New on Gwulo: 2019, week 25

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.

General

• Notes on the history of Rediffusion [1949-1973], and a request for more information & memories of their services
• How the old tram tickets worked
• HK - Macau Ferries in the 1970s
• What did the capital letter on a rat bin mean?
• Riding on the outside of the carriage on the old KCR

Places

• Memories of
  • Mount Nicholson Government Quarters [1962-2011]
  • The floating restaurant & ballroom at Lai Chi Kok
  • Mr. & Mrs de Martin's house at Tai Po Kau
• Old TST buildings:
  • Beryl [????-c.1925]
  • Craig Millar [????-c.1910]
  • Durbar House [????-????]
  • Greencroft [????-c.1925]
  • Isadale Athol [????-????]
  • Victoria View Terrace [????-????]
• Dry dock at Naval Dockyard [1907-1960]
• The branches of the Nederlandsch-Indische Handelsbank over the years
• Alpha House [1964- ]
• The Belvedere, Plantation Road [????-????]
• British Military Hospital (Kowloon) [c.1967-1996]
• Cable & Wireless Station, Hung Hom [c.1932-c.1967]
• Chai Wan Pools Complex [c.1980- ]
• Choi Hung Estate [1962- ]
• Another cockroach story from Grand Court - not for the squeamish!
• Havelock Terrace, Hung Hom Dockyard [????-????]
• Hung Hom Resettlement Estate [????-????]
• Kai Lung Wan Cemetery [????-????]
• Kowloon City Bus Terminus [????-????]
• The Netherlands India Commercial Bank Building, 16 Des Voeux Rd C. [1906-c.1930]
• North Point Wharves [????-????]
• Riviera Mansion, Causeway Bay [1961- ]
• Tea Garden and restaurant, Ngong Ping [????-c.1984]
• Tin Hau Temple Shau Kei Wan [1873- ]
• Is this Sai Kung?
  • 

    1967 10 HK Sampans b, by John + Judith Mackay

People

• Two new lists are online:
  • The 1930 Juror's List
  • The 1942 list of civilian internees - ie people in Stanley Camp
  • These were put online by volunteers. Please can you spare 30 minutes to put a page of the 1931 Jurors List online?
• Dorothy Muriel ARMSTRONG / BLACKSTONE / CARPENTER (née HOLYOAK) [1905-1982], and first husband Charles Douglas ARMSTRONG (aka Wix / Nipper) [1897-1985]
• Lewis Rhodes BILLINGHURST [1902-1969]
• Frank HARRIS [????- ], MD of Rediffusion
• Captain Cyril Ramsay JONES (aka "Potato") [c.1910-1981], Royal Scots
• James LEGGE [1815-1897]
• Robert MORRISON [1782-1834]
• Victor ORLOFF [c.1912-1959], violinist
• Cecilio Paulo PINTOS [c.1880-c.1960]
• Petrus (Peter) STUYFBERGEN [1884-1946]
• Looking for photos / descendants of BAAG members Lui Kar Yan, Li Fong, Ho Yau, Wu King Hung
• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Henriette Charlotte E AITKEN [1899-1984]
  • James GILCHRIST [c.1880-????], wife May GILCHRIST (née TSU) [c.1898-????], and son Peter A GILCHRIST [1925-2018]
  • Constance Nora Irene GODFREY [????-????]
  • Rhys Caradoc JONES [1901-1995]
  • John LANCHESTER [1888-1955]
  • William MAIR [c.1896-????]
  • Victorina MEJIA (aka Victorina Mejia QUAN) [1902-1997]
  • Donald Oscar RUSSELL [1887-1961]
  • Mary Anna STEVENS [1919-1999]
  • Doris Jane WATSON (née SCOURSE) [1910-2009]

• Looking for info about two military officers who were posted to Hong Kong from late 1945 to 1947, Major K. Hussain & Major D.C. Lightbody

• Can you name any of the people in this 1950s photo of the Tramways staff:

  • 

    HongKongtramways.jpg, by Npatz

Photos

De Jongh family residence, 2 Chatham Road, HK, 1930, by Charles in Shanghai

1967 12 HK fishing in river, by John + Judith Mackay

Hong Kong Tramways.jpg, by Npatz

1966 HK Britain Week decorations, by John + Judith Mackay

1964 HK Kowloon Railway Station.jpg, by John + Judith Mackay

1960s North Point Wharves, by Moddsey

1964 HK 64 Repulse Bay Hotel.jpg, by John + Judith Mackay

Cafe on the Peak 1957, by Bryan Panter

1950 Rediffusion Building, by Moddsey

1964 HK 55 Happy Valley Grandstands.jpg, by John + Judith Mackay

1964 11 HK Kowloon from Kln Peak (1).jpg, by John + Judith Mackay

1964 11 HK Silk dye works.jpg, by John + Judith Mackay

Nathan Road 1957., by Bryan Panter

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