Premises of the Hong Kong Mint after its closure in 1868 were converted into a sugar refinery and the flagpole at the top of its main building had been dismantled.
The foundation stone laying ceremony of the third-generation HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) headquarters in 1934, with the completion of the new building in 1935.
During the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, the Japanese army escorted the HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) international staff to the bank's headquarters to sign the duress notes.
The Hong Kong government gradually replaced paper money in lower denominations with coins since the 1960s in view of the former's shorter life-span. This photo shows the HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) staff burning down old ten-dollar notes.
The headquarters of the Bank of China, HSBC (The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation), and Standard Chartered Bank stood out prominently in the Central District in 1960.
