Hong Kong (series) - Rod Taylor (1960) - Canossa Hospital Steps, Robinson Road

There is a brief scene of Lloyd Bochner walking along a raised concrete pathway during the "looking for Tully" section in the middle of the Colonel Cat episode. This is a view I have never seen before but thankfully there are a couple of background landmarks that help narrow the location. Look carefully and you can see the Roman Catholic Cathedral down below in the background. This puts us somewhere in the vicinity of the section of Robinson Road that skirts the higher, southern edge of the Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Also, there is a large rectangular structure on the left of the sequence that is still there and is Raimondi College.

Initially, I thought this may have been part of the small walkway that creeps up the hill from Glenealy to Robinson Road, but closer examination of older aerial images confirms that this set of steps was located at the front of the podium terrace where the previous version of Canossa Hospital stood.

The current version of the hospital is an amalgamation of the old building (that Bochner would have been looking at) and a curved addition that goes right up to the edge of the terraced podium level. It looks as though the area where these steps were was incorporated into the car park that now sits under the new facade. Corrections welcome.