New on Gwulo: 2019, week 11

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.

UK readers, please join me in London on 30th March I'll present Gwulo talk #4, and all are welcome to attend. Please click here for details and how to book.

 

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General

• Memories of Hong Kong's Police Launches
• The KCR in 1945: Did the Japanese keep running trains right up til their surrender, and when did the first trains run after liberation?
• Two new Jurors Lists have been transcribed by volunteers and posted online, 1881 and 1929. If you can spare 30 minutes, please join in and help to type a page of the 1930 list.
• The handover of the military areas around today's Queensway, and the construction of Harcourt Road
• New resources:
  • Colonial Film Database, listing 130+ films of Hong Kong taken between 1914 and 1997
  • MIT Visualizing Cultures, with old photos of Hong Kong
• Hong Kong Chinese transported to Australia as convicts
• Pun Lun photographic studio [1864-c.1907]
• New books:
  • The Hong Kong Letters by Gill Shaddick. A memoir of two years in Hong Kong in the 1960s.
  • Bold Venture: The American Bombing of Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong, 1942-1945 by Steven Bailey. A detailed but very readable account of the air raids over Hong Kong in WW2 and the American airmen that flew them.

 

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Places

• Molly is looking for photos or memories of 106-108 Austin Road in the 1940s & 50s - she grew up there
• Remembering RAF Mount Davis in the 1950s
• Building the old Bank of China Building
• Hildesheim Mission for the Blind - Pok Fu Lam Road Location [????-????]
• Ah King Slipway (3rd location) [1955-2002]
• The changing names of Statue Square
• HKEC housing at Causeway Hill
• Cafe de Paris, Kam Tin
• Tai Koo Sugar staff housing [c.1924-????]
• Maryknoll [1935- ] - soon to be demolished?

 

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People

Looking for information about:

• Can anyone identify the man standing on the right or the man sitting? Or his uniform?
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    Thomas Edgar, Thomas Waller and two others.jpeg, by brianwindsoredgar

 

Memories of:

• HK Cadets
  • Eric William HAMILTON [1888-1961]
  • Eric HIMSWORTH [1905-1991]
  • Robert Oliphant HUTCHISON (aka Sandy) [1880-1920]
  • Charles McIlvaine MESSER [1874-1938]
  • Edward Dudley Corscaden WOLFE [1875-1952]
• HK Police
  • Norman DARKIN [1901-????]
  • Cecil REDDISH [c.1910-1964]
  • John Michie
• Cedric Salter
• Alexander Bruce ALLAN [1885-1950] - dockyard police and POW
• Beatrice CHURCH (née MILLS, aka Betty / Boadicea) [1906-1979]
• BAAG
  • Ronald HOLMES [1913-1981]
  • Ernest Derek Glass HOOPER [1903-1996]
  • Colin Mitchell MCEWAN [1916-????]
• Stanley Camp internees:
  • John William DEAKIN [c.1885-1955] - custodian at Government House
  • Ethel Winifred Kate MARGRETT (née THOMPSON, aka Wyn / Winnie) [1899-1991]
  • George Artis PENTREATH [1884-1974]
  • Alfred Charles Septimus PIKE [1883-1942]
  • Sarah Ann PIKE / PEARNE (née STAINFIELD) [1878-1964]
  • Jack Fraser ROBINSON [1901-1962]
  • Jean Frances Marion ROBINSON [c.1912-????]
  • Ronald Ruskin TODD [1902-1980]

 

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