Colonial Goods

1974 scene from Bond, shot in Hong Kong, note rickshaw

at TST, Hong Kong

Doesn’t get more colonial than this.

eliaswong:

The old Clock Tower near the Star Ferry concourse in Tsim Sha Tsui is a declared monument and a landmark from the Age of Steam, when it formed part of the Kowloon - Canton Railway terminus. 

Erected in 1915, the distinctive 44-metre red brick and granite tower is a graceful reminder of those Colonial times. But over many pre-war years it had far greater significance for innumerable Chinese migrants for whom the former terminus was the conduit to new lives either in Hong Kong or by ship to distant destinations overseas. 

Italian paisley on Chinese silk, who knew…

at TST