New on Gwulo: 2019, week 20

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.

 

Dates for your diary 18th May - London - Barbara Anslow. If you couldn't get a seat at Barbara's sold-out talk to the Hong Kong Society, there's another chance to hear her speak on Saturday. Click for details. 1st June - HK - New Gwulo talk. I've been working my way through my collection, scanning in photos that fit the "people" theme of the new talk. Most of them haven't been shown on the Gwulo website before, so expect plenty of new photos & stories. Click for details.

 

General

• German Internment in La Salle College, 1939
• Ships
  • S class passenger cargo liners built between 1947 and 1950 for the British India Steam Navigation Company’s APCAR service between Calcutta, Chinese and Japanese ports.
  • P&O shipping line harbour launch LYEMUN
• A couple of updates on the Gwulo books:
  • Volume 2 is now available to order worldwide from Amazon.com. (Volume 1 will follow soon - Amazon already have the books but they're still processing them.)
  • Here in Hong Kong, both volumes are now available at the St John's Cathedral bookstore.
• Postcards from 1900s Hong Kong
• Looking for info about RHKP Triumph Motorbikes
• More on the Governor's hat
• Holland-China Trading Company [????- ]
• The "Person" page on Gwulo has been updated so that it now shows a person's siblings, as well as their other close relatives.
• Only two pages left to finish transcribing the 1930 Jurors List - can you help us to type a page?

 

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Places

• Chung Sing Benevolent Society School / Bayanihan Kennedy Town Centre [1956- ]
• Clover Hotel / Royal Hotel / Chunghing Hotel, 380 Nathan Road [c.1957-c.1987]
• Commercial Radio (Lai Chi Kok) [1959- ]
• Dent & Co.'s centre building [1863-????]
• Eu gardens / Chan Gardens, Argyle Street [1938-????]
• Hilton Hotel [1963-1995]
• Jingles (Gingle's) Restaurant, 70 Nathan Road, kowloon
• Kowloon Union Church - looking for photos or family stories 
• Pat Heung Police Station [1952- ]
• Shui Ngau Ling cottage area
• Wavell House [????- ]
• Winner House (1st Generation) [1950-c.1965]
• Workshops between Navy's tidal basin and dry dock [c.1907-c.1975]
• Streets
  • Anton Street [1917- ]
  • Landale Street [1917- ]

 

Some mystery locations we hope you can help identify:

• Waterfall
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    Waterfall., by Malcolm Trousdale

• Swimming in rock pool
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    Swimming in rock pool., by Brian Utting

• Buffalo Hides
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    Buffalo hides., by Andrew Suddaby

• Police Station & Check Point
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    Check Point, by Malcolm Trousdale

 

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People

• Chauncey WU [????-????] - did he die in 1943 or 1948?
• Thomas James Johnston FENWICK [1895-????], escaped from Hong Kong with the BAAG
• HKVDC, POW
  • Douglas Thomas SMITH [????-????]
  • Tomas Sydney WHITLEY [????-????]
• HK Police
  • John Roderick Harcourt CLEMENTS [1921-1986]
  • Robert HOGARTH [????-????]
  • Walter Burns SCRAGG (aka Wally) [1921-2018]
• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Irene JONES (née STEVENS) [1926-1991]
• Memoirs
  • Looking for a copy of Wally Scragg's memoirs
  • "Personal history of F.King Paget", in Hong Kong with Standard Oil
  • "Escape from Hong Kong" by Ted Ross - one of the group who escaped by Motor Torpedo Boat on Christmas day, 1941
• If you or your family members lived on the Peak in the 1930s, can you identify anyone in this photo:
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    Homestead Government Flats, Children's Fancy Dress Party circa 1937, by Robbot27

 

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