Admin Mon, 09/22/2014 - 19:30 prevnextoldernewer Photo courtesy of Geoffrey Date picture taken 1940s Gallery 1940s Geoffrey's photos Log in or register to post comments Comments Shanghai? Canton? We can see a lot of rubble in the foreground, so I wondered if this was somewhere that had been bombed near the time this photo was taken. Also the building on the hilltop looks like it has a gilded dome, like you see on an orthodox church. Any sugegstions where it could be? Log in or register to post comments Macau Like some of the other photos from Geoffrey's collection, I cannot be sure but I think this photo was taken in Macau. Log in or register to post comments reply to pic from geoffrey's collection that picture is of the beginning of the praia grande (macau) during a period of reclamation. one of those buildings is the former liceu. reclamation was ongoing in this area from the 20s as it was prone to flooding the whole of down town. Log in or register to post comments continued the building with the 'church like attributes' from afar is actually the post office - built 1929 and still standing in san ma lo http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=3092951&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=26556752554&aid=-1&id=689768775&oid=26556752554 Log in or register to post comments Thanks for pin-pointing it. Regards, David Log in or register to post comments Thanks Vanessa Thanks Vanessa. I had a feeling the domed like structure belonged to the Post Office but couldn't be sure. Cheers. Log in or register to post comments
Shanghai? Canton? We can see a lot of rubble in the foreground, so I wondered if this was somewhere that had been bombed near the time this photo was taken. Also the building on the hilltop looks like it has a gilded dome, like you see on an orthodox church. Any sugegstions where it could be? Log in or register to post comments
Macau Like some of the other photos from Geoffrey's collection, I cannot be sure but I think this photo was taken in Macau. Log in or register to post comments
reply to pic from geoffrey's collection that picture is of the beginning of the praia grande (macau) during a period of reclamation. one of those buildings is the former liceu. reclamation was ongoing in this area from the 20s as it was prone to flooding the whole of down town. Log in or register to post comments
continued the building with the 'church like attributes' from afar is actually the post office - built 1929 and still standing in san ma lo http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=3092951&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=26556752554&aid=-1&id=689768775&oid=26556752554 Log in or register to post comments
Thanks Vanessa Thanks Vanessa. I had a feeling the domed like structure belonged to the Post Office but couldn't be sure. Cheers. Log in or register to post comments
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Shanghai? Canton?
We can see a lot of rubble in the foreground, so I wondered if this was somewhere that had been bombed near the time this photo was taken.
Also the building on the hilltop looks like it has a gilded dome, like you see on an orthodox church.
Any sugegstions where it could be?
Macau
Like some of the other photos from Geoffrey's collection, I cannot be sure but I think this photo was taken in Macau.
reply to pic from geoffrey's collection
that picture is of the beginning of the praia grande (macau) during a period of reclamation. one of those buildings is the former liceu. reclamation was ongoing in this area from the 20s as it was prone to flooding the whole of down town.
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the building with the 'church like attributes' from afar is actually the post office - built 1929 and still standing in san ma lo
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/photo.php?pid=3092951&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=26556752554&aid=-1&id=689768775&oid=26556752554
Thanks
for pin-pointing it.
Regards, David
Thanks Vanessa
Thanks Vanessa. I had a feeling the domed like structure belonged to the Post Office but couldn't be sure. Cheers.