Everything tagged: hotel

Thanks to Richard Wong for identifying the location:

159 Connaught Road Central, now Kai Tak Commercial Building (1973), just adjacent to Western Market.

moddsey wrote:

The Hotel that occupied 8-10 Ice House Road was called the Grand Carlton Hotel. It opened on 1 October 1908 and was under the management of the Kowloon Hotel. More info from the Hong Kong Telegraph dated 9 September 1908.

1867

"The best establishment is that of the Hotel d'Europe, situated in the Hollywood road, but this is frequently overcrowded on the arrival of the mail steamers from Europe or the North."

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Adam writes:

Caption on the eBay listing is:

Argyle Street on the left.   Prince Hotel, where many Russian from Shanghai after 1949 lived there, at centre

The New Ritz Hotel was designed by Su Gin Djih who was the architect for a number of buildings in the 1950s and 1960s including the New Ambassador Hotel in TST.   http://218.188.25.84/news_attach_file/41_04.pdf

according to 1958 Far Eastern Economic Review address was 893-899 King's Road.

11, Carnarvon Road, TST

1880s - Craigieburn (owner James Anderson)

(rented by the Governor for a few years in the 1890s because Mountain Lodge was not habitable.)

1902 - 1930s Craigieburn Hotel

Public Records Office - R.B.LS. 5 AND 17 - ERECTION OF FIVE-STOREY BUILDINGS ON "CRAIGIEBURN" SITE ,  11.06.1920 - 04.11.1935

2000 -

22 Plantation Road - "Hillcrest"

24 Plantation Road - "Hillview Villas"

2000 map

2002 - 1 Plantation Road

25, Kimberley Road.

This was on the north side of Kimberley Road, next to the old Miramar Hotel.

Recently we've seen a few mentions of this hotel around late 1930's/early 1940's.

Interesting to see the building on the site today is named "Ocean View Court" in English, but may well be using the same Chinese name as the old hotel.

23-25 Nathan Road

Mark's map shows this on Nathan Road between Peking and Middle Roads. 

Here's what we know about it so far. Adam first:

Annelise: