Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-092. Image from an album in The National Archives referenced as ‘HONG KONG 3. Views of Hong Kong from the 1860s to the 1920s' (CO 1069-446). Horizontal sign on the first floor on the left: 中山茶樓 ('Zhongshan chalou' = Zhongshan teahouse). According to the Hong Kong Observatory, the highest record of daily rainfall ever recorded in Hong Kong, is 534.1 millimetres - the 19th July 1926 rainstorm. See https://www.hko.gov.hk/en/blog/00000135.htm. See NA16-091 and NA16-093 (more photographs of the effects of the 1926 rainstorm on Kennedy Town).

Caption in album or on mount

HONG KONG RAINSTORM 19TH JULY 1926. / KENNEDY TOWN

Caption on photograph

41

Location

Hong Kong

Date

July 1926

Tags

• clothing
• building
• stone
• mountain
• hat
• clothes
• shop
• street
• damage
• pole
• disaster
• basket
• sign
• rain
• rubble
• destruction
• porter
• weather
• load
• debris
• TNA
• National Archives
• rainstorm
• storm
• climate

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The National Archives, London

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