Current condition
Demolished / No longer exists
Date completed
Date closed / demolished
(Day, Month, & Year are approximate.)
According to the 1925 PWD Annual Report, the SCMP building was in the course of erection and portion of the building had already been occupied.
Photos that show this Place
c.1925
1926
1928
Comments
South China Building
Was replaced by the South China Building which opened in 1973.
A Big Change
The SCMP moved to Tong Chong Street, Quarry Bay in April 1971. From typesetting to modern technology.
SCMP as a carrier of revolutionary propaganda
In 1902, Xie Jiantai, a revolutionary who participated in many plots to overthrow the Qing Dynasty, established 南清早报, predecessor of South China Morning Post with a British man Alfred Cunningham.
Xie, as the editor, used the paper to spread revolutionary propaganda.
https://new.gwulo.com/node/56861#17~22.28119~114.15565~Map_by_GovHK-Mar…
https://news.sina.cn/sa/2011-10-14/detail-ikftpnny5145928.d.html
Following is a photo of South China Morning Post on Wynham street in the 1920s.