Friday, May 17, 2019

C H I N A 1892-1895 WORLD TOUR OF GEORGE BULLOUGH ALBUM XVI * Photographs 17 - 30

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.

 BLOG 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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C H I N A   *   ALBUM XVI


















GARDEN BRIDGE SHANGHAI LEADING TO ASTOR HOUSE
Album XVI  *  Image 23  *  Size 10½ x 8½ inches





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

COVER OF SHANGHAI BUND FOLD-OUT.
Kung Tai Studio panorama of Shanghai Bund, China, 1882.



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:



Album XVI CHINA  *  Images 10 and 17  *  Size 10½ x 7½ inches
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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1 comment:

  1. 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?
    Toward 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

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