateful for the opinions of the longstanding members of Gwulo who really know their stuff.
Apologies
Apologies, I will back off.