New on Gwulo: 2020, week 20
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Submitted by David on Sat, 2020-05-16 18:00
I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see the latest additions to the site.
General
- Klaus looks at how Hong Kong's roads were made in the early 20th Century
- C is gathering the history of the Kayamally fabric company.
- The 1933 Jurors list has been typed up and is now online. If you can spare 30 minutes, please could you help us to type up a page of the 1934 list?
- The Ah King Slipway [c.1891-2002], famous boatbuilders in Hong Kong for over 100 years.
- Can anyone identify which of the Dollar Steamship Line ships is shown here:
- If you were in Gun Club Hill School in 1961, can you help identify the people in this class photo?
- Phil has identified the location of another still from Love is a many splendored thing. This one shows Pok Fu Lam Road near its junction with Pokfield Road:
Places
- New Territories
- A recent hillfire has cleared back the vegetation, so the Japanese Pillboxes at Luk Keng [????- ] are much clearer to see than usual.
- Lo Fu Wat Pearl Farm [????- ]
- Tai Sheung Tok 大上托 (formerly Chiu/Chin Lan Chu) [????- ]
- HK Island
- Causeway Bay
- Embassy Court [????-????]
- Empire Court [1958- ]
- Tower Court [????-????]
- Kennedy Road
- Baitul Fakir on Kennedy Road, home to the el Arculli family, at 58 & 60, later replaced by Sakura Court [1978- ]
- 1-3 Togo Terrace [c.1906-c.1920]
- Kennedy Town
- Kennedy Town Gasometer [1935-????]
- Kennedy Town Incinerator [1967-2008]
- Smithfield Cattle Depot (abattoir until 1961) [????- ]
- Other
- Several readers are arranging a visit to some of the old Japanese wartime tunnels
- Lye Mun Reverse 12 Pounder Quick-Firing Battery [c.1916- ]
- War Department Boundary Stone #2, Tai Tam Gap [????- ]
- The marker stones on the paths around Aberdeen Reservoir
- 34, 35, 36, 37 Connaught Road Central [????-c.1965]
- New photos added of The Po Hing Fong Disaster in 1925
- Looking for information about the valley between Tai Hang and the quarry (EOD Depot)
- Shek O Bus Terminus [1955- ]
- Ewo Mess (Jardines) [????-????]
- Causeway Bay
- Kowloon
- Hotel Capitol [????-????]
- Union House (Nathan Road) [????-????]
- TST
- KCR Terminus, TST [1916-1978]
- Kowloon British School [1902- ]
People
- Janise Walker lived in Hong Kong as a child in the 1950s and 60s (KGV school, St Georges Mansion, etc) and would like to hear from anyone who remembers her.
- Readers are looking for any memories of Brian Fowler or John Cherry Inkson. Both were in Hong Kong with the RAF in the 1950s.
- Do readers recognise any of these men of the 54 Field Squadron of the Royal Engineers in Hong Kong in the 1950s:
- POW:
- Geoffrey Cadzow HAMILTON [1917-1988]
- Stanley Camp internees:
- Leo Michael F BARTON [1926- ]
- Alexander Wylie BLACK (aka Alec) [1899-????]
- Margaret Alison Campbell BURKITT (née BLACK, aka Alison) [c.1921-1973]
- Arthur William BLISS [c.1876-1960]
- W BRUCE [c.1896-????]
- William BUCHANAN [1888-1976]
- Claude Bramall BURGESS [1910-1998] later HK's Colonial Secretary
- Ewart Connors OATES [c.1914-1944]
- Ernest Percy SAMMONS (aka Red) [c.1894-1968]
- Beatrice WILKINSON (née DAVIES) [c.1906-????]
- Annie Frances Ada WITCHELL (née NEWELL, aka Dolly) [1894-1980]
- Not interned
- James HUTCHINSON [????-2020]
- Other:
- Charles James BRYANT [1834-1907]
- Thomas Erskine NEAVE and daughter Florence Agnes ALDER (née NEAVE) [c.1909-1978]
- Edith Ethel SOUTHERTON (née WITCHELL) [c.1896-1949]
- William WINCH [c.1848-c.1915]
- Robert Charles WITCHELL [1883-1928]
- Samuel Job WITCHELL [1858-1925]
Photos
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