New on Gwulo: 2018, week 06

A summary of the last week's new and updated:

People

Looking for information about:

• Can you identify any of the people in this school photo from New Method College in 1952:
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    BARBARA FEREDAY HK2.jpg, by Alan Fereday

• Or the girls at Diana Gaston's party, also c.1952:
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    Diana Gaston's Party - probably 1952.png, by Ngaire Atkinson

• William ANDERSON [????-????], Managing Director of Anderson Music Company and who was one of the first residents of Broadwood Road.
• Isobel Morrison HOLLAND [1915-????], bridesmaid to Helen Wylie in 1936.
• Just three people left to identify in the photo of the KGV Prefects 1953-54.

Memories of:

• Chan SUI-JEUNG (aka SJ) [????-2018]

Places

• Any memories of / information about the Domed House on Kennedy Road [1914-c.1949]? It stood roughly where the petrol station above Monmouth Terrace stands today.
• Lots of details of newly-completed buildings in the Public Works Department Annual report from 1914.
• Who was buried in the unmarked graves of Stanley Prison Cemetery [1947- ] ?
• Blue Bay, 44 Island Road [1949- ]
• Military building near the top of Cloudy Hill [????- ]

Other

• Mike Cussans has arranged a Gwulo lunch in London on 21st February. Click for details.
• Looking for help to identify a British Navy Aircraft Carrier carrying troops from Singapore to Hong Kong in 1951. It was to be decommissioned in Hong Kong.
• Is anything planned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the terrible Racecourse Fire of 1918?

Photos

1938 Trench Digging - Indian Troops (1), by Moddsey

1920s Arsenal Street, by Moddsey

Robins Nest jeep track, by Kenny Lai

GARDEN THEATRE-open-air cinema-SCMP advert, by IDJ

1940 Naval Wedding - Garden Road, by Moddsey

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