moddsey Mon, 09/22/2014 - 20:31 prevnextoldernewer Date picture taken 1895 Tags Rickshaw Gallery 1890s Hong Kong Shows place(s) Windsor Hotel / Connaught House / Astor House / St. Francis Hotel [????-????] Building on western corner of Duddell Street / Queen's Road Central junction [1878-1919] Mercantile Bank of India [c.1882-????] Grand Hotel / Oriental Hotel - Queen's Road Central [????-1929] Log in or register to post comments Comments A bit of Grand Hotel visible… A bit of Grand Hotel visible on the left. Log in or register to post comments I got a hunch this photo was… I got a hunch this photo was taken on 20th June 1897 or thereabouts. Given the festooned decorations it should be the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Compare with this scene of Queen’s Road Central. Got the same photo within Gwulo: 1897 Queen's Road C, by Klaus Log in or register to post comments
A bit of Grand Hotel visible… A bit of Grand Hotel visible on the left. Log in or register to post comments
I got a hunch this photo was… I got a hunch this photo was taken on 20th June 1897 or thereabouts. Given the festooned decorations it should be the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Compare with this scene of Queen’s Road Central. Got the same photo within Gwulo: 1897 Queen's Road C, by Klaus Log in or register to post comments
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A bit of Grand Hotel visible…
A bit of Grand Hotel visible on the left.
I got a hunch this photo was…
I got a hunch this photo was taken on 20th June 1897 or thereabouts.
Given the festooned decorations it should be the Diamond Jubilee of Queen Victoria. Compare with this scene of Queen’s Road Central.
Got the same photo within Gwulo: