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Wanchai 1982

Submitted by Klaus on Wed, 2021-01-13 22:00

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Chinese Methodist Church, Wanchai. This has since been demolished and rebuilt as an office building with the church on the ground floor.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1982
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wanchai
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restaurant

Victoria Park Soccer Pitch 2017

Submitted by Klaus on Sat, 2021-01-02 20:06
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
2017

Victoria Park Soccer Pitch and Children's Playground. In the back is (from right to left) Park Lane Hotel, Windsor Plaza, and Lok Sing Centre.

1963 Hankow Rd TST

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2021-01-01 22:04

Peninsula Hotel on the right, then Hotel Merlin, next possibly Metropole Building under construction,and behind Peking Road is Mohan's Building.  

YMCA building on the left.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1963
Tags: 
TST
hankow road
hotel
Peninsula Hotel

1972 Excelcior hotel nearly completed

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2020-12-08 00:15
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1972
Tags: 
hotel
wanchai

Star Hotel and Rose Hotel(星光酒店及玫瑰酒店)

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-11-20 01:27

Date estimated to late 1950s. (see discussion below)

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1959
Tags: 
hotel
Nathan Road
TST

Peking Road with Hyatt Regency(凱悅酒店)

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-11-20 01:21

Date estimated to end of the 1960s.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1969
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hotel
Peking Road
night club
bar

Hyatt Regency(凱悅酒店)

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2020-11-20 01:13

Alpha House under construction, so the date should be 1963.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1963
Tags: 
hotel
Nathan's at the old Hyatt Regency Hong Kong
Nathan Road
TST

Dutch volunteers, Le Cercle Sportif Français, Shanghai, 1937

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-09-13 02:11

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) was part of a group of Dutch bachelors in pre-war Shanghai. Another member of this group was David van Gelderen (1908-1990), originally from Rotterdam. He arrived in Shanghai in 1933, working for Unilever, a merger of the operations of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937
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van
gelderen
charles
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der
voort
Shanghai
rotterdam
unilever
margarine
unie
lever
brothers
China
japan
chapei
civil
assembly
centre
Jewish
nederlandse
reünisten
vereniging
nrvc
dutch
reunists
association
shipping
travel
bw
blackandwhite
monochrome
repulse
Bay
hotel
volunteers
frank
cabaret
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Palace Hotel advert 1920

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2020-09-03 04:45
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1920

From the

Hong Kong, Repulse Bay, 1937

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2020-08-08 18:31

Charles Gesner van der Voort (1916-1991) was part of a group of Dutch bachelors in pre-war Shanghai. Another member of this group was David van Gelderen (1908-1990), originally from Rotterdam. He arrived in Shanghai in 1933, working for Unilever, a merger of the operations of Dutch Margarine Unie and British soap maker Lever Brothers.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1937
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van
gelderen
charles
gesner
der
voort
Shanghai
rotterdam
unilever
margarine
unie
lever
brothers
China
japan
chapei
civil
assembly
centre
Jewish
nederlandse
reünisten
vereniging
nrvc
dutch
reunists
association
shipping
travel
bw
blackandwhite
monochrome
repulse
Bay
hotel
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frank
cabaret
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