Everything tagged: hotel

64, Mody Road.

"Names of buildings" gives the "Year Built" as 1980, but a photo from August that year shows the building is still under construction.

Wikipedia says:

The 1961 Golden Guide gives the address as: 140, Austin Road.

Position of marker is approximate.

Philip Cracknell has found a mention in a wartime diary that places it opposite the Ritz in North Point, so it should be somewhere near here.

He also notes that during the Japanese invasion, "The hotel received several direct hits and was burnt down".

This hotel was one of the places used to hold internees before they were moved to Stanley Camp in Jan 1942.

The position is approximate, based on this address from the 1948 Telephone Directory:

Luk Hoi Tung Hotel, gr. floor, 147/150 Connaught Rd. C. 23876 „ 1st floor 20083

One of the hotels where Western civilians were interned for several weeks in January 1941, before moving to Stanley Internment Camp.

The 1977 Business Directory gives the address as: 136-8 Austin Road.

The current building on the site keeps the name, and is called the Golden Gate Commercial Building.

The demolition date is an estimate, based on the completion date of the next building here.

Address: 1A Wang Tak Street

The position of the marker is approximate. The descriptions in the articles below say it was at "the junction of Wyndham Street and Glenealy", but I'm not sure exactly which building that was. Location confirmed to be 29 Wyndham Street, see the comments below.

A search for Wyndham Hotel in the old newspapers turns up a couple of hits. First from The Hong Kong Telegraph, 1924-3-11 page 1:

Wyndham hotel.

To be pulled down.

Site for Chinese flats.

The pub here changed its name from New Travellers Hotel to Criterion Hotel in 1914, as described at:

https://gwulo.com/node/15885