David's email address

It's an interesting topic. I would like to know if I can have a jpg version of the 1933 proposed map as well as the map of Ice House in 19o4 for my Chinese Blog. I am now writting something regularly on the history of HK Streets and the buildings in the street. Thank you.

My e-mail: anthonylau99@yahoo.com.hk

Hi Anthony, I've sent you an email about the maps. I've also moved the comments about Forbes Street to their own Place. (Here are some tips on asking questions on gwulo.com.)

Regards, David

Anthony, everything on the 1933 redevelopment is here "http://gwulo.com/node/7432".

I find that using Google search with "site:gwulo.com" gives excellent results. 

Hello David

You will see where - under the same subject heading - I have entered the same message twice - sorry about that - I guess you can delete one (I tried !)

I am really leaving a message for the lady 'Leslie' who has placed this photo album - as you will read in the message I am one of those in the photo.  As you know her email, perhaps you can draw her attention to my message, as it seems she placed this album some time ago and may not notice. It would be nice to make the connection after all these years.

Thank you,

Suzie

Hi Suzie,

I've deleted the extra comment.

Unfortunately 'bisquitzoe' isn't a user on this website, so I don't know her email address. It looks as though you should be able to send her a message via this page: http://community.webshots.com/user/bisquitzoe/messages (scroll down to the bottom, where it says to login to leave a message).

You mentioned you had several relatives interned at Stanley Camp. You might be interested to see this project, which is serialising a couple of diaries from Stanley Camp internees.

Regards, David

Hi, I can't find my comment and request - on the Forum placed yesterday Aug 11

Not sure how to navigate the website.  Help!

David,

As I drift into the infinite I find this technology gets ever more confusing. Having just found this spot  and finding so many wonderful things for me to look at, I am bewhildered and I think it is going to take me a while to find my way around, so my progress is going to be slow.

My excitement emanates from the two years of my childhood that I spent in Hong Kong in 1936 and 7. Dad was a sergeant major in the Royal Artillery, stationed at Lei Yue Mun. (According to the Google map the camp seems to be in the middle of the sea??) On a return visit in 2009 I could only wonder at the sight of the camp which remained in every particular exactly as I left it when, as a ten year old, my family sailed away on the Dilwara in December 1937. Happily it is now the home of a residential activity centre for young people. What a better world this would be, if tomorrow I should wake up to find all military bases so employed.

I have photographs and a story or two, THE typhoon certainly stays in my memory. When, if, I find my way around I hope to come back to you.

Tony Moy

Hi Tony,

If you haven't seen them already, James McAndrew's photos will be interesting for you, as he was in the Royal Artillery, and here at the same time you were:

http://gwulo.com/image/tid/1940

I look forward to hearing your stories, and seeing your photos.

Regards, David

Dear David,

I am submitting a manuscript to Visual Anthropology for publication consideration and the manuscript is entitled, "Hollywood’s Hong Kong: Cold War Imagery and Urban Transformation in Edward Dmytryk’s Soldier of Fortune (1955)", in which I would like to use some of the photos of the film on display in Gwulo webpage for illustrations. The submission is purely academic and non-lucrative. I wonder if it is possible to have the copyright clearance for these photos. Appreciated if you could advise.

Thomas

Hi David

I tried to link all three photos together in the one "image" with one text to cover all three.  But I could not download more than one photo and had to do each one separately.  Though I thought I saw other places where there are 3-4 images within the one posting?  Is it possible to do this?

Also - to be able to upload the photos I HAD to put a place - and I put Pok Lu Fam - even though I'm not sure it IS the place - and I am querying if anyone recognises where it is? - which it is why it would be good to have all three photos in the one image so the hills behind can be seen altogther. 

Kind regards,

Suziepie

Thank you David for fixing the place for the Horse Riding photos. I see Moddsey has suggested another possibility.

Regarding the photo of my parents wedding.  Is is possible to lift or move the small photo in the corner that is covering the head of a groomsman?  I would like to know if anyone recognizes the groomsmen. I have an idea who they are  but I'm not sure.

Also I put a brief description of the place - Rosary church Kowloon - because I did not see that it had already been entered. Thanks.

Kind regards, Suziepie

Hi David

I did as you suggested and re-scanned the wedding photo leaving a 1 inch margin on the left and top and inserted this photo.  BUT its seems to have made no difference. The site has not taken any notice of the white margin on the left and the minature photo is plopped again on top of the groomsman's head.

I notice that Phil recently uploaded a photo of a wedding in 1936 - and that has NO minature photo in the corner at all (even though it would not cover anything crucial if it did).  Is it possible for me NOT to have this minature in the corner?  And why is it there anyway? 

And yes, you are right - the magnification does not seem to work well.

Kind regards, Suzanne

David,

I happened to visit your site on the article of the Kwok Chan compound.  The comments were written by one of his sons.  I didn't recall what his name was.  

I had visited that beautiful Chinese home when I was about 10 years old.  One of Kwok Chan's sons was my classmate in Wah Yan College HK and I was living in Caine Road at the time.  That was a life time away!  I still remember that he came to pick me up in his chauffer driven car (license plate 11) and we played in that mansion for the afternoon.

A couple of years later, he was sent to a boarding school in England and we have lost contact ever since.

The writer struck me as the old friend I used to know.  He didn't disclose his name in his comments.  My old friend was Kwok Wai Chuen (my Cantonese translation).

Hello to David,

I stumbled onto this site t'other day as a result of a Goodle search for information/data regarding my family in HK prior to and after WWII.  Although the search identified some of the family: two of my aunts, my father and one brother, the 'additional' information that was reflected about them was not entirely correct and would need to be corrected.

Would you be so kind to inform me about the process to make corrections and add further information about the Ablong family.

Hi Anthony,

I suggest you leave a comment on each page, describing any mistakes and adding any extra information you'd like to share. The original author of those pages, Brian, is travelling away from home for a few weeks, but I'm sure will be pleased to make any corrections.

Thanks for writing in. It will be good to read your additional information.

Regards, David

I lived on the 4/F at 168 Henessy road, Wanchai, HK from 1049 to 1959.

The building was a 4 storey and to the east side of the Sothern Playground

Would like to have some photos of that building.

Would lke to know any people living around there during the same period etc

Dear David, 

I would like to buy a photo posted by yourself.  However, we want a digital version one instead of a physical photo, can you please let me know how can I do that? 

Best, 

Mo

Dear Mo,

Thank you for your inquiry. I've sent details to your email address.

Regards, David

Hi David

You will see I have tried to put on to the site the few entries from my Dad's little pocket Diary in which he made some entries during his time imprisoned in Stanley Camp.  As the entries do not total much I did not think it worthwhile to put separate entries for each date (as I see others have done).  But if you would prefer I did that then let me know.

In the diary there are also about four pages itemizing his bartering for various things eg: cigs, peanuts, parrots. If it would be of interest I could type these out, or would you prefer I scanned the pages and uploaded the scan? Though it is in pencil and may not be very clear.

Kind regards to you and Grace

Suziepie

Hi Suziepie,

Sorry, I didn't see this before I wrote on the diary page. "Yes please" to individual pages, so they can add extra variety to the daily emails.

The bartering will be of interest too. Was he really bartering parrots while in Stanley? Intriguing! If the pages are not easy to read, it would be best to type them out.

Thanks very much for sharing this, and best regards,

David

David,

The pagoda comparison at 11.12 hrs is the correct one. The previous one can be deleted because it has a spelling error.

Could you also insert it into the topic thread please.

Oh for some warm weather!

hi

in 1975 i was     a recruit inspector at pts.   George Button was Chief pti. I'd like to contact him

best

dan docherty

Dear David,

there is a problem to get a copy of a specific article from the China Mail (August 1888) about first examination at HKCM.

G. H. Choa wrote in his book "The Life and Times of Sir Kai Ho Kai" (The Chinese University Press; ISBN 962 201 873 4) on page 67:

The occasion of the first professional examination held on 6 August 1888 was considered so important and significant that an editorial appeared in the local English newspaper, the China Mail. The editor wrote: ( .... )

The examinations began on Monday, August 6, 1888 and ended on Friday, August 10, 1888. I have from here, no access to the archive of China Mail. One would have to know what day - following the last examination day Friday - this editorial was published. This editorial is of central importance.

Some time ago it was easier to get access to archives on the Internet.

regards

Dieter

Dear David,

a big thank you! I never would guess this top secret "1888-08-13". Now I found everything I hat expected.

What can I do for you? Don't hesitate to ask me.

regards

Dieter

Please help

I changed my email from tomeager@comcast.net to thomaseager36@gmail.com.

I have attempted to change it with no results in Gwulo edit mode, I am still getting email for tomeager@comcast.net.

Thanks for your assistance

Thomas Eager 

Hi Thomas,

The newsletters are sent from a different system, which stores the email addresses separately. I'll delete the subscriptions for your old address, then add in your new address.

You'll receive an email from "Feedburner" for each new subscription. Please click the link in the email to enable the subscription.

Regards, David

Dear David,

At the outset, I would like to commend you for building Gwulo.com an invaluable archival resource for Hong Kong of yesteryear.
 
I work as a blogger with Engel and Voelkers, Hong Kong.  Our principal, Chris Liem was wondering if at all it was possible to republish some of these fascinating images of old Hong Kong in a post on the Engel and Voelkers Hong Kong site? The images will, of course, be credited to Gwulo.com. 
    
Do let us know if it is a viable proposition or not.

Sincerely,

Anjeeta 

Hi David 

How ar you?  We hope you had a good holiday in the UK?  Lots of heat this year we hear!

I have loaded on a couple of photos - first time since the upgrade - I don't know how but the two images repeated themselves!  Could you please delete the two extra 'images'. I can't see where I can do this (without deleting perhaps all?)

Also - 2nd problem - date of images I put at 1952-00-00 but no matter how many times I repeated this - it keeps coming up with 1951 November (?)  It didn't do this before. Can you fix it for me please?

Kind regards,

Suziepie

Dear David,

Great memories of Hong Kong & Kowloon with your wonderful pictures. I went to Hong Kong in 1962 and moved into 27, La Salle Road in the late 60,s !! Just after you left I think.

Kind rergards,

Gordon Duff

Hi Gordon,

Glad to hear you enjoyed the photos, but I can't take credit for them as they were all posted by Mike Cussans: http://gwulo.com/node/15091

I've made a page for number 27, to gather photos and memories: http://gwulo.com/node/15498

If you can add any comments or photos to that page, they'll be very welcome.

Regards, David

I was born on 21 March 1927 at the French Convent Hospital in Causeway Bay Wanchai and I wonder if this building still exists?  I am putting together a history of our family in Hongkong and would be grateful for your confirmation of the above request. Thank you

Rita MacDonald (nee Langston )

Dear Rita,

I've made a page for you at http://gwulo.com/node/29286 to gather any questions and answers together.

Regards, David

David, while most of the family use just "Potts" our correct surname is HUTTON POTTS without a hyphen and I would appreciate if you could make this correction for my grandfather; whose full name (written in our family bible) is George Frederick Cumming Hutton Potts and all the other family members listed on your absolutely fantastic website. Thank you.

Also, is there any way of contacting Analise who is very much involved with researching my grandfather's family's connections to the various founding of sporting events. I would very like much to find any more information that she might have on my family.

My appologies for misspelling her name. My message to Annelise: Is there anywhere else that I can find information on my great grandfather Frederick Hopper Wallace (Esme's father)? I have been unable to find out anything about him, his marriage or (other than Esme) his children. There is one family tree which has his will but I am unable to access it. The family story I grew up with as told by my Dad (George Ronald Hutton Potts) was that he was Captain of the "Cutty Sark" and that he committee suicide after the mutuny. Information on the "Cutty Sark" states that James Wallace was her Captain and the one who committed suicide. I have not been able to discover if this James Wallace is related to Frederick Hopper Wallace or not.

Sorry to trouble you! Was having another look at the post that I made some time ago confirming my personal details and those of my son Tim (who is still serving in the HKP). Decided to make a few minor additions but .....in the process of so doing I seem to have lost the whole thing. My question, is it missing pending approval of the amendment by your good self ....or has it gone forever and will therefore require a complete redraft on my part?

Regards,

Dick Worrall

Hi Dick,

Sorry for that - as you guessed it had got stuck waiting for approval. You can now edit it (and any other of your material) without needing any approval: http://gwulo.com/comment/30788#comment-30788

On a related note I've just posted a photo of children taken in Stanley Camp. If you can recognise anyone, please could you leave a comment there? http://gwulo.com/node/34044

Finally, you were mentioned a few days ago in the "72 years ago" diaries. A belated happy birthday!

Regards, David

Hi David , Just been reading Stepehens comments and I need to contact him about another ship flag mystry that is unrelated to China, is that possible please.

Hi David. 

My grandparents were living on Plantation road for seveal years around 1910. I have some old photos and letters from that period. I just wonder how welcome this old information it is for habitants of the city today. I have understood that this was a period of great poverty for the native population and great wealth for a few europeans on their behalf. Maybe people really hate every reminder of the sad time of colonialism? Should I back off and let bygones be bygones?

Johan

Thank you for bringing my attention to the typo in my Cheung Chau comment David.  I've now posted the revised copy.

In a day or so I will be getting the final PDF proofs of Asia Betrayed: How Churchill Sacrificed The Far East To Save England..  I wonder if you'd care to have a look at it?

Thanks again,  John.

Read the sample: the few photos brought back too many memories of a time long past.  Good effort by you and those that assisted in the publication.

Just ordered 2 copies.  Could you be so kind to sign both copies.

The book will be used to provide substantiation to my proposed documentary on Hong Kong which I am preparing.  Proposed to visit and film the 'battle areas' in late May 2018.

May need a guide to show me around as HK has gone through a tremendous change which I am presuming has affected the areas intended to visit.

Perhaps Ms Annemarie Evans RTHK or you may be around? 

Should you respond to my request, could you do so to my email address.

Best for now.  Keep safe, in good health and enjoy life around you.

Tony

David, I have several photos I wish to upload, but I have never understood what are "tags" so I leave that blank.  Do you want tags? if so please tell me what sort of wording is appropriate.

Thanks and regards,

Gordon

Thanks, David, I can see that tags are useful, so will bear this in mind.

Regards, Gordon

David, if I wish to upload a document, as opposed to a photo, do I need to photograph the document or can you accept scanned pdf?

OK, thanks David.

Sorry, David, I am obviously not familiar with the inner workings of your site, so need to trouble you further.

I have two documents of three pages each (as photos).  When I uploaded them the pages appeared in a random order, which is no good for the reader (I deleted the upload).  How to ensure they stay in order when uploading?

I believe the same may happen with groups of photos.

I have uploaded the three pages, which should be on one page in numerical order of the jpg nos.

Tks

David, I just uploaded some photos which included some unintended duplicates.  I clicked "remove" by these but the programme is requiring an image before it will upload.  Guidance, please.

I cannot find the photos - 11 altogether of dragon boats.  I'll start again and be careful not to load duplicates.

OK, done now, David, plus a few miscellaneous pics.

Dear David

I am glad to see that you have created a good web site for gwulo stuffs and you have been maintaing this very well so far. I have also noticed that you sell books for your precious collected photos. By guessing, to order book printing you might need to place an order for at least 1000 books or more, as for the min order qty, if printed too many and salability of a new book is not good enough, cash flow is thus affected. Now you can order photo book making in China by visiting the web site of www.meipian.cn by which you can order as many photo books or few as you wish, they are now offering good discounts that you might not able to resist with.  You don't have to worry about the min order qty as typically required by traditional printing factory.

The www.meipian.cn is run by NanJing Blue Whale Company and being supported by the mother company of the listed company of Tencent. Up to 2017, Meipian have the 20,000,000 customers in total and I am one of those. I usually use Mepian to keep my photos for my travelling records and comments, at times, I use it to write factory quality inspection reports to record defects and my compaints to factory manager for the produced construction products.

In the Meipian photo book creation platform, you can plug in max 100 photos and multiple text fields of pages of documents - sizable enough for general purposes of publishing.

If you would try Meipian, I would expect you can publish more book titles such as ancient map of hong kong and etc since min order qty and price concern can both be compromised.

Regards.

John

Dear John,

Thanks for the tip. I'm happy with the current printer for the next volume of Old Hong Kong Photos ..., but I'll keep Meipian in mind if I have any smaller side projects.

Regards, David

Hi, I have commented on 2 of the old pillboxes waiting approval. I also wanted to attach some updated photos but couldn't see how to do that. Please advise!

Hi David,

I happened on a post about Tak Sun School (posted by Francis Tsui). I wanted to upload a photo of myself and my story to the same site, but couldn't. Instead my post came up as a separate post.

How can I repost the photo and story to the one and same thread?

Thank you.

Felix Chanduloy (Petit Prince)

Thanks. Did it! Felix Chanduloy

Hi David,

as you have seen, I‘m currently uploading Public Works Reports. I use an OCR software that makes it quite easy converting text, only e.g. annotations and tables are difficult (and mostly don’t appear in the uploads).

Recently, I added the reports for 1890, 1891 and 1892 (please add the latter to the list of reports). For the next weeks I will convert the reports for 1893-1896 as well as for 1889. I couldn't find earlier ones that show more than the expenditures during a year on two pages - not really helpful for our purposes.

Regards, Klaus

David, I changed the title of the 1892 report, but it still doesn't appear in the list you mentioned. What's wrong? Klaus

I had already done most of the 1896 PWD report - I have uploaded it here

Klaus what OCR software do you use? The one I was using did not like the font used in government reports for the 1890s and earlier and would jsut return gibberish

Herostratus, I use https://www.onlineocr.net/. This is a free online tool that allows you to convert  one page documents (see also my post on Gwulo). 

Currently I'm working on the 1889 report (a short one). I downloaded the report as .pdf file, converted each page using Photoshop into a .jpg file and used the tool on the website to convert page by page. This report needs hardly any corrections - this makes it much easier than retyping.

Example:

New Slaughter-House, Extension of Cattle DepOt
and Depots for Pigs and Sheep.

17. A Committee consisting of The Honourable 0. CHADWICK, the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon, and the Surveyor General, having been appointed to report on the question of a site for the proposed new Slaughter- House and Depots for Pigs and Sheep, recommended that these should be erected at Kenneclytown immediately to the -south west of the present Cattle Depot. This site has the great. advantage of concentrating the depots and slaughter-houses for cattle, sheep, and pigs in one locality. A plentiful supply of water which is essential for these purposes, can be obtained from the large nullah which traverses this site, supplemented when necessary by the Pokfularn aqueduct. These establishments should be placed under the supervision of a European Inspector, residing on the spot whose duty it will be to see that the sanitary regulations are strictly enforced. With this precaution, combined with an efficient system of drainage, and an ample supply of water, the sanitary condition of the locality will be amply guaranteed. A survey has been made of the site and the working drawings of the slaughter­house, and pig and sheep depOts, are now in hand.

Just try it. Klaus

David,

how can I change my user name? Currently it’s kesayian@aol.com. I,would instead like it to be kesayian. 

Thank you. 

Klaus,

You can sign up for a free account and convert the whole PDF in one shot, skipping having to separate it into individual pages first.

 I managed to get some of the tables out by rotating them into portrait mode first, then OCR, saved as a WORD doc & then C&P, e.g. for 1982

Thank you. 

David, please also add PWD Report 1893 to the list of reports. Regards, Klaus

How do I get marriage records? I'm interested in the marriage of Mary Elenor Lindblom to Anton Grondahl . She was my Dad's Aunt 

I have seen the recent war diaries.   My father Guy Walker was a prisoner of war and you were sent his diary notes by someon from the Masonic Lodge.  If you type in Guy Walker the information will come up. Please add these to your war diaries.

Thank you

Janise Rutherford 

duaghter of Guy Walker

thank you so much for a wonderful magazine.  By subscribing to your website I have finally found a very long lost dear friend.  Is it possible to email her directly rather than going through your website as I am concerned information might not be protected.

many thanks

Janise Rutherford

Hi David,

today, I created an event for the visit of the Prince Of Wales in 1922 with many photos. But it seems to have vanished as I can't find it any more. Please help.

Regards, Klaus

Update: it re-appeared, don't know why. When I do advanced search and tick "event", its there. Is there any other easier way to find events? Possibly an additional entry in the menu on the left.

One problem remains: how to insert a photo to my comment (Addendum: HMS Renown)? 

P.S. It would work in this comment.

Thank you David, everything fixed. Suggest you share the information about the events menu in your next "what's new letter" 

Regards, Klaus

P.S. The preview option is really helpful (know that from wikipedia)

Hi David,

In order to have consistency of my postings related to JAT incline New Kowloon Boundary stone, I have changed all the description from "NT/NK boundary stone" to "NK/NT boundary stone" instead.
I noticed that all the posting date and time has changed to April 23 2022 instead. 
Is it possible to change back to all my original posting date?

Thank you.

Herman

I just read John's article about the Mandarin Hotel and Hong Kong Land. My mother, Margie, was John's colleague at HK Land and I remember him as I went to the office when I was a youngster. I would like to reach out to John since I am in touch with a couple of ex Hong Kong staff. How do I contact John directly? You may let him have my email address should he wish to reach me. Thanks for your help. 

Thanks David for forwarding my email address to John. He'll probably fall off his chair. Many of his former colleagues mentioned in his article are known to me. 

Hi David, thank you for making Gwulo such an invaluable resource.

I'd like to reach out to my fellow bottle enthusiast bob. Would you kindly share my email address with him?

Please keep up the good work,

Jeff