Thanks moddsey. I think it may have been you who posted the notice that The Towers, 20 Broadwood Road, was sold at auction in 1933 to Chinese buyers, Messrs. Kwong Nin & Tam Manshiu for $45,000. Hong Kong practice seems to have been to mortgage a property immediately on purchase. My Warren cousins' memory was of being at liberty to wander around in the empty building of The Towers as children in the early 1930s as they lived next door at no. 19. I don't know if no. 20 was occupied between 1924 and the latter part of the 1930s when it was rented by Arthur Dransfield and then run as a boarding house by his daughter, Dorothy Walch and her husband, but I assume it must have been.
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20 Broadwood Road in the 1930s
Thanks moddsey. I think it may have been you who posted the notice that The Towers, 20 Broadwood Road, was sold at auction in 1933 to Chinese buyers, Messrs. Kwong Nin & Tam Manshiu for $45,000. Hong Kong practice seems to have been to mortgage a property immediately on purchase. My Warren cousins' memory was of being at liberty to wander around in the empty building of The Towers as children in the early 1930s as they lived next door at no. 19. I don't know if no. 20 was occupied between 1924 and the latter part of the 1930s when it was rented by Arthur Dransfield and then run as a boarding house by his daughter, Dorothy Walch and her husband, but I assume it must have been.