New on Gwulo: 2020, week 24
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Submitted by David on Sat, 2020-06-13 16:00
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
- What's the oldest Hong Kong-made piano still in use? Sue's piano, made by Tsang Fook, dates from the 1920s. Does anyone else have a pre-WW2 piano from Hong Kong Kong?
- The Robinson Piano Company [????- ]
- Chinarail describes the various ways to travel from Hong Kong to the UK by rail in the early 20th century
- Ships at Hong Kong
- RMS Empress of France (1913)
- Dutch Royal Interocean Line’s M.V. TJISADANE
- Rat bin recollections
- Does anybody remember the riding school run in the late 1930s by Bob Charles, a former Australian jockey?
- Phil identified the scene in this slide "A11 Rickshaws" from last weekend's newsletter: it shows actor William Holden at one of the locations used in the film The World of Suzie Wong
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Places
- HK Island
- Building on corner of Aberdeen Main Road and Wu Nam Street [????-????], just inland from where the sampans to the floating restaurants used to load and unload passengers
- Former Army Mess / Victoria Road Detention Centre / UChicago Campus [c.1950- ]
- Fung Leung Kee Watches, Johnston Road, Wanchai [c.1943- ], soon to be demolished
- Hok Tsui Watchtower [????- ] on Cape D'Aguilar
- Hong Kong 1846 - Pagoda House
- Unknown / No. 8 Police Station (2nd generation), IL598 [????-1925]
- Taikoo & Quarry Bay
- Deep Cutting on King’s Road in Quarry Bay Village [1927- ]
- Taikoo Terrace [c.1890-c.1939]
- There's a new information panel about the wartime stoves above Quarry Bay
- Kowloon
- "Clearwater Bay Road, Kun Tong Road and Sai Kung Road ...", new roads in Kowloon in 1947
- Junction of Canton Road and Salisbury Road [????- ]
- Shophouse at #1 Playing Field Road [1932- ]
- W S Bailey & Co.'s Shipyard [????-????]
- Water Police Boat Basin, Tsim Sha Tsui [????-1916]
People
- Stanley Camp internees:
- Mary BLACK (née TAGGART) [c.1903-????] and husband Alexander Wylie BLACK (aka Alec) [1899-1974]
- George William Robert GRIGGS [1885-1956], and son Ronald George GRIGGS [1913-1983] who was a policeman
- Nina SMITH [1911-????]
- Other:
- Ken is looking for any information about his Great Grandfather Mahomed Sewjee Alarakia and a contemporary, Mahomed Arab
- Edward Davidovich BRASILEVSKY [1918-1997]
- Allan COUTTS [1895-1896]
- Constance Bird FOX (née HAMSON, aka Connie) [1901-1963]
- Florence Ada GRIGGS (née REDPATH) [1886-1964]
- Emile LANDAU [1909-1968] and son Harry Marco LANDAU [1933- ]
- Frederick Edward MOONEY [1892-1896]
- A photo of Rudolf ZINDEL [1900-1954]
Photos
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