Posts Tagged ‘History’
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PHOTOGRAPHY – HK’s Boom Years: The Best of Fan Ho
Since 1956, highly acclaimed Chinese photographer Fan Ho has won over 280 awards from various exhibitions and competitions around the world. Largely self-taught, he is best known for documenting HK during the boom years in the 50s and 60s. Ho was born in Shanghai and developed a fascination with cities – exploring urban life, alleyways, markets, slums and streets with his camera.
More at Wikipedia. Click for more photography and historical entries.

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HISTORY – Photos from 1962 of Mainland Refugees Fleeing Famine Rejected by HK
As war and famine ravaged the mainland, hundreds of thousands fled to British Hong Kong during the 40s, 50s and 60s…

LIFE Magazine captured the experiences of some of these migrants in an issue from May, 1962…

Some had travelled thousands of miles to begin a new life in the British colony. Meanwhile, the US welcomed only skilled workers…
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HISTORY – A Pictorial History of the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower
Built from red bricks and granite, the Tsim Sha Tsui Clock Tower peaks at 44 metres and once dominated Victoria Harbour. It is now all that remains of the old Kowloon station on the waterfront.
Below is Victoria Terminus in 1914, a few years after the line itself opened in 1910…
Click here to see how the rest of the harbour developed over the decades.
The plan for the terminus was finalised in 1904, but World War I delayed construction…
This shot from 1916 depicts a steam engine, signal box, lower quadrant semaphore signals, wooden level crossing gates, wrought iron spear fencing and the station clock tower. A typical British railway scene in Hong Kong…
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HISTORY – Cool Vintage Hong Kong Tourism Posters
A collection of retro Hong Kong tourism posters. Also tagging as ‘Possibly Racist‘. For more historical entries, click here.

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PHOTOGRAPHY – Pictures of Hong Kong in 1972
Nick DeWolf captured daily life in Hong Kong during a trip to Asia in 1972 – there are hundreds more on his Flickr. It was the same year as the deadly Po Shan Road landslide (video at the bottom) and the year a British luxury liner sank in Victoria Harbour. 1972 was also the year in which President Richard Nixon became the first US President to visit the mainland – arguably the beginning of its opening up.
Click here for newly unearthed pictures from the 50s, here for an ‘old and new’ side-by-side comparison, here for some more vintage shots, or here to see how the HK harbour has evolved over the decades. For all historical entries, click here.
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