Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...

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267 x 200 mm. Showing a detachment of Indian and Chinese policemen on parade.

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193 x 157 mm. View looking along an unidentified street, with a Chinese procession in progress, presumably in celebration of the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887.

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268 x 204 mm. View, probably from Bonham Road, looking north eastwards across the Chinese houses of the western section of Victoria, over the Harbour and towards Kowloon.

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Quarter-plate (landscape format).

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271 x 198 mm. An almost identical view to the second print from the right in the panorama at Y3077C/1. This view appears to have been taken on the same occasion, but a few moments earlier.

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Half-plate (landscape format).

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Quarter-plate. [No print]. Missing.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing sloping street in steps with a few people walking past tall buildings on either side].

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Landscape format. To left leads to Hong Kong Harbour: to right leads to open sea. Villages here are quarry villages - quarries being leased out - junks are fighting through against the tide.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...

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[No print]. Missing.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A series of thirty-two photographs taken by Douglas Moore in 1949, depicting views and aspects of the lives and conditions of the inhabitants of Hong Kong. The photographs were printed and mounted for an exhibition at the North Staffordshire Polytechnic in the 1980s. The average size of each print (inner mount measurement) is 290 mm x 360 mm. The photographs are each individually captioned on the reverse and are accompanied by Mr Moore’s introductory caption for the exhibition:Hong...

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268 x 205 mm View showing Chinese housing on the lower slopes of the Peak at the western end on Victoria.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing coolies beside a wall].

Scope and Contents This file includes correspondence regarding Smedley’s appointment, including one section ‘Briefing for High Commissioner’s Arrival’ relating to agriculture, with map attached; list of Smedley’s appointments, 15-23 Jan. 1976; programmes of visits to Brussels, 30 Jan. to 1 Feb. 1976; India, 2-3 Feb. 1976; Hong Kong, 4-5 Feb. 1976; Australia, 6-8 Feb. 1976; material relating to New Zealand Prime Minister Robert Muldoon’s visit to the UK (accompanied by Smedley), 11-15 Apr. 1976; list of guests...

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From the Stanley Road, two hours walk from Stanley. [Distant view of the fort on the hill from the road].

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Quarter-plate.

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Quarter-plate. [Showing tramlines with scrubland on the left and right and a bridge in the distance].

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Quarter-plate (landscape format). In distance Man Shan, the saddleback mountain: police station in middle distance with land office above it.

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75 x 14 mm. A view from Kowloon looking towards the Victoria waterfront with the Victoria Peak rising beyond.

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A view showing the Naval dockyard and breakwater, with the military hospital visible at the left on the hill behind Victoria.

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A view from Kowloon looking towards the Victoria waterfront. Prominent on the shoreline are the headquarters of Siemessen and Co (the second to the right of the large white buildings) the oldest German firm in the Colony, which started business in China in 1846. The building is situated near the junction of Wardley Street and Chater Road. St John's Cathedral can be seen behind the waterfront.