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Hi everyone!
I am currently building a Minecraft version of 1860s hong kong but I lack photographs so I don't know what some buildings look like. Please post any photo you know or have of Hong Kong in the 1860s with the approximate location.
Thank you all!
-Brandon
Does anybody have any old stories or material relating to the Diocesan Boys' School in Mongkok?
Hi everyone!
May I ask where could we find all the historical street indexes? There are a few in HKU Library but all of 1950s or later (with one of 1894 only).
Thanks very much,
Jonathan
A copy of the original is available at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1935/941.pdf
Excerpts:
— Q 4 —
ELECTRICAL WORKS.
19. Works in hand or completed were:—Installations for the new buildings constructed under the Architectural Office and rewiring a number of Hospital, Police and Quarters etc. blocks in Hong Kong and Kowloon.
From:
Hong Kong Government Gazette, May 3, 1940
Order.
The premises described in the Schedule to this order are hereby declared to be protected places for the purpose of the Defence Regulations, 1939.
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Schedule.
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B.-Gas Works
I. The Hong Kong and China Gas Company’s works and premises in Hong Kong at-
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