i.l.1947 secs.kh 1914 15

Thu, 06/29/2023 - 00:50

This is the second of two rather muddled pages of the 1914-1915 Rate Book that record the beginnings of Broadwood Road just after it had been officially named in 1913. Here we have G.K. Hall Brutton listed (oh dear) as the owner of no. 1 Broadwood Road, (I.L. 2060) whereas a year or so later he is given as the owner of both 4 and 5 Broadwood Road. Did the numbering of the road change so quickly? The Pokfulam Dairy Farm has five properties listed on this page including the cow shed and piggery. The addresses of A.J. Walters and E.R. Mogra, future Broadwood Road house owners, are here still listed as being Leighton Hill. By contrast, C.E. Warren and J. Olson are given as the joint owners of Ridge House, Broadwood Road without a number. Ridge House would become no. 13. They are also given as joint owners of at least three houses in Perfection Place, Tai Hang. I have failed to find out what Perfection Place (I.L. 2040) subsequently became, unless it was totally absorbed into Warren Street.

It would take a couple of years before the houses of Broadwood Road would be listed in a chronological neat order in the Rate Books and even then, the earlier numbers were dispersed on different pages as I have shown in earlier posts. I.L. 1947 was the plot that was bought by C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd. and which formed the building development on Broadwood Ridge referred to in Charles Warren's obituary of June 1923.

Date picture taken
1915