Photographer’s snaps of 1970s Hong Kong given life 5 decades on by grandson he never met

14/05/2026 1 Views

During the Christmas holiday in 2021, Jack Smith discovered a collection of surgical equipment boxes in the garage of his childhood home near London.

The boxes contained around 80,000 35mm film slides taken by his late grandfather Herbert Smith as he travelled around the world between 1945 and 1987, including to Hong Kong in 1979.

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