Victoria Memorial Hospital, Barker Road, Hong Kong

Victoria Memorial Hospital, Barker Road, Hong Kong

Identifier

NA16-066

Notes

University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China reference number: NA16-066. 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). The Victoria Memorial Hospital, on 15-17 Barker Road, on the Peak, opened on 7 November 1903. It was built between 1897 and 1903 and closed in 1947, after suffering considerable damage during the Second World War. According to the description on Wikimedia Commons the flags on the hospital in this photograph are ‘likely from the opening ceremony’ (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Victoria_Hospital_Hong_Kong_1903.jpg). See NA20-53.

Caption in album or on mount

Victoria Memorial Hospital. Gov/45108/03

Location

Hong Kong

Date

1903

Material

Paper

Media

Black and white photograph

Repository

The National Archives, London

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