Looking North over Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon

cmshun
Mon, 09/22/2014 - 23:24
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Looking North over Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon
Date picture taken
1906
Shows place(s)
Kowloon [????- ]
Knutsford Terrace [1891-????]
Gordon Terrace [c.1902-c.1961]
Kimberley Villas [????-????]

Comments

(CM, I've moved the comments back here to the photo's page. No need to show the photo in the forum too - you'll just end up with comments split across two pages.)

Suggestions on Possible Date Appreciated

This photo seems to be a bit earlier than the one (dated 1908) shown on HKO's website: http://www.hko.gov.hk/abouthko/history/buildings_e.htm 

considering the small white house downhill to the south of the Observatory's 1883 Building on this photo.  The 1908 photo shows a bigger house in the place of the small white house.

Submitted by cmshun on Tue, 2012-10-16 23:51
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Possible date

Similar scenes of the same area can be viewed (1)  ,   (2)     

 (3) ,      (4)    and    (5)

Considering that the roads in the photos were built after 1893, I reckon your photo would be around the 1900s.

Submitted by moddsey on Wed, 2012-10-17 00:32
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Many thanks Moddsey.

Looks like that (2) should be the oldest one prior to 1902 (without the two rows of houses west of East Road which were already shown on the 1902-03 map (3)).

Comparing the fine details of my photo with (1) (dated 1906) it appears that they are almost the same (I would say more than 90%).  So it is likely that my photo should also be around 1906.

Other views welcome!

CM