Old Hong Kong Photos ... Volume 3: Photos and further information

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 11/05/2019 - 12:27

Please click on any photo to visit its page, where you can learn more about the scene, ask questions, and add information. If you'd like to order a printed copy, or license a digital copy to use in your project, please note the ID shown below the photo.

 


 

Photo (1): Sulphur Channel

Main photo:

1920s Kennedy Town
Photo ID: BC009

 


 

Photo (2): Central and the Peak, c. 1906

Main photo:

1906 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Photo ID: BA058

 

Additional photo:

c.1922 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Photo ID: EE058

 


 

Photo (3): Central and the Peak, c. 1935

Main photo:

c.1935 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Photo ID: A093

 

Additional photo:

c.1955 View of HK from harbour
Photo ID: A003

 


 

Photo (4): Central and the Peak, 1969

Main photo:

1969. Hong Kong island from across the harbour
Photo ID: A010B

 


 

Photo (5): Staunton Creek

Main photo:

1924 Staunton Creek
Photo ID: A080

 


 

Photo (6): Aberdeen harbour

Main photo:

c.1935 View over Aberdeen harbour
Photo ID: A005

 

Additional photos:

c.1902 Shau Kei Wan
Photo ID: A262

 

c.1900 View of beached sampans along the Yau Ma Tei shoreline
Photo ID: A218

 

1930s Tai O
Photo ID: A180A

 


 

Photo (7): Cheung Chau

Main photo:

c.1930 Cheung Chau
Photo ID: EC036

 


 

Photo (8): Connaught Road

Main photo:

c.1925 Central Praya
Photo ID: EE060

 

Additional photos:

c.1910 Ship's crew at Hong Kong
Photo ID: A095

 

Photo ID: A372, 'Looking northeast over the Bay, from the New Market’. Not yet online.

 


 

Photo (9): Kowloon Wharves

Main photo:

Kowloon Wharves after the 1906 typhoon
Photo ID: BA004

 

Additional photo:

1927 - "Coolies wearing Chinese raincoats"
Photo ID: A229

 


 

Photo (10): The Naval Yard

Main photo:

c.1890 View of Naval Yard, harbour & TST from Scandal Point
Photo ID: A076

 


 

Photo (11): HMS Tamar

Main photo:

HMS Tamar
Photo ID: EE056

 

Additional photos:

In the stoke-hole of H.M.S. Terrible. Hong Kong, China. 1902.
Photo ID: A101

 

1926 Submarines and HMS Titania
Photo ID: ED001

 


 

Photo (12): Naval wedding

Main photo:

1940 Naval wedding
Photo ID: A123

 


 

Photo (13): Naval dry dock

Main photo:

Dry dock at Royal Naval Dockyard
Photo ID: ED012

 

Additional photo:

Photo ID: NA123, 'HMS Dawkins in dock'. Not yet online.

 


 

Photo (14): Taikoo dry dock

Main photo:

Dry dock at Taikoo
Photo ID: ED016

 

Additional photo:

1954 Side-party
Photo ID: EC039

 


 

Photo (15): Royal Engineers

Main photo:

1911 Royal Engineers Detachment, Mount Davis
Photo ID: A169

 

Additional photo(s):

c.1925 Gun in Kowloon
Photo ID: A226

 

1911 West Battery
Photo ID: EL011

 


 

Photo (16): Dragon boat

Main photo:

c.1920 Dragon Boat off North Point
Photo ID: ED007

 

Additional photos:

Beach of North Point
Photo ID: K159

 

1950s Dragon Boat Race at Aberdeen
Photo ID: A021

 


 

Photo (17): Wanchai looking east

Main photo:

c.1950 view across Wanchai
Photo ID: A225G

 

Additional photos:

1930s Panorama from Central to Causeway Bay
Photo ID: A135+6

 

1950s Causeway Bay typhoon shelter
Photo ID: A431

 

c.1960 Kellett Island
Photo ID: A225I

 


 

Photo (18): Wanchai looking west

Main photo:

Wanchai's seafront in 1902
Photo ID: NDA02

 

Additional photo:

After the typhoon: Ah King's Slipway
Photo ID: EM002

 


 

Photo (19): Ah-King’s Paula

Main photo:

Boat under construction
Photo ID: A369A

 

Additional photos:

Photo ID: A369C, Launch out of water on slipway. Not yet online.

 

Launch off Cheung Chau
Photo ID: A369D

 

Cooling off in the sea
Photo ID: A369G

 

Salute!
Photo ID: A369N

 


 

Photo (20): Repulse Bay

Main photo:

1920s Swimming at Repulse Bay
Photo ID: ED015

 


 

Photo (21): Kowloon City Pier

Main photo:

1907 Soldiers swimming
Photo ID: BB022

 

Additional photo:

Cooling off
Photo ID: A180C

 


 

Photo (22): Farewell!

Main photo:

1928 Ticker-tape departure of Empress of Russia from the Kowloon Wharves
Photo ID: EG001