New on Gwulo: 2018, week 37

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

People

Looking for information about:

• Captain J T THIRLWELL [????-????]
• Kam-fat LAY [1876-????]
• Hugh Fletcher CARMICHAEL [c.1861-1938] and Harold CLARKE [1873-1904], partners in Carmichael and Clarke., Ltd. [1894- ]

Memories of:

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Beatrice WILKINSON (née DAVIES) [c.1906-????] and her daughter Joan Patricia WILKINSON [1929-2008]
  • Gwendolene COLTHORPE [1910-1977], QAIMNS nurse
  • Norman Dunn MEFFAN [1890-1977], worked at Taikoo Docks
• Rachel has identified several more of the girls in this 1963-4 photo taken at Maryknoll Convent School. Can you add any more names?
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    Maryknoll Sisters School, form 3A, 1963-64, by Barbara Landau Harding

Places

• Chan Gardens, Argyle Street [????-????]
• 24 Austin Avenue [????-????]
• Junction of Nathan and Peking Roads [????- ]
• 30-32, Des Voeux Road Central [????-????]
• Middle Road Children's Playground [1932-????]

Other

• Can any readers tell rmann what it was like to be a nurse in Hong Kong in the 1960s?
• The link to Russian Restaurants in last week's What's New didn't work. Here's the correct link to the Russian Restaurants.
• To add to Jill's embroidered egg napkins, Timothy adds this embroidered napkin bought in Hong Kong in 1949:
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    Pagoda napkin.jpg, by Timothy Roberts

• Does anyone know the story behind this unusual epitaph?
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    Strange Epitaph, by FrankV

• Guy Shirra investigates “The Sha Tau Kok Incident”, when five Hong Kong Police officers killed, and eleven others wounded, at the Sha Tau Kok Sino–Hong Kong border village on 8 July 1967.
• Francisco das Caldas (aka Francis Caldas) hopes to hear from classmates in Escola Camoes in the 1960s.
• Peter Paget posted several interesting photos of him as a young boy in Hong Kong in 1940. They've helped answer a nine-year-old mystery here on Gwulo.

Photos

Contributor Herostratus has scanned and uploaded several old Hong Kong photo and guidebooks. Here are some samples from his latest addition:

01 Hilly Hong Kong Front Cover, by Herostratus

02 Hilly Hong Kong The Peak, by Herostratus

03 Hilly Hong Kong The University, by Herostratus

04 Hilly Hong Kong The Cenotaph, by Herostratus

1958 Junction of Nathan Road and Austin Road, by Eternal1966

Paget family on beach, by shamian

1930s Sikh Funeral Procession, by Eternal1966

RAF Meteors arrive for scrapping-1962.jpg, by IDJ

Leighton Hill Flats, by Clare Taylor

Click to see all recently added photos.