Gallery: 1940s Hong Kong

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Gallery:

Title	Year
Casualty of War-China Mail-05-07-1947	1947
Dangerous Days-China Mail	1947
Hong Kong Fire Engines at the Japanese Imperial Palace	1946
1945_Resident Certificate.jpg	1945
RM HKG 1946b.JPG	1946
1947 Tiger Balm	1947
1948 RAF Kai Tak - US Navy Consolidated PBY-5 Catalina	1948
View of Tiger Balm Gardens taken from Victoria Park, Hong Kong, China, 1947	1947
1946 Tiger Balm Gardens	1946
1946 Tiger Balm Gardens	1946
尖沙嘴消防局 Tsim Sha Tsui Fire Station 1947	1947
1940s (1.1).jpg	1940
1940s (1).jpg	1940
Hong Kong 1940s.jpg	1945
1940s Junction of Wing Lok Street/Bonham Strand and Morrison Street	1948
Names from the past-Red Lion Inn & Jack Conder-China Mail-16-04-1947	1947
Lyall Scott Glendinning-Missing-China Mail front page-02-05-1947	1947
1946 Japanese War Memorial	1946
Bethel Bible Seminary, 1948	1948
ID cards for all to be introduced-China Mail	1949
Islands in the sun- New layout of traffic islands-HK Daily Press	1940
Python captured at Waglan Island-HK Daily Press-20-09-1940	1940
Mount Davis-Squatter's huts to be replaced	1949
Health Village-North Point	1949
1948 Kowloon Peninsula	1948
A Chinese language advertisement for the Restaurant Tkachenko's	1940s
KWANTI & KAM TIN landing grounds-presumably based on BAAG reports-May 1943	1943
1949 Funeral Procession Passing By Pooi To Middle School	1949
Cemetery	1949
Grampian Road Houses	1949
img641	1949
img670	1949
Aldrich Bay from Lyemun Camp 1949	1949
Kowloon Garden City	1949
1945 Above TST	1945
A.R.P. tunnel's man escapes from Hong Kong	1945
Tai Mo Shan-RAF Station in the clouds	1946
Young witnesses to war	1945
THE ARLINGTON HOTEL-Hub of the universe!-China Mail-05-12-1945	1945
Young girl	1940s
1945 Kowloon wharves	1945
1948 Kowloon wharves	1948
"Hong Kong Mary's Sampan girl"	1940s
Back of photo	1940s
Background	1940s
HK Fish Marketing Org Group Photo	1944
HK Fish Marketing Org Group Photo	1944
Joanna Lumley + sister-Hong Kong-screen-grab	1949
Hong Kong Japanese Surrender 1.jpg	1945
Hong Kong Japanese Surrender 2.jpg	1945
Hong Kong Japanese Surrender 3.png	2018
Chatham and Cameron Roads 1947	1947
Survey of tunnels-China Mail-15-09-1945	1940s
Skyscraper plan in Kowloon abandoned-HK Telegraph-15-06-1940	1940
C.E. Warren-Well Boring-HK Telegraph-18-03-1940	1940
New CHEERO CLUB Formally opened-China Mail-15-12-1949	1949
Kowloon-presumably the flats that had to be demolished to make way for Kai Tak's new runway-19-04-1949	1949
Hong Kong-New Territories -new Army Camps construction-China Mail-15-07-1949	1949
Hong Kong-Harrison Forman speaks to the nation-HK Daily Press-19-08-1941	1941
Hong Kong-pavement letter- box orientation-China Mail-08-03-1949	1949
Diamond Hill hangar-China Mail-16-07-1949	1949
Wartime letter from Hong Kong to Wales	1941
First Day Covers	1940s
Letter of May 28 1942 from PoW Camp	1942
1949, Sha Tau Kok control point	1949
OLD PHOTOS (12.1).jpg	1940s
AA STANLEY 1 (1).jpg	1943
AA STANLEY 1 (2).jpg	1943
Rare postwar receipt issued to Mr. Lo Chung Wan on 10-1-1946	1946
1949 Argonaut - BOAC News Letter	1949
1949 BOAC Argonaut	1949
1940s North Point Reclamation	1943
BARRY CLARKE TANNER, STANLEY INTERNMENT CAMP AUGUST 1944	1944
No. 8a Boundary Stone (1898)	1949
Bailey bridge at Man Kam To 1949	1949
Taikoo Sugar Refinery, Hong Kong, 1940	1940s
Kowloon-Roads renamed	1947
19460907 Graca letter.jpeg	1946
Repatriation Notice No 7-to Australia via HMS Striker-September 1945	1945
Shatin Tiger Cub mauling-China Mail	1949
Bowen Road Group, circa January 1942	1942
Prayer book made in Stanley Camp ca 1942-interior	1940s
Prayer book made in Stanley Camp ca 1942	1942
MAN KIM or KIN-HKYF vehicle ferry	1947
Government 'huts'-Statue Square-1946	1946
Chick's Bridge	1946
Wanchai-Tonnochy Road-new ferry pier	1949
La Salle College reqd. for hospital	1949
Entertaining the Troops in 1946	1946
1947 Carol Bateman (School of Dancing) - Helena May Institute	1947
1948 Peak Tram - MacDonnell Road Stop	1948
Return the YMCA back to its owners-HK Sunday Herald-2 March 1947	1947
Lane Crawford Ltd-Food Parcels for Home-1949	1949
Hong Kong-Lane Crawford-Delicatessen-January 1940	1940
LUNA PARK	1949
Japanese Wartime Tunnel below Braemar Hill AOP.jpg	1940s
Dr. Harry Talbot	1940s
Drawing of a nurse by Dr. Talbot 1943	1943
Married quarters	1942
A 'room'	1940s

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