Then and Now: Chapei Fire Station 闸北救火会

Posts from This Journal “then and now” Tag

• Route Gaston Kahn, 80 years apart

  This 1941 photo of the opening of a charity soup kitchen (雷米路粥厂所) in the French Concession is taken at Route Gaston Kahn, near Route Remi. The street…

• Women’s Hospital, and architect T. Chuang’s legacy

  1935: 2019: “The Women's Hospital on Great Western Road, close to the junction of Edinburgh Road, has recently been completed and…

• A blast from the past – China Fibre Container Co.

  In 2008, I was riding my bike in Yangpu and stopped to take a photo of this facade. Could not figure out the full inscription at the time. The…