From Category:Photographs of Hong Kong by Lai Afong - Wikimedia Commons
I think the photo shows today's Queensway looking west. The building on the right should be F Block, Hospital, Wellington Barracks / Nelson Block [????-????], and in the center (in the road bend) E Block, Victoria Barracks [????-????]. Interestingly, on the building in the road bend an inscription can be seen: ROYAL NAVAL SEA(MEN'S ...?). The building left is unknown to me.
Compare this photo from 1935:
Addendum: In the original photo a sign can be seen on the right: Wing Tai or Hing Tai.
Date picture taken
1879 (year is approximate)
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Comments
Royal Naval Seamen's Club
Likely it was the Royal Naval Seamen's Club. A grant was given by the Government to aid the club in 1888. China Mail 12 November 1888 refers. See here
A Queen's Road East address for the Club was given in the 1894 Directory & Chronicle..... See here Long before Queensway came into being, this section of road east of the Cricket Club was considered as Queen's Road East.