New on Gwulo: 2018, week 51

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

People

Looking for information about:

• Brian is looking for information about the DAVIS family, in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation. The husband was a banker with HSBC. Initially they lived in the Sun Wah Hotel, then later they were in Stanley Camp.
• Vanessa is documenting the FERREIRA family, and is trying to find the given names of her great great grandfather.

Memories of:

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • George William Calder CRAIG [1909-1987]
  • Joseph Frederick CHANNING [1915-1997]
  • Vivian Arthur Z GARTON [1890-1966]
  • Fakir Mohammed ARCULLI (aka Tubby) [1905-1956]
  • Ronald N. RENNIE [????- ]
  • Archibald Dougal WYLIE [????-????]
  • Charles Reginald ROWCLIFFE [1900-1991]
  • Elizabeth NANCE [1917-2013]
  • Louis BONNICI [c.1893-1958]
  • James Alexander WATSON [????-????]
  • Elizabeth Ada TEBBUTT (née HINDMARSH, aka Betty) [1910-????]
  • Kathleen Kent GRAY (née DOWNTON) [1914-2001]
  • Edith Mary HAMSON (née WOOD) [1911-2003]
  • Veronica WILLEY (née THIRLWELL) [????-????]
  • James Calder CHALMERS [c.1900-????]
  • Margaret Alexandra WILSON (aka Meg) [1893-????]
• Three soldiers in 1941:
  • Harold Sidney George HALE (aka Sid) [1915-1999]
  • Samuel BROWN (aka Topper) [1914-1944]
  • Arthur John ALSEY [1911-1982]
• More information about the GARDNER family, including a question about where Wilhelm Gahar GARDNER (aka William) [1834-1875] spent his early years in Asia: Macau or Hong Kong? Also new information about the related DANENBERG family.
• Florence Edith Entwhistle PILE (née BOND) [1876-1969]
• Paul Ka-cheung TSUI (aka BAAG No. 65) [1916-1994]
• Eugenie ZAITZEFF [????- ]
• Alfred Horace Steel STEELE-PERKINS [1886-1963]
• Cheung Yu CHAN [1903-????], BAAG wireless operator.

Gwulo book news

Spreading the word - If you've received your copy of the new Volume 2 and enjoyed reading it (I know several orders that won't be read until Christmas day!), please could you take a moment to tell a friend, or leave a rating / review? If you use any of these sites, they'd be a great place to start: Amazon, Goodreads, LibraryThing. Thanks for helping - word-of-mouth is my best chance to find new readers.

Copies sent worldwide - Not surprisingly, most of the orders for Volume 2 have come from Hong Kong, but we've had orders from a wide range of other countries too:

• Australia
• Canada
• Denmark
• Finland
• France
• Germany
• Ireland
• Luxembourg
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Singapore
• Sweden
• Switzerland
• United Kingdom
• United States

A pause in delivery over Christmas - I'm taking a break with the family from December 21-26, so I won't be mailing out any orders over that time. You're still welcome to place your order though, and I'll send it out as soon as the Post Office re-opens after the holidays. Or if you're in Hong Kong you can find copies of Volume 1 & 2 at these bookstores: Bleak House Books - Bookazine - Chung Hwa Book Co. (with branches at the airport) - Commercial Press - Hong Kong Book Centre - Joint Publishing - Kelly & Walsh - Swindon Book Co.

The first mistake in Volume 2 - Thanks to Harry Fynn who wrote in to let me know that I've got battalions and regiments the wrong way around on page 61.

Places

• Klaus tells us about the development of bridges along the route of the Peak Tram, illustrated with then & now photos.
• Can anyone tell us what was inside the Air Raid Shelter in the old Central Police Station site (now Tai Kwun)?
• Can you identify this bomb-damaged house on the Peak, ruined in WW2?
• Happy Retreat / Happy Valley Playground (愉園遊樂場) [c.1898-c.1921]
• Building on western corner of Duddell Street / Queen's Road Central junction [1878-1919]
• Ravencourt - 24 Mount Austin Road [1954-c.1983]
• A timeline of P&T Architects & Engineers Ltd [1871- ], aka Palmer & Turner.
• Moddsey manages to identify the building in this 1950s photo:
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Other

• The latest Jurors List is online - thanks to volunteers billagee1, David, Grace, and wingcli for typing up the 1928 Jurors List. Can you spare 30 minutes? Please help us type up a page of the 1929 Jurors List.
• Memories of learning the Praying Mantis martial art in the 1960s.

Photos

Wan Chai street scene b., by Ivan Croucher

1929 Water Rationing, by Eternal1966

Hong Kong Chinese Children. Kam Tin 1958, by Bryan Panter

Yuen Long shops b., by Bill Connell

R.A.F. Avro York and Hastings Kai Tak., by Bill Connell

Unloading cans of rice Old Kowloon City, by IDJ

Old Kowloon City near Kai Tak, by IDJ

Old Kowloon City from "The Hill of King of the Sung", by IDJ

Cafe Wiseman, by IDJ

1967 Observatory Road, by Eternal1966

GDL direction slab, Shatin Pass, by Admin

1880s Harbour Master's Office, by Moddsey

1963 Shatin Heights Hotel, by Moddsey

Dairy Farm cover, by Brian Campion

Dairy Farm inner, by Brian Campion

Queens Road Central Looking West 1900s, by Herostratus

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