Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-103. 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. Last two digits of the car’s number plate: 74. See NA16-102, NA16-104, NA16-105, NA16-106 and NA16-107 (more photographs of the effects of the 1926 rainstorm on Queen’s Road, Central).

Caption in album or on mount

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

Caption on photograph

24

Location

Hong Kong

Date

July 1926

Tags

• transportation
• hat
• clothes
• road
• street
• car
• damage
• umbrella
• disaster
• mud
• rain
• raincoat
• rubble
• destruction
• weather
• automobile
• debris
• TNA
• National Archives
• rainstorm
• storm
• climate

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The National Archives, London

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