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The Old Bank of China Warehouse

Posted: July 12th, 2009 | No Comments »

Bank of China warehouse - Suzhou creek The old Bank of China warehouse (now the offices of a logistics company) along Suzhou Creek is one of the best 1930s buildings left along the Creek. Though the Creek is undoubtedly cleaner than it used to be many of the buildings along the embankments have been raised while it is impossible to follow the pathway along the creek without encountering areas of private land that prevent access – a great shame and a wasted opportunity.

Still, the Bank of China warehouse between the Xizang Lu (formerly Thibet Road) bridge and Wenan Lu (formerly Winchester Road) remains a nice building and in pretty good shape – on the outside at least.

More pics below:

Bank of China warehouse 4 - Suzhou creek

Bank of China warehouse 2 - Suzhou creek

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As someone who divides his time pretty evenly writing about China now and China back then this seemed like a place to throw all the interesting bits that fall through the cracks somehow and never get used anywhere else. It's basically the stuff that doesn't get used in my writing about modern China or in the books I do about old China — i.e. probably of little interest to anyone but me and therefore ideally suited to an obscure blog up a dark cul-de-sac of the Internet - Paul French

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