Hong Kong at the British Empire Exhibition 1924

The British Empire Exhibition was held at Wembley in 1924 and ran for ten months. At the time it cost the phenomenal sum of £12 million and was the largest exhibition ever staged anywhere in the world – it attracted 27 million visitors.

Hong Kong was a major attraction at the Exhibition and built a whole Chinese street (which probably inspired other Asian countries at other national exhibitions – see my recent post on the Portugal World Fair in 1941 and its Macau Road). Traders sold silk, toys, ivory carvings and other goods. Also included was a Hong Kong tea house where pet birds had their own menu and places. And here the entrance to the Hong Kong pavilion…..