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RBL 374 - The Lookout
Access by private road via South Bay Road. It seems to have a piece of green garden facing the ocean according to satellic and with similar roof colour as Crow’s nest and Headlands from Headland Road.
Original owned by Mr. William Walter Ritchie, now owned by Green Heights Inc.
Photos that show this Place
1966
2012
Comments
The Lookout in wartime
Philip has a good post about the house in 1941: https://battleforhongkong.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-lookout.html
Crows Nest
The description of The Lookout compares the roof with that of the Crows Nest. My aunt and uncle, Jo & Bill Allman, occupied 9 Headland Road c.1960-71. Would you by chance have any pictures showing their beautiful home? Thanks so much,
Stu Einstein, 535 Castle Street, Castle Heights, Geneva, NY 14456
leased in 1935 to William…
leased in 1935 to William Walter Ritchie.
September 1946 the new owner is listed as American International Underwriters Limited ( now part of the American International Group (AIG)
The AIG company roots go back to 1919 when Cornelius Vander Starr established a firm of insurance underwriters in Shanghai.