{"title":"Ingrams' Hong Kong","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"hong-kong-new-territories-gsgs-3961-topographical-map-from-ww2-air-photos-1952-p-6-112550","title":"Hong Kong \u0026 New Territories—GSGS 3961 topographical map—from WW2 air photos 1952","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Hong Kong and the New Territories—GSGS 3961'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHong Kong and the New Territories spread across this large military topographical map, whose small chart at the right reveals that much of the map's communications and main topographical details were checked by I.S.T.D. against air photographs dated 1943, during the Japanese occupation. This later printing thus preserves a record of wartime photographic checking alongside its detailed contours, settlements, roads and railway. From Victoria and Kowloon, the map extends across Lantau, Deep Bay and Mirs Bay to the boundary at Sham Chun. Sha Tin’s open estuary and the small settlements around Tai Po precede their transformation into new towns, while Plover Cove remains a coastal inlet, before its conversion into a freshwater reservoir in the 1960s. The imprints distinguish the War Office’s 1946 third edition, the Ordnance Survey reprint of 1949 and the code identifying this impression as March 1952. Its extensive rural and coastal detail captures a landscape strikingly different from the densely developed territory familiar today.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274890957147,"sku":"P-6-112550","price":400.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112550a.jpg?v=1791486038"},{"product_id":"victoria-kowloon-hong-kong-street-plan-population-density-map-hmso-1952-p-6-112549","title":"Victoria \u0026 Kowloon—Hong Kong street plan \u0026 population-density map—HMSO 1952","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Victoria \u0026amp; Kowloon — Street Plan \u0026amp; Densities of Population'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eColour turns the street plan of Victoria and Kowloon into a vivid record of Hong Kong’s population, with five shaded categories ranging from below 200 to 1,200–2,000 residents per acre. The darkest shading concentrates in western Victoria and Wan Chai, contrasting with the lighter categories across much of Kowloon. Stonecutters Island still stands apart from the mainland, preserving another striking difference from the later reclaimed coastline. The harbourfront, tightly packed streets and Kai Tak airfield anchor a city whose relationship with the water has since changed dramatically. Printed in August 1952, this folding plan lets the eye move between individual streets and the larger pattern of urban density. Its attraction lies in that combination: a recognisable Hong Kong city plan that also asks where, and how closely together, people lived.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54274891055451,"sku":"P-6-112549","price":220.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-112549a.jpg?v=1791486039"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/ingrams-hong-kong.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}