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Image ID19964
TitleShanghai Tramways Offices
CollectionVirtual Shanghai
LocationUnidentified
Date1915
Estimated date1915-1935
Caption in album or on mountManuscript on the back of the photograph: "These Buildings were designed by and erected under the supervision of Mr. F. G. Drewitt while in the employ of Messrs Atkinson & Dallas of Shanghai"; Dated 14th October 1908, and signed Philip Peebles, Manager. FSI.
Image typeBlack and white photograph
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Private RepositoryRaymond Forward - Penzance, UK
Note(s)This photograph was commissioned by Frederick Drewitt to take back to Britain to show the work he had done in Shanghai. Mr. Drewitt worked in Shanghai for 7 years or so, before returning to Britain to join an architectural practice in Penzance, Cornwall UK. Mr. Drewitt is mentioned in a book about Penzance: [1] THE HISTORY OF THE TOWN AND BOROUGH OF PENZANCE - P.A.S. Poole. The Corporation of Penzance. - 1974 (pp. 201-202) for designing large detached houses in 1923, St John's House in 1934 and rebuilt bomb damaged houses in 1948. Mr. Drewitt passed away in 1958. To the left of the building, see the shop of R. B. Austin, Chronometer and Watchmaker.
Keyword(s) [en]building ; shop ; jewellery ; jewelry ; rickshaw ; Drewitt
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