New on Gwulo: 2018, week 10

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

People

Looking for information about:

• Frederick William PERRY [????- ], a British civil servant who is the father of local actor Anthony Wong Chau-sang (黃秋生)
• Mr. and Mrs. A.E. Murphy, known to have been resident in HK in 1929.
• Adam Morrison HOLLAND [1886-1945], one of the people who died in the American bombing of a bungalow in Stanley Camp.
• Can you identify any of the people in this 1948 photo of a retirement dinner for a staff-member of Holt's Wharf:
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    Harry Blake & Holt's Wharf Colleagues.jpg, by Bob Tatz from Olga Blake's Collection

Memories of:

• A breakthrough on the previous request for information about the Tucker family.
• Naturalisation Certificates for Aaron Landau and Joseph Savitsky.

Places

• Discussion about a building that stood at the edge of the old Kai Tak site, and may have been built by the Japanese in WW2 as their control tower.
• Klaus traces the development of the Ap Lei Chau power station through its 1, 2, 3, then 4 chimneys.
• What was this curious pillbox-like structure near Deep Water Bay?
• Photo showing where many houses were destroyed by bombing in Kowloon during WW2.
• List of streets that were renamed in 1908.
• Wartime army shelters below Shek O Road.
• Rutton Building [????-????]
• Lok Ma Chau Police Station
• White Cottage / White House, Tai Po [1906- ]
• Does anyone recognise this arch, believed to have been near Fanling:
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    Arch - 1949 - Fanling(?), by jj_hk

• Looking for the cave on Lamma in which Vietnamese refugees sheltered in after the 1979 Skyluck freighter sinking

Other

• New features on Gwulo.com: Author Profiles and Author Summaries are now available.
• Bob shows some of the old bottles he's found on the Hong Kong hillsides.
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    Bottles.JPG, by bob

• Memories of a happy day on 1950s Cheung Chau....
• Some mail that was posted in December 1941, wasn't delivered until 1945!
• An explanation of the strange Topee-style hat shown here recently.
• More about the discovery of the Plague bacillus in Hong Kong
• Kai Tak-Air Traffic Controller's anecdote: Perils of Runway 13's road crossing
• How to get copies of Hong Kong wills and probate?
• Remembering leaving Hong Kong for the first time in 1964.

Photos

Royal Ulster Regiment at Racecourse, by Herostratus

Olga Robinson is Passenger.jpg, by Bob Tatz from Olga Blake's Collection

Aerial view of Aberdeen mid 1980s, by Quality_Street

1945 St. Joseph's Home for the Aged, by Moddsey

Shanghai Street 1960's, by mybelair62

1947 York Road, by Moddsey

1945 Kai Tak - RAF Air Traffic Control Operations, by Moddsey

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