Flooding caused by the 19th July 1926 rainstorm, Queen’s Road, Central, Hong Kong
Collection
Identifier
NA16-105
Copyright
© Crown copyright 2011
Notes
University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-105. 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. Negative cracked prior to making the print - and retouched. See NA16-102, NA16-103, NA16-104, 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
26
Related Photographs
Location
Date
July 1926
Material
Paper
Media
Black and white photograph
Repository
The National Archives, London
