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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #9 on: Monday 06 June 22 11:05 BST (UK) »
I must confess, I am not well travelled either - thanks go to Mr Google!
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« Reply #10 on: Monday 06 June 22 11:17 BST (UK) »
Nor me neither.

 -  but I also thought maybe Hong Kong  -  there was a larger photo of a scene in Hong Kong,  on RC,  some years ago, and these remind me of  that.
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« Reply #11 on: Monday 06 June 22 12:18 BST (UK) »
Well I never would have guessed HK. I couldn’t have got it more wrong if I’d tried.  ;D

Glad it was found so quickly - well done fiddlerslass!

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« Reply #12 on: Monday 06 June 22 14:08 BST (UK) »
This image looks as if it could be the domed building in picture 1.
It was taken in Pedder Street, old Hong Kong

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« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 07 June 22 10:58 BST (UK) »
Thanks all. I'll have to look for that previous thread Wiggy.  ;)

Amazing buildings in old Hong Kong photos. Thanks for the potential id on the domed building Chris. Whilst similar, I don't think it's quite right. The windows on the top floor on my photo are in pairs, which isn't the case in the Pedder St one. Will keep looking.

Also trying to work out when my grandparents may have been to Hong Kong. I know my grandfather had a business trip to Osaka in the 1950s (I think, will do a bit of checking), I wonder if there would have been a stopover in HK then? I know they stopped in Jakarta on their way to Europe in 1952.

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« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 00:51 BST (UK) »
A couple of photos from the 1950s of what I think is your unusual domed building. It is just left of centre in each photo. HSBC building is on the left in these views. Apparently on Des Voeux Rd, Hong Kong Central, banking district, I still have NOT found what the domed building was called.
Added. So i think your photo in the first post was taken on this street a little further on, looking back towards this area.
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« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 04:34 BST (UK) »
Neale, Maddy’s photo looks to have been taken from a very high viewpoint (almost as high as the tower).

Looking at the photos you found, there doesn’t seem to be a suitable position where the photo could have been taken from.

Do you have any ideas? From the building with the flag atop the other dome perhaps?  :-\

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« Reply #16 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 05:04 BST (UK) »
That road is not straight. In the photos I posted, it goes off a little to the right. I think the building from where the photo was taken is not visible, as it is behind that other large building.
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Re: where is this #2
« Reply #17 on: Wednesday 08 June 22 05:10 BST (UK) »
Yes, that could be the case.  :)