File:City of Victoria, Hong Kong.jpg

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Description Great buildings facing harbour constructed since 1891 on reclamation. Part of the City of Victoria, Hong Kong, showing east end of reclamation.
Date between 1899 and 1903
date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9

Picture taken between 1899 and 1903. See below:

  • Queen's Building was completed in 1899.
  • The land for the second generation Hong Kong Club Building was granted in 1895 and the building was completed in 1897.
  • Prince's Building, here under construction, was completed in 1904.
Source G. William Des Vœux (1903). My Colonial Service. Volume 2. London: John Murray. p. 250.
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