RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2801w5938 238 IU, Miss Sheila, Matron, The Grantham Hospital, Aberdeen, HONG KONG. KINOSHITA, Mr. J. H. Palmer and Turner, OTB Building, 160 Gloucester Road, HONG KONG. KNIGHTLY, Mr. F J., 301 Valverde, May Road, HONG KONG. LOCAL LIFE MEMBERS KVAN, Rev. Erik, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. LAI, MI. T. Ch Dept. of Extra-Mural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shui Hing House, 12/F, 23-25 Nathan Road, KOWLOON. LAU, Mr. Michael Wai-Mai, Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. LAUFER, Mrs. B. M B4, Harbour View Mansions, 11 Magazine Gap Road, HONG KONG. LAUFER, Mr. E. M., B4, Harbour View Mansions, 11 Magazine Gap Road, HONG KONG. LAWRENCE, Mrs. B. M. I., 3 Ravenscourt. 24 Mount Austin Road, HONG KONG. LEE, Mr. J. S., 74 Kennedy Road, HONG KONG. LEE, Dr. R. C., C.B.E., J.P, 1 Hysan Avenue, 21st Floor, HONG KONG. LETHBRIDGE, Mr. J. H., Dept. of Sociology, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. LEUNG, Mr. Pak-Kui, c/o Home Affairs Dept., 141 Des Voeux Road Central, International Building, 25/F, HONG KONG. LI, Mr. David K. P., D7 Grenville House. 1 Magazine Gap Road, HONG KONG. LISOWSKI, Prof. F. P., 28 Middleton Towers, 140 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG. LISOWSKI, Mrs. W. Y, 28 Middleton Towers, 140 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG. LIU, Mr. D. H., 305 Prince Edward Road, Flat 5-D, KOWLOON. LO, Mr. T. S., c/o Lo & Lo., Jardine House, 7th Floor, Pedder Street, HONG KONG. LOSERY, Miss Patricia, c/o Russ & Co., Room 1 Baskerville House G/F, 22 Ice House Street, HONG KONG. LUK, Mr. George Ping-Chuen, B-38 Po Shan Mansions, 10 Po Shan Road, HONG KONG. LUM, Miss Ada, 142 Boundary Street, KOWLOON. MACKENZIE, Mr. John, J.P., Management & Planning Services (Far East) Ltd.. G.P.O. Box 9981, HONG KONG. MACKEOWN, Dr. P. Kevin, Dept. of Physics, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. MARDEN, Mrs. J. L., 14 Sheko, HONG KONG. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1979 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/2801w5938 LOCAL LIFE MEMBERS MCCRARY, Mr. Michael, Flat 6A United Mansions, 7 Shiu Fai Terrace, HONG KONG, MCKEIRNAN. Rev. Michael, MM Maryknoll Fathers, Bishop Ford Centre, Tung Tao Tsuen, KOWLOON. 8 Hereford Road, NORONHA, Mr. J. E., Kowloon Tong, KOWLOON. NICHOLS, The Hon. Mr. E. H., 11 Queen's Gardens, Old Peak Road, HONG KONG, OGDEN, Mr. B. J. N., c/o The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corp., P.O. Box 64, HONG KONG. OU, Miss G., c/o French Consulate General, P.O. Box 13, HONG KONG. PAIN, Mr. J. H., J.P. Hong Kong Tourist Association, Connaught Centre, 35/Fl., HONG KONG. PICCUS, Mr. R. P., Continental Can International Corp., Hutchison House, G.P.O. Box 10044, HONG KONG. RAWLINSON, Mr. M. C., c/o Personnel Registry, Police Headquarters, Arsenal Street, HONG KONG. RAYNER, Mrs. C. M., Dept. of History, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. RIDE, Lady, Al Repulse Bay Apartments, 101 Repulse Bay Road, HONG KONG. RITCHIE, Mr. D. J. 912 Hermitage, 75 Macdonnell Road, HONG KONG. RYDINGS, Mr. H. A., MBE, The Library, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG. RUST, Mr. H. A., Palmer and Turner, OTB Building, 160 Gloucester Road, HONG KONG. SEED, Mr. Brian, 1A 92 Main Street, Stanley, HONG KONG. SELLETT, Mr. George, "Pinecrest", N.K.I.L., 3543 Tai Po Road, KOWLOON. SERSALE, Miss Sheila M., IIA Cameron House, 40 Magazine Gap Road, HONG KONG. SHAW, Dr. Brian C., 72 Middleton Towers, 140 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG. SHAW, Mrs. Felicity, 72 Middleton Towers, 140 Pokfulam Road, HONG KONG. SMITH, Rev. Carl T., Chung Chi College, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NEW TERRITORIES. SMITH, Mr. Leslie C., c/o Robert M. Drummond, 37 Dina House, 5 Duddell Street, HONG KONG. SPOONER, Mr. Michael G., The Registry, University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG STEVENS, Mr. Keith G., Apt. 4B, 26 Magazine Gap Road, HONG KONG. SU, Dr. Chung Jen, 155 Blue Pool Road, Flat A, 1st Floor, HONG KONG. 239 ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h Kong to be so), and it had a beautiful mosaic ceiling in the banking hall which was designed by Podgoursky, a Russian." The building was ahead of its time. In 1954 a business associate, the late Harold Palmer, a surveyor and auctioneer in England, said to the author, "When you get to Hong Kong see if the architectural practice started by my grandfather is still in existence". In fact, Palmer and Turner designed the Hong Kong Bank building which was completed in 1935. However Clement Palmer, an early partner, worked with the firm in Hong Kong from about 1882 to 1909. He was responsible for such buildings as the Hong Kong Club (demolished and replaced in the 1980s) which was completed in 1897,9 Victoria Hospital (1903), and Rosary Church (1905), Chatham Road. According to Harold Palmer, his grandfather used to go from his home to his office everyday by boat (he lived in Kowloon perhaps?), and he retired to England in his later forties a rich man. He made his money by land sales rather than as an architect and he was in his nineties when he died. After the People's Republic came to power, in 1949, it gained in prestige locally when the new 17-storey Bank of China, completed in 1950, slightly overtopped the Hong Kong Bank. The Hong Kong Bank then erected a flagpole which gave it the necessary extra few feet!21 In 1959, however, the newly completed Chartered Bank rose about three metres above the Bank of China. Now, in the 1990s, history has partly repeated itself. The 40-storey Standard Chartered Bank looks down once again on the Hong Kong Bank, although the new 70-floor Bank of China is the tallest structure in Southeast Asia. Perhaps, with China taking over Hong Kong in 1997, this dominance is fitting. Nevertheless the new, 52-storey Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters, with its striking prefabricated tubular design and its "aeronautic" technology, has made a major contribution to the skyline, and it has been described as the most innovative bank building in the world. It graced a recent Hong Kong postage stamp. While most of Hong Kong consists of standard, nondescript, concrete-framed buildings, occasionally you come across the unusual, such as the large external concrete trusses from which the roof of the State ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-1989 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/8336pm92h 7 1966. One of the few changes that have taken place over the centuries in methods of scaffolding was that, until the 1970s, bamboo poles were lashed together with “slivers” from the sheath of bamboo, each about one metre long. Since the 1970s, plastic binding has been employed. V Hong Kong Going and Gone, Western Victoria, Hong Kong Branch Royal Asiatic Society (1980); and Tom Briggs and Colin Crisswell, Hong Kong: The Vanishing City (1977); and Tom Briggs and Colin Crisswell, Hong Kong, The Vanishing City, vol. II (1978); and Hong Kong, Then and Now, South China Morning Post (1982). 10 Solomon Bard, In Search of the Past: A Guide to the Antiquities of Hong Kong (1988). Saul Lockhart, "How Long Can Hong Kong's Heritage Last? What Goes Up... Must Come Down", The Asia Magazine (26 April 1981), pp. 3 to 8. 12 "Landmarks safe from demolition”, South China Morning Post (9 June 1990). **Stanley's historical landmark** South China Morning Post (1 October 1983). 13 14 Alice Greenway, "Post Office wins reprieve”, South China Morning Post (11 October 1986). 15 "Landmarks safe from demolition" loc. cit. 16 Michael Chugani, "Hope fades for Murray House rebuilding plan" South China Morning Post (1 July 1985). Paul Gillingham, At the Peak, Hong Kong Between the Wars (1983), pp. 162 to 166. Malcolm Purvis, Tall Storeys, Palmer and Turner Architects & Engineers: The First 100 Years (1985), passim. 19 Lockhart, op. cit., p. 5. 20 Harold Ingrams, Hong Kong (1952), p. 42. 21 Helen Sam, "The Architect and his dream", Property Review Hong Kong Standard (25 September 1986), p. 3. 22 Alan Birch, "The Problems of Progress", Hong Kong Standard Anniversary Magazine (1 March 1978), p. 1. 23 Vaudine England, "The Awnings: Remnants of an empire”, Asia Magazine (28 July 1975), pp. 14 to 16. ================================================================================ RASHKB Journal 皇家亞洲學會香港分會學刊 | RAS-2000 https://digitalrepository.lib.hku.hk/catalog/nk328168n 197 A WALK ALONG HARLECH AND LUGARD ROADS, THE PEAK, AUGUST, 201 BARBARA PARK The Hindustan Gentians, Bottlebrush Ginger and Buttercup Orchids are in flower near Lugard Road as I write. They hide in the shadows, avoiding discovery by all but the eagle-eyed (including the author). What a delight is this road, providing shade, flora, fauna and views to please all but the truly jaded! The road was completed in 1924, and the photographs below provided by Mr. Doug Franklin, are much appreciated. Doug lived at No. 34 Lugard Road, during the time his father was Editor of the South China Morning Post, which I believe was in the 1950s. Photograph No. 3 shows Doug's house, and readers will be astonished to see the barrenness of the slopes thereabouts, which are now very heavily wooded. It appears from this photograph that Mr. Franklin Senior planted the Livistona Chinensis palms which now majestically grace the property. The oldest house on the road is No.27, built in 1911, which previously housed the Swire Mess. This is a grand two-storey dwelling, much restored by the late Mr. Bob Lusher, in which the staircase from the old Hong Kong Club stands proudly. Younger are Nos. 28, 32 and 34, all built around the early 1930s. No. 28 was built by Mr. Lennox Godfrey Bird, senior partner of the architectural practice of Palmer and Turner (still a prominent firm to this day) as his own residence. No. 32 (Dragon Lodge) has had very mixed fortunes over the years, and I am assured by a former resident that the ghosts are very much in residence, and have caused her some distress. No. 30, the apartment house known as Hirst Mansions, was built by the General Electric Company of the U.K., post-war, to provide accommodation for its senior staff, the last of whom, Mr. Alastair Murray, left Hong Kong during the 1980s. No. 25, built as a colonial mansion, and formerly owned by Dr. H. Wen, has been abandoned, and presumably will be demolished, a sad fate for such a beautiful dwelling. The same fate appears about to befall ================================================================================