8 & 10 Hart Avenue (1st generation) [c.1921-c.1963]

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The buildings were semi-detached and are the buildings closest to us in this 1930 photo:

Eastern House, 10 Hart Avenue, by helenwan

Number 8 is on the left, and 10 on the right.

The 1938 Street Index (see page 237 / image 435) notes they stood on K.I.L. 576 R.P. 

The Street Index doesn't give any names for the buildings, but the photo above is titled 'Eastern House', which I guess refers to number 10. Eastern House appears in three years' Jurors Lists, which suggest it was home to the Prata family:

1925 & 1926:

c Prata Henrique Jose Assist. A. A. Lopes   Eastern House     Kowloon

1931:

c Prata Frederico District Engineer China Light & Power Co. (1918) Ld   Eastern House   Hart Avenue

The buildings aren't shown on the 1920 map, but they are shown on a map dated 1922. They are then shown on later maps until a map dated 1964 labels the site as 'Construction in progress'. Based on that I've guessed the dates for the building as [1921-1963].

The front garden of No. 10 extended further than No.8, causing a kink in the road. If you walk that section of Hart Avenue today the old buildings are gone but the road still has a kink in it:

Photos that show this Place

1930

Comments

In this photo from 1927, possibly 8 & 10 Hart Avenue are at the left side.

1927 Cameron Road - Temporary Quarters for RAF Airmen, by moddsey

Left of the Temporary Quarters, a short road can be seen. This should be the first short part of Prat Avenue [1920- ] with 1920s Prat Buildings [????-????]. Further left in the direction of the viewer, the buildings are probably 8 & 10 Hart Avenue. Hart Avenue would run behind these buildings.

The 8 & 10 Hart Avenue buildings should also be visible behind F and G in this annotated photo from 1927.

Chatham Road Houses 1927/28 annotated, by Klaus