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1954
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Identify big building at center top of this photo?
Would anyone know what the large building at the top and center of this photo is?
Based on the position of #46 King Yin Lei, it appears to be the near the location of the Adventist Hospital, but doesn't match photos of St. Albert's Priory or Rosaryhill School which succeded it. If this is truly a photo from the 1950s, it's hard to think what else what would have been on Mt. Nicholson that would have been so big.
(I am interested as I'm trying to find images of the house or site that once was #39 Stubbs Road.)
No 5 Broadwood Road
Using the Zoom function gives us a rare colour shot of the facade of the mansion that was N0 5 Broadwood Road (top left quarter of the picture), which chose to face the other way to the rest of the Broadwood Road houses which overlooked the Racecourse. We also see the grassed terrace at the front of the house which had 'an immaculately kept' tennis court on it. The mansion echoed the colonial style of the larger buildings of Victorian Hong Kong and faced out over Causeway Bay.
At No 20, the Towers was another house not directly overlooking the Racecourse, but built to take in both sides of Broadwood Ridge; Happy Valley Racecourse and Wanchai on one side and Causeway Bay on the other, with the broad span of Kowloon and the mainland to the north.