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Pavilion.jpg

Submitted by Nona on Mon, 2020-09-28 11:56
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1950

Chatham Road Houses 1927/28 annotated

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-09-25 16:35
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928

Cropped from Kowloon air view TST 1927-28

This annotated part of the aerial view shows buildings on Chatham Road between Signal Hill and Cameron Road.

St. Joseph's College Branch School 聖若瑟書院分校 [1917-1930]

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-09-25 16:24
Date Place completed: 
c.1917-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1930-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate)

The predecessor of La Salle College, the mother school of Bruce Lee.

Built in 1917, now Windsor Mansion 29-31 Chatham Road South (source)

It's the building north of Lyeemoon Villas (see 1920 map). It was demolished together with the villas in 1929/30 to make way for Lyemun Flats.

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Kowloon air view TST 1927-28

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-09-25 03:05

On Flickr the date given is 1934. 

I'm quite sure that the date is 1927 or early 1928. Peninsula Hotel was finished in 1927, and the tower on Signal Hill received a coupola in the second quarter of 1928 - it's not on the photo.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1928
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aerial photographs
TST

1945 Above TST

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-09-22 02:58

Peninsula Hotel and Holt's Wharf in camouflage. Note also the war damage to the houses on Middle Road.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945
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signal hill
Peninsula Hotel
aerial photographs

RAF Facilities Cameron Road (Cameron Road "Camp") [c.1920-c.1929]

Submitted by Klaus on Mon, 2020-09-21 03:07
Date Place completed: 
c.1920-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1929-12-31 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

In the 1920s, the RAF had temporary facilities in Cameron Road on K.I.L.'s 417,418. and 524. 

Hong Kong Daily Press from 1928-04-23 reports:

The entire engine repair section of the Royal Air Force and six men from the Kai Tack Aerodrome left by the s.s. Bellerophon for home. There are about 72 men in all and they are sailing under the command of Flight Officer Jones, the only officer among the party.

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Cameron Road

Signal Hill 2017

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-09-19 16:18
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Took this photo from my room at the Panorama Hotel (8A,Hart Ave.).

Early Sunday morning. I think domestic helpers, probably from the Philippines, are holding a Christian mass on Signal Hill.

At the upper part of the photo, the former saluting battery can be seen with concrete supports for the guns.

1930s TST Signal Hill

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2020-09-19 03:22

Think that 1930 is a good estimate for this photo.

Left is Holt's Wharf, then Signal Hill with (I guess) Signal Hill Battery/Blackhead Fort. The tower has its cupola, so its definitely between 1928 and 1933. Can't see the lighthouse.

Right of the hill are houses, likely DeJongh family residence, and then buildings under construction: Lyemun Flats / Lyemun Buildings / Harbour View Hotel.

Any other suggestions are welcome.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1930
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TST
signal hill
time ball

1948 Me with my baby amah whose name I know not.jpg

Submitted by Nona on Sat, 2020-09-12 14:09
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1948

13 - 27 Cameron Road Houses (1st gen.) [c.1895-c.1923]

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2020-09-10 23:28
Date Place completed: 
c.1895-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)
Date Place demolished: 
c.1923-01-01 (Year, Month, Day are approximate)

A terrace of two-storey houses on Cameron Road. Probably built around 1895 (together with other houses in this newly developed area) and replaced by four-storey buildings in the early 1920s (??). New houses on a 1927 photo. 

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