New on Gwulo: 2018, week 12

A summary of what's new and updated on Gwulo:

People

Looking for information about:

• Yolanda is looking for books about WW2 that describe "brave acts by Portuguese and Macanese people."
• Alexander Findlay SMITH [1844-1926] was the man behind the Peak Tram. His previous employment on the Highland Railway in Scotland is often mentioned in connection with that. Does anyone know what work he did on the Highland Railway?

Memories of:

• BAAG agent Y C Liang in Macau.
• Cyril Lewis (Butterfield & Swire Managing Director) & Margot Lewis with daughters Christine, Karen and son David, living at Friston in the 1970s.
• POWs digging tunnels for the Japanese.
• Teachers Lily and Alfred Morris.
• Kathleen Mary HYDE-LAY [1926- ]
• Kenneth Sinclair MORRISON [1886-1943]
• The 1925 Jurors List is now online. We've started on the 1926 list, all typed up by volunteers - please spare 30 minutes to help type up a page.

Places

• The demolition of the old Sung Wong Toi (Sacred Hill).
• The Kai Tak Bund reclamation [1928- ], which provided the land for the initial Kai Tak airfield.
• Possible Light MG, Anti Aircraft Position at Mount Davis [c.1939- ]
• More discussion about Po Kong Village.

Other

• Some advanced tips for searching the online collections of old Hong Kong newspapers.
• Extracts from the Public Works Department's annual reports give details of new buildings and reclamations in 1917, 1918 and 1920.
• A clipping from Barbara describes the 1941 plot to kill all the Europeans in Hong Kong.
• M.L. 3513, part of the 1950s Hong Kong Flotilla.
• Some more of those octagonal cast-iron water tanks may still exist.
• Can anyone identify the "F.B.C. & Co." on this cheque?
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    Bank Cheque.jpg, by danielwettling

Photos

1962 Junction of Wellington and Pottinger Street, by Eternal1966

Ricksaws with large wheels, by OldTimer

Empire Cinematograph Theatre c1913, by Herostratus

1972 Tai Hang / Causeway Bay view, by Eternal1966

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