Queen's Road Central

This view is unmistakably of Queen’s Road (then named without the ‘Central’). It was probably taken by John Thomson when he knew the street would be empty, to avoid any movement blurring caused by the slow shutter exposures of the times. Given both the Pedder Street clock tower and the distant slopes, Thomson was looking southeastwards not northwestwards along Queen’s Road. The sedan chair bearer is close to where today the macdonald’s ‘golden arches’ overhang Queen’s Road Central.