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oriental hotel
1864
DesVoeux Road Central 48 - 58
c.1870
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1890
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1850s impressions of Hong Kong by English visitors reprinted in "The Chater Collection"

Submitted by jill on

I was interested to read the following the accounts of British visitors to Hong Kong in the 1850s reprinted in "Sir Paul Chater. The Chater Collection. Pictures relating to China, Hong Kong," by James Orange, 1924.

The first is by Laurence Oliphant and taken from "The Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's mission to China and Japan in the years 1857, '58, '59":

Royal Buildings North / Cecil Hotel [1904-1954]

Submitted by Herostratus on

Royal/ Chung Tin buildings

 

Inland Lot 1724, secured July 1900

 

Architect was Leigh & Orange

 

Phase 1 (King Edward Hotel end) completed in 1902, leased to Dhunjeebhoy Dorabjee, severely damaged by fire in March 1929

Rebuilt as office block which opened in 1931 (original façade kept), rebuilt portion renamed Chung Tin Building

 

Phase 2 completed in 1904, lower five floors leased to Lane Crawford until 1924

After 1924 building was leased as Hotel Savoy which became Hotel Cecil

 

National Hotel, IL 12A [????-????]

Submitted by David on

Jill writes:

In 1859 the National Hotel appears to consist of three tenements “on I.L. 12 A west of Aberdeen Street”, also given in another item as “I.L. 12 A, Queen’s Road.”

An 1856 map (Plate 3-1c, Mapping Hong Kong) shows Inland Lot 12A is the block of land between Queen's Road and Wellington Street, to the west of the Aberdeen Street steps, shown by the marker above.

Whitfield Police Station / Bay View Hotel / Bay View Police Station - 20 Shaukiwan Road [????-????]

Submitted by annelisec on

From the Public Records Office:

1893 - From the Bay View Hotel, Application for an extention to the present lease.

1898 - Request permission by Mr. J. W. Osborne to sublet the Bay View Hotel

1903 Feb - Recommends the removal of the private reservoir behind the Bay View Hotel, or prohibition of the neighbouring Gardens

1903 - Oct - Re-occupation of the Bay View Hotel by the Police (From AG.Capt. Supt. of Police)

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