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Offline keldon

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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 08:46 BST (UK) »
I can't post the image here because I am not sure about copyright but this a similar view to the original. It's on Des Voeux Road. Still trying to ID the building.
https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/view-of-streetcars-travelling-down-des-voeux-road-in-hong-news-photo/514969678?adppopup=true

View from the other direction.
https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/agsphoto/id/16284/


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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 09:51 BST (UK) »
I think it's the Bank of Canton. See this page.
https://gwulo.com/atom/32984

1957 map
https://gwulo.com/atom/30421/zoom

More images here, including one showing the American Express sign which appears in the image linked in my previous post.
https://gwulo.com/node/7526/photos



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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #20 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 10:01 BST (UK) »
Yes, I agree with Bank of Canton. That is a good little 1957 map.  :)
Milligan - Jardine – Glencross – Dinwoodie - Brown: (Dumfriesshire & Kirkcudbrightshire)
Clark – Faulds – Cuthbertson – Bryson – Wilson: (Ayrshire & Renfrewshire)
Neale – Cater – Kinder - Harrison: (Warwickshire & Queensland)
Roberts - Spry: (Cornwall, Middlesex & Queensland)
Munster: (Schleswig-Holstein & Queensland) and Plate: (Braunschweig, Neubruck & Queensland & New York)

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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 10:05 BST (UK) »
Good photos keldon.  :)

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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 10:23 BST (UK) »
I presume the cricket ground referred to is the HKCC ground in Chater Road, before it was moved to Wan Nai Chong Gap in the latish 1970s ?

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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #24 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 10:27 BST (UK) »
Quote from: keldon on Wednesday 08 June 22 09:51 BST (UK)
I think it's the Bank of Canton. See this page.
https://gwulo.com/atom/32984

1957 map
https://gwulo.com/atom/30421/zoom

More images here, including one showing the American Express sign which appears in the image linked in my previous post.
https://gwulo.com/node/7526/photos

Great sleuthing, keldon  ;D

Well done!


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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 10:37 BST (UK) »
Thank you so much keldon! well done.  :D

I might try to find an image of the Gloucester Hotel which appears on the 1957 map, I wonder if my photo was taken from there, as Ruskie suggested, maybe from a hotel?

I'm almost convinced these photos were taken around July 1950 as this is when my grandfather travelled to Osaka. I can't see any other trips in that direction in his photos.

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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #26 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 11:02 BST (UK) »
I think the building closest to the viewer is the Lane Crawford House. So the photo possibly taken from the Gloucester Hotel next  door?

https://gwulo.com/atom/35251

(That map is so useful !)
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