C H I N A
CANTON - SHANGHAI
1892-1895 WORLD TOUR OF GEORGE BULLOUGH
Astor House, Shanghai c.1890.
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Written from first-hand research
and illustrated from his personal Photographic
Archive by George W. Randall co-founder in July 1996 and former
Vice Chairman Kinloch Castle Friends' Association.
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84 - ALBUM XVI * Photographs 17 - 30
Descriptive text relates to period of visit, i.e. early 1890’s unless otherwise stated.
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DESPITE BEING PUBLICLY OWNED IN THE CARE OF NATURESCOT,
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C H I N A * ALBUM XVI
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GARDEN BRIDGE SHANGHAI LEADING TO ASTOR HOUSE
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GARDEN BRIDGE SHANGHAI LEADING TO ASTOR HOUSE
Album XVI * Image 23 * Detail from full size 10½ x 8½ inches
The flag on the German Consulate is visible.
GARDEN BRIDGE SHANGHAI LEADING TO ASTOR HOUSE
Album XVI * Image 23 * Detail from full size 10½ x 8½ inches
The flag on the American Consulate is visible.
The newly created grass lawns and public Gardens on the Bund were opened to Settlement residents in 1886. The European-style gardens were designed by a Scottish gardener and were complete with resting pavilion and a tennis court.
SHANGHAI CLUB
Album XVI * Image
25 * Size 10½ x 8½ inches.
SHANGHAI CLUB
Album XVI * Image 25 * Detail from full size 10½ x 8½ inches
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FURTHER READING ON SHANGHAI: PLEASE GOOGLE-
“Building Shanghai - The Story of China’s Gateway”
by Edward Denison and Guang Yu Ren
Image One of eight: View south-west depicts shipping moored along the Quai de Wampoo in the French concession (granted
in 1849) and the Quai de France added in 1861 to facilitate sea trade between
France and China.
Image Two of eight continues to the right.
This view
includes the offices of the French merchant shipping company,
Messageries
Martimes, created in 1851, and popularly known as “MesMar” or by its initials
“MM” located near Yang King Creek, marking the boundary of the French Settlement.
The single funnel steamboat entering
from the right could be Messageries Maritime’s
3,791 ton “Oxus”, built in 1879.
1871-1914 was
the golden period of French colonial expansion in the Far and
Middle East.
The three-storey Shanghai Club is also visible.
(See image 25.)
This single funnel steamboat could be Messageries Maritime’s 3,791 ton “Oxus”, built in 1879. In 1914 the “Oxus” became trapped in the Black Sea by Turkey and utilised as a Russian hospital ship. In 1918 she was scuttled at Russia's principal Black Sea port of Novorossisk to avoid falling into German hands in World War I.
Image Three of eight continues to the right.
In 1893 a chiming clock was installed in the 110 foot high tower
of the Shanghai Customs House,
the only property on the Bund owned by the Chinese.
Previously a time-ball was raised up a dedicated mast in the
French Concession; halfway to depict 11.45 a.m.,
to the top 11.55 a.m. and released to drop
at 12 noon denoting the precise time.
Image Four (above) of eight continues to the right.
ABOVE: A similar view from a nine image panorama of Shanghai Bund (dated
1898) by the same photographer
more clearly depicting the water tower referred
to.
View westward depicting left to right the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China and the Central Hotel. The Shanghai water tower is discernible in the centre of the print, with
the spire of the Protestant, Gothic style Union Church in Suzhou
Road, by forty-four year old Scottish architect William Macdonnel Mitchell Dowdall, R.I.B.A. built in 1886 just visible extreme right. Dowdall worked in Shanghai for forty years.
Image Five of eight continues to the right. (Detail below.)
The large white building is the German Consulate, the Japanese Consulate to its right.
with the spire of Union Church in Suzhou Road left. The twelve arch wooden Garden Bridge
crosses Suzhou Creek on the north bank of which is Astor House Hotel.
(See Image 23.)
Image Six of eight continues to the right.
Image Six of eight continues to the right
Depicting the
eastern most part of Shanghai which at the time led to open country.
Numerous wharves,
including those of Jardine Matheson, line the river
Image Seven of eight continues to the right.
Image Eight of eight continues to the right.
Detail below.
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CORRECTION PHOTOGRAPHS IN ALBUM XVI CHINA DEPICTING SCENES NOT IN CHINA:
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bear the identification Chinese Houses Hong Kong and no title respectively.
(Correct identification from University of Bristol)I have included this photograph of Aden in Blog 84
because it is in World Tour Album XVI - CHINA - it has been added to Blog 44.
Description of coaling ship at Aden.
Album XVI * Image 17 * No Title * Detail from full size 10½ x 7½ inches.
Album XVI * Image 17 * No Title * Detail from full size 10½ x 7½ inches Hotel de L'Europe, 61 The Crescent, Aden.
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I am interested in the history of steam shipping on the China coast. Panoramas such as that in the Randall Archive present very rare views of China coastal steamers. These are not the larger international service P&O and Messageries vessels in the foreground, but rather the smaller vessels in the background. I was wondering if you could present closeup enlargements, even if somewhat fuzzy, of individual ships?
ReplyDeleteToward the right of Frame 1 are two paddle steamers of China Merchants S.N. Co. The one on the left is probably the KIANG FOO operating to Hankow. The one on the right with a smoking funnel is probably the KIANGTEEN operating to Ningpo.
In the background of Frame 2 on the left behind the two-funneled OCEANIEN class Messageries steamer appears to be the NGAN-KIN, a Hankow service river steamer of the China Navigation Co.
Towards the left of Frame 5 appears to be an unidentified smaller Yangtse river steamer, perhaps a vessel of McBain & Co. In front of her is a Shanghai harbour tender, perhaps the French flag WHANGPOO, servicing the Messageries vessel or one of the fleet of Shanghai Tug & Lighter Co., servicing the P&O vessel straddling Frames 2 and 3.
Near the middle of Frame 6, a small grey-hulled ship, possibly naval, is moored alongside the Old Dock Foundry. Further to the right, two coastal steamers are moored at the Jardine Matheson wharf, doubtlessly hoisting the blue and white flag of Scotland which is the Jardine houseflag.
Finally, toward the left of Frame 7, a small but interesting river steamer, perhaps Jardines, is shown mid-stream.
It would be wonderful to have closeup images of these ships for private study purposes.
Stephen Kentwell