1908 Chartered Bank, Queen's Road Central

Circa 1908. 

Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China on Queen's Road Central. On the top of the building, "1894" is given as the completion date.

An article in the China Mail (1957-05-16, pg1 before the completion of the new premises in 1959) reports the speech by Mr. Small, the Bank Manager, which includes some useful history of the bank's previous locations.

Of which "our present building in Queen's Road was completed in 1894, the site having previously been owned and occupied by the old Chartered Mercantile Bank of India , London and China, the forerunner of the present Mercantile Bank of India."

Photo Source:

1. wikipedia
2. Twentieth Impressions of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and other Treaty Ports of China etc, https://archive.org/details/twentiethcentury00wriguoft/page/114/mode/2up