Soldier, Soldier - Robson Green (1992) - Central Waterfront, Central

At the end of the Lost and Found episode we are shown a  section of the waterfront between what was then Blake Pier and the Vehicular Ferry Pier.

Blake Pier in the background

This whole area has since been reclaimed and redeveloped into the IFC and this short waterfront pathway area was turned into Harbour View Street sitting between Exchange Square and the IFC. In fact, earlier in the year I posted some screen grabs from Yellowthread Street that showed this whole area from a higher angle.

Here's the reminder: http://hongkongandmacaufilmstuff.blogspot.hk/2015/01/yellowthread-street-tv-series-central.html

In case you are curious as to how much this area has changed, I've taken a Streetview image of the place from around the same place as the lower screen grab.I think you'll agree it's quite a change! At least the street's name makes some sort of sense even though there is no longer a view.

Soldier, Soldier - Robson Green (1992) - Queen's Pier, Central

Here's a blast from the more recent past - Queen's Pier in Central, like the neighbouring Central Star Ferry Pier, it recently became victim to the Central to Wanchai reclamation. The whole area of harbour in the background of these two screen shots is now - almost unbelievably - reclaimed, and has the Lung Wo Road running along it.

Soldier, Soldier - Robson Green (1992) - Stanley Fort, Stanley

I think much of Soldier, Soldier centres around Stanley Fort and a quick google search throws up a lot of images from this blog, so it doesn't look as though there is too much in the public domain. So to make up for it here are a few more, plus a nice little coincidence from a couple of weeks back. These images are from the fourth HK-based episode: Lost and Found.

A cricket game on the cricket ground

View of the parade ground

The guardhouse

More parade ground

Building 10 at the back?

Conway House

One of the images I did find during my Google search was the following one of the building in picture 3 which was used as the guardhouse in the TV series. In reality though it appears to have been a contractor's building, as can be seen from this rather excellent picture taken during one of the P.L.A open days: https://flic.kr/p/5HMZcs. Note the 1937 date mark above the door.

The coincidence I am talking about was that during a recent Gwulo.com get together, I found out that one of the regular contributors is actually the cousin of Jerome Flynn - who played Corporal Paddy Garvey in the series. I asked him if he had seen much of him when they were over filming in 1992 and he told me that yes, they had gone over to Stanley Fort for one of the scenes involving  a cricket game and were used as extras in the crowd. So I guess it must have been this episode. Anyway, it turns out that Jerome Flynn's dad (my friend's uncle), Eric, was a child internee during the war in one of the family internment camps in Shanghai and went on to become an actor. You can see his IMDB entry here.