Restaurant/Cafeteria at 15 Hankow Road, corner of Peking Road.
Earliest mention is in the 1932 licensing session ( February 1932) for liquors. The following was notified:
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Was located at 15 Hankow Road (at the junction with Peking Road), TST. Opening and closure dates are unknown, but closure was 1966 latest when Ho Tung Mansions were demolished.
Earliest mention is in the 1938 licensing session ( November 1938) for liquors. The following was notified:
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Musical pub on 4, Hart Avenue. The building in which the club was located is called "The Hart", it opened in 1976. Famous Jazz location in the 1980's, see SCMP article. Opening date was guessed to be 1977.
Moved to G/F., 53-59 Kimberley Road,, Tsim Sha Tsui - closed-
Musical Pub located at 11A Ashley Road. Opened on 1972-12-16 (source here), still exists.
16, Minden Avenue. (Position of marker is approximate, as there's a new building that occupies the whole block, and just uses lucky number 8 for the whole building.)
Dear all - first time from a long time fan of the page!
I'm wondering if anyone can answer the question of what is the oldest pub in Hong Kong? The best guess I had was jimmys or Ned kellys but I can't find a difinitive answer anywhere. Maybe captains bar in the MO?
I found a mention of a Blue Peter Cafe at 98 Nathan Road in 1948: http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SgouAQAAIAAJ&q=%22blue+peter%22+hon…
That's on the north corner of the Nathan Rd / Granville Rd junction.
Moddsey's photo from 1964 shows the Blue Peter Pub at that same location.
This is linked to the John Olson story - he was the publican of this Tavern for many years.
Initial discussions of its location placed it much further west, based on an address given as "292, Queen's Road West". Today, that address is for a building on the corner of Centre Street and Queen's Road West in Sai Ying Pun.
But in fact the tavern was back in Sheung Wan. We can confirm that from the mentions of the Tavern in the newspaper reports of Annual Licensing sessions:
