Distant View of Banks with Trees

The site of the City Hall is now the old Bank of China and the HSBC building. Precisely replicating the view was impossible, since Chater Garden is surrounded by trees and walls. Given this, the 2015 image was taken from some distance back and also from higher up, on the fifth floor of the Murray Road Car Park. The Former French Mission Building, an AMO Declared Monument, is seen at left in the modern photo. Its precursor, then privately owned, also appears in John Thomson’s image.