Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-101. 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). 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. Shop sign: 宏本 洋行 MATSUMOTO & Co. / WINE & SPIRIT / MERCHANT.

Caption in album or on mount

HONG KONG RAINSTORM 19TH JULY 1926. / QUEEN'S ROAD, EAST.

Caption on photograph

20

Location

Hong Kong

Date

July 1926

Tags

• stone
• hat
• clothes
• shop
• street
• damage
• umbrella
• disaster
• sign
• rain
• raincoat
• walking
• rubble
• destruction
• weather
• debris
• TNA
• National Archives
• rainstorm
• storm
• climate

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The National Archives, London

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