New on Gwulo: 2019, week 04

A look at what's been added / updated at Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.

Photos

Sek Kong Popsi., by David Green

Engineering staff at Beacon Hill tunnel on Kowloon Canton Ry 1908, by over 14 MILLION views Thanks

Sek Kong Centurian tank., by David Green

Rickshaw fully loaded., by David Green

Cricket Group, ca. 1910 Hong Kong, by Charles in Shanghai

Haven’t a clue where this is other than HK., by Chris F

Chai Wan squatter huts., by David Green

Aberdeen swimmers., by David Green

1979 Lai Chi Kok Bay bridge, by tkjho

Wanchai street., by Roger Gibbons

chater_bungalow.jpg, by Clive Hamilton

Hong Kong Brewery visit 1957 at Sham Tseng., by Bryan Panter

Click to see all recently added photos.

People

Looking for information about:

• William Frank CULVER [1894-1956] - there's a record of a man with the same name in the RAF at Singapore. Were they the same person?
• Rosalina MARQUES D'OLIVEIRA (aka Rosie) [1924-????]
• Andrew Johnston, engineer, born 1844, worked in HK from 1875
• George FENWICK [????-1896], owned a shipyard in Wanchai
• Stanley Camp internees
  • Harry Alan TAYLOR [????-????]

Memories of:

• Nona has added a photo and a cine-film from 1950 showing a wedding in the Cherikoff family
• The Abesser family
• More about the Flying Tigers in last issue's photo of Andrew Chan
• Fred ZIMMERN [1909-????], Francis ZIMMERN [1912-????], Archibald ZIMMERN (aka Archie) [c.1917-1985], Ernest ZIMMERN (aka Ernie) [????-1941]
• A recording of Aileen WOODS [1886-1970] on the radio
• Emily HAHN (aka Mickey) [1905-1997]
• Thomas LOUDON [c.1863-1889]
• Stanley Camp internees:
  •  Claude Ellsworth WHITE (aka Claud) [1893-1952]
  • Norman DARKIN [1901-????]
  • Oscar EAGER [1888-1945]
  • Ernest W BLACKMORE [c.1892-????] and daughter Raymonde Fernande FORSTER / WATSON (née BLACKMORE, aka Ray) [1916-????]
  • Yvette WHITFIELD [????- ]
  • Winifred Monty WHALE [1888-1990]
  • Maurice Alfred JOHNSON (aka Monty) [c.1885-1944]
  • Kenneth George BLAIR [1887-1957]

Places

• Time-ball tower (1st generation) [1885- ]
• Moddsey is documenting Hong Kong's bars, nightclubs and more from the 1960s and 70s, based on his collection of old matchbox labels and other ephemera, eg
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    Chin Chin Bar - Hyatt Regency, Hong Kong, by Moddsey

• Can you tell us anything about Whitfield junior school, Kowloon [????-????]
• Phil has been updating the photos of shop houses around Hong Kong, and has also found a few new shop houses we'd missed before
• Herostratus has added Places for the generations of buildings on the hillside between Kennedy and Magazine Gap Roads.
• Nos. 8-9 Tai Pak Terrace [c.1920- ]
• Derek is updating several of Rob's military sites with photos from recent visits: Pillboxes 021 / 025 / 029,  Lyon Light 029, and Stanley Battery and nearby sites AASL Engine Room, DEL Engine House, DEL 1, & DEL 2
• Are these the foundations of the Shatin Aerial Ropeway?
• Cherry Hill Lodge, Homantin Hill Road [????-1972] - photos added
• Lockhart Road Market [1954-????]
• Chater Bungalow [????-????]
• Lai Chi Kok Bridge [1968- ]

Other

• The first customer review of the new Gwulo book has been posted.
• Memories of the Boundary St / Portland St area in the 1950s & 60s.
• Andrew has posted a couple of interesting documents from the 1950s: an Air Travel Guide for first-time passengers, and a copy of Hong Kong's Storm Warning Signal Card.
• 1957 Typhoon Wendy