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1950s Des Voeux Road Central, Sheung Wan

Submitted by moddsey on Thu, 2020-10-22 17:40

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

1950

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Tea room Rocamadour, Rickmansworth, 1957

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Thu, 2020-10-22 00:32

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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

1957

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Tea room Rocamadour, Rickmansworth, 1957

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Thu, 2020-10-22 00:30

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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

1957

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LANE CRAWFORD Ltd-Hot X Buns & Simnel Cakes

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2020-10-13 03:36

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

1950

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1958 Almost completed runway

Submitted by Klaus on Thu, 2020-10-08 00:13

Channel Rock on the right. A line of buoys connected the end of the runway with the rock. <Read more ...>

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

1958

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Kai Tak Airport

runway

aerial photographs

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1950 Looking South from Kowloon Tsai Hill

Submitted by moddsey on Tue, 2020-10-06 06:27

Looking south from the hill at Kowloon Tsai towards Argyle Street. In the centre, Prince Edward Road West runs from left to right intersecting with today's Lomond Road. The 4-storey St. Teresa's Hospital (comparison here from 1940) stands on the southwest corner. Behind the hospital is Argyle Street Barracks. The road at top right is Mission Road (Tin Kwong Road) and leading off it, is the access road to the Central British School/KGV. <Read more ...>

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

1950

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Kai Tak Airport ca. 1950

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2020-10-04 20:49

Believe the photo was taken from Checkerboard Hill. Kowloon Chinese Christian Cemetery on the right. <Read more ...>

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

1950

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Kai Tak Airport

cemetery

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1950 Kowloon City Bus Terminus

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2020-10-04 19:18

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1950

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1950 CNAC & CAT Aircraft Impounded at Kai Tak

Submitted by moddsey on Sun, 2020-10-04 19:13

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1950

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Farewell dinner Klimanek, Hong Kong, 1950

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sun, 2020-10-04 16:12

Philip Harding Klimanek (1883-1965) was born in the Czech Republic, at the time his place of birth was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. In ca. 1905 he started to work for Holland-China Trading Company, in Hong Kong.

In 1939, when Charles Gesner van der Voort arrived in Shanghai to work for the company, he was Charles' superior. In a letter home he wrote: "Played chess with Klimanek in the French Club" [translation Pieter Lommerse, the French Club was Le Cercle Sportif Français, a fashionable place to be in the 1930s and it still exists today]. <Read more ...>

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

1950

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