New on Gwulo: 2022, week 3

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Readers' memories:
   
  • Brian Seed, sports teacher at DBS
     
  • Chan Tuck & Co., tailors
     
• Was the Artillery Observation Post on Mount Parker attacked during the fighting in 1941?
   
• Ida Andrews-Levinge's diary of wartime events, covers her time as a VAD nurse, and then the internment in Stanley Camp, 1941-45
   
• The meaning of "Tiffin"
   
• An unusual boundary discovered, that splits Mount Davis in half
   
• This week's upgrade work focused on the maps we use to set the location and outline of a Place or Street. They now have the scanned paper map overlays available, something I've wanted to have for a long time, as it will make working on old buildings so much easier. Here's a look at the new features in action (if the video doesn't show up in your email, please click this link to see it on Youtube). The next job is to get the rest of the maps working the same way - the map we see when we look at an individual Place, and the maps of "Places tagged xyz" that we use to show groups of Places.
  
   

Places on Hong Kong Island
 

• ICI Godowns, 302 Hennessy Road [????-c.1947]
  

  Hong Kong Chemical Factory Kowloon 1930's.jpg, by danielwettling
  
   
• Lung Fu Shan Viewing Compass War Department Boundary Stone ?? [????- ]
   
• Rose Marie Bar, Gloucester Road [????-????]

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Eleanor Stanley WHITFIELD (née HUME) [1898-1988], and her son Ronald WHITFIELD (aka Ronnie) [1929- ]
     
• Other
   
  • H W BROWNE (aka Bunny) [????- ], POW
     
  • Geoffrey Clayton JITTS [1919-1941], HKVDC, killed in the fighting at Wong Nei Chong Gap.
     
  • Charles John Francis LESBIREL [c.1850-1914], his first wife Marie LESBIREL [c.1850-1883], and his second wife Ann LESBIREL [c.1872-1918].
     

Photos
 

Amusement Park opening, by IDJ

Waterloo Road Hill proposed developments, by IDJ

Lion Rock 1910's 1.jpg, by danielwettling

Hennessy Road 1933, by Herostratus

Hong Kong Waterfront 1868.jpg, by danielwettling

RAF Sek Kong brass paperweight, by ahlam

City Hall 1920's with Parking.jpg, by danielwettling

Alice Memorial Hospital 1987.png, by simtang

Hong Kong Harbour and Kowloon City from the roof of Cable and Wireless
Office, Electra House, Hong Kong - August 1952, by Cable & Wireless
Communications

Hong Kong from the Harbour.jpg, by angie-r

Kiki Rasmussen and Swedish Rhapsody Performance.jpg, by angie-r

Is this Hong Kong / What is the image of?, by CarrickRab

Wedding Procession - Hong Kong or Shanghai? img_0825.jpg, by CarrickRab

Procession img_0857.jpg, by CarrickRab

Wedding Band/Musicians img_0827.jpg, by CarrickRab

Procession img_0859.jpg, by CarrickRab

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