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It opened as a hotel in 1928, but the building was completed earlier than that. From the hotel group's website:

1927 - The Peninsula taken over by military authorities, accommodating The Second Battalion, The Coldstream Guards and a battalion of The Devonshire Regiment; soldiers vacated the hotel a year later.

1928 - The Peninsula officially opened to the public by Sir Wilfred Thomas Southorn CMG, Governor of Hong Kong.

The was the original Hotel back then.  Low rise, high ceiling, with tiled roof.  Now it had become a shopping centre with restaurants, a Wellcome supermarket and various small shops.

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Previously thought to be 7 Carnarvon Road, now confirmed as 14 Carnarvon Rd instead. This is the site of the Grand Hotel - the hotel in which Booth and his family first moved into when they arrived in HK.

Martin Booth's "Fourseas Hotel" aka Sei Hoi Jau Dim as mentioned in Chapter 3 of "Golden Boy".