Jill writes:
21 Broadwood Road, where Tommy Waller and the Edgars lived, was the last of seven European houses built by my grandfather Charles Warren in the so-called “Ridge Development” of 1915-16. It was set slightly lower than The Towers, - a sort of smaller version and looks as if it had a lovely view. I think it may have been known as "The Cottage" originally.
Charles Warren didn’t sell it within his lifetime, perhaps intending it for his son and family to live in. It was sold in 1924 to a Chinese consortium after his death. It changed hands frequently after that, often mortgaged, and seems to have been used as a source of rental income by its successive owners. The final two transactions were from Charles Leroy Shank, a civil engineer, to Irene Stephanie Goeke, on 1st September 1938. Irene Goeke then sold the house to Hong Kong Tramways on 25th June 1940.
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I've set the marker to where
I've set the marker to where number 21 was on a 1986 map of the area. It is only just above Broadwood Road, and is on the small promontary where the road bends around.
1947 Occupants of 21 Broadwood Road
A number of houses on Broadwood Road were either owned or leased by Hong Kong Tramways Ltd. to their Company staff.
In 1947, 21 Broadwood Road was occupied by Thomas Waller, Chief Assistant Engineer.
Source
1. 1947 Jurors List
Newspaper References 21 Broadwood Road
The newspaper references to 21 Broadwood Road: https://archive.org/search?query=21+Broadwood+Road&sin=TXT&sort=-publicdate
The Bungalow
One of the newspaper references talks of No 21 as being called The Bungalow, which this building is not. Was there a re-numbering at some point and if so, do we know what the original No 21 building was?
Why "The Bungalow"?
I was puzzled by the same question and asked it in the thread https://gwulo.com/media/30157
From the photo uploaded there by Peter Braudé it doesn't look as if the house could have ever been a bungalow. Neither Peter nor Nona Pio-Ulski gave an opinion about that.
Yes, there was a renumbering of the houses in Broadwood Road, but the original no. 21 was The Towers itself. I'm not sure if I have already uploaded the relevant Rate Book page. I will look.