We have added five new pictures to Roy Passingham's collection, all taken during an eight-hour stopover; some are easy to spot, such as The Peak and the Clock Tower, but others seem a world apart from today's city.
A collection of rare colour photographs taken of Hong Kong in 1954 have come to light - but can you identify where in the city they were taken?
While some areas are obvious, like The Peak and the Clock Tower, others are barely recognisable, with streets and neighbourhoods that look worlds apart from today's bustling megacity jam-packed with skyscrapers.
The images include street scenes taken in Queen’s Road Central and Pottinger Street, in Central, with its narrow stone steps heading up the slope, plus Jordan Road and Nathan Road in Tsim Sha Tsui.
There is also a spectacular panorama stretching out from The Peak towards Kowloon, created as a montage by combining two, then three, followed by four and, finally, five transparencies - just as the British photographer Roy Passingham intended when he took them.
All the pictures were taken in November 1954 by Passingham, at the time a young gunner with the Royal Artillery Regiment, who arrived on a troop ship en route to England. He had been stationed in Korea for a year while doing his National Service.
“The pictures still look quite good considering their age and having faded a bit,” Passingham said, after looking at his photographs published on the South China Morning Post website.
