I.L. 1946
I recently posted a photo of a large family mansion being built on this site around 1929. It is marked B in the photo below.
Described as a 'large Chinese family mansion' in the PWD's Annual reports below.
IL 1946 is a curiously shaped lot, with the main section where the building stood, and a hook-shaped narrower section running up and around IL 1911 where the access road was built.
The lot and the building are mentioned in several of the Public Works Department's Annual reports:
Location as shown on HKMS map: 1:2400 213-NE (Ed-1970-01)
This is the last site along Broadwood Road, so I'm guessing it is where 24 Broadwood Road stood, using the initial numbering of the road. [Dec 2024 update: From the comments below it is still unclear which building this was, so the marker is just to show the neighborohood where it likely stood.]
Mr McReynolds either lived next door to 19 Broadwood Terrace in 1926 or next door to 19 Broadwood Road. He also owned a monkey. He is not on Carl Smith nor on the Jurors Lists. It would be useful to verify his actual address in order to confirm the whereabouts of my grandmother, Hannah Warren in 1926, apparently bitten by McReynolds's monkey in one newspaper report. A second newspaper report gave the victim as her daughter-in-law, Cicely Warren and the location Broadwood Road, not Broadwood Terrace.
I believe I now have the final line-up of the owners/residents of the earliest houses in Broadwood Road for the years 1916-1918. I have added the Gwulo links to their names, so that more of their family stories can be read. It will be apparent that several of the owners were extremely wealthy and that different nationalities and religions are represented. Some families had lived in Hong Kong for several generations and built up their wealth gradually. Whether any of the families would have been entitled to own a house on the Peak, I am not sure.
"Abdoolhoosen" seems to be an anglicisation of Abdul Hussein, as spelt on one of the Carl Smith cards that references him. The name "Abdoolrahim" is also an anglicisation. A. Abdoolrahim appears on the Jurors List for many years and seems to have worked his way up from clerk to draughtsman to architect. He is credited on the 1903 list of Authorised Architects of Hong Kong and founded his own company, Abdoolrahim & Co., 34 Queen's Road Central, which also employed other architects.
Continuing my stroll up and down Broadwood Road via the 1918-19 Rate Book, I come to No. 12 [I.L. 2132] belonging to Lau Chu-Pak, located near No. 11 [I.L. 2133] owned by Sir Ellis Kadoorie and No. 13, originally owned jointly by C.E. Warren and J. Olson, but Warren’s name is deleted in the entries for both 1916-17 and 1918-9. In both years Warren is given as the owner of No. 20, “The Towers”. Among his achievements, Lau Chu-Pak founded the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce of which he later became chairman.
Position of marker is approximate, based on maps from HKMS
John and Gertrude Tully were living at 8 Broadwood Road at the time of the death of my grandfather, Charles Warren, in June 1923 and, as neighbours, it is not surprising that they attended his funeral together with their colleagues the Cossarts who lived at no. 22. Asiatic Petroleum, for whom John Tully and Louis Cossart worked, rented several houses in Broadwood Road at the time. Tully came to Hong Kong as a marine engineer. He first worked for the Whampoa Dock Co. and later Taikoo Docks. He retired back to England in 1934.
