New on Gwulo: 2022, week 18

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Follow several of Gwulo's photo-detectives as they pin down the location of the village in this old slide:
  
  
   
• Ship-breaking at Gin Drinkers Bay
   
• Memories of:
   
  • Living at Mount Nicholson Government Quarters
     
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Any houses in or near Chung Shan Terrace that had swimming pools in the mid-1950s
     
  • The Portland Street Public Toilet and recycling point seems to be an old, brick-built building. Does anyone know how old?
     
  • If you were in Hong Kong in 1952, do you recognise any of the people at this birthday party?
    

    1952: My 4th birthday party in Jubilee Buildings, on the Veranda,
    ​​​​​​​by Ernest Robinson
    
     
• Upgrade update:
  • Timelines and Events are now working on the new server. I've simplified the display of a timeline so instead of the horizontally scrolling timeline with zooming in and out, I display a list of the timeline's events, ordered by date.
  • I've still got to upgrade the Forums, Jurors Lists, Organisations, and Streets, but the end is in sight!
     

Places

• Hong Kong
   
  • Cable hut, Deep Water Bay [????- ]
     
  • Chung Hom Kok Battery - No. 2 Gun Emplacement [????- ]
     
  • HMS Tamar Wreck site [1941-????]
     
  • Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Factory, Wanchai Road [1918-????]
     
  • Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Kellett Island [1940- ]
     
  • Wong Nai Chung Reservoir [1899- ]
     
• Kowloon
   
  • Coal yard, Lai Chi Kok [c.1926-c.1968]
     
  • Disinfecting station, Yau Ma Tei [c.1905- ]
     
  • Ginger factories on K.I.L. 629 and K.I.L. 631, Yau Ma Tei [????-????]
     
  • Oriental Brewery / Hongkong Ice Company, Lai Chi Kok [1908-????]
     
  • Reservoir, Yau Ma Tei [????- ]
     
  • Sanitary Department stables, Yau Ma Tei / Fo Pang [c.1912-????]
     
  • Soy factory, Yau Ma Tei / Fo Pang [????-c.1949]
     
  • 63 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei [1950- ], home to the Mido Cafe
     
  • Yau Ma Tei Market (Market Street) [c.1880-????]
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• New Territories & Islands
   
  • Haven of Hope Sanatorium and Hospital [1955- ]
     
  • Our Lady of Joy Abbey / Trappist Haven Monastery [1951- ]
     
  • Rock Carvings, Po Toi Island [????- ]
     

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Thomas Charles BARCLAY [c.1895-1950], engineer at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery
     
  • Albert BILLINGHAM [1905-1983]
     
  • Vera Nellie BRETT [1901-1985], nurse
     
  • John James CAMERON [1898-????], engineer at Green Island Cement
     
  • Lionel Eugene LAMMERT [1880-1971], auctioneer
     
  • Margaret Scott MCGUFFOG [1901-1978], teacher & VAD
     
  • Mary Margerite RUDOLF (née MCCLAREN) [1903-????]
     
• Other
   
  • Victor ORLOFF [c.1912-1959], Russian violinist
     
  • Ada Maud Woods WOODS (née FITZ STUBBS, aka Maud) [1860-1940], composer, pianist. music teacher
     

Photos
 

Sugar cane press, Wong Chuk Shan

queens_road_central.jpg, by danielwettling

1997 Hong Kong Aerogramme, by Moddsey

1961 Kwun Tong Reclamation, by eternal1966c1

2018 Lyon Light, Rocky Bay Beach, by Moddsey

ma_tau_kok_1930s.png, by simtang

1940 Layout Plan of Kai Tak Airport, by hkgro

2021 Bowen Road British Military Hospital, Southern Entrance, by Moddsey

2020 Cape D’Aguilar Lighthouse, by Moddsey

2021 Chung Hom Kok Battery - No. 2 Gun Emplacement , by Moddsey

2018 Cotton Path - Cast Iron Street Sign, by Moddsey

2020 George V Postbox No. 256, by Moddsey

2020 RHKYC - HMS Vengeance Life Buoy, by Moddsey

1960s Kai Tak Airport, by Moddsey

2022 Old Hong Kong Telephone Co. Telephone, by Moddsey

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