New on Gwulo: 2021, week 2

A look at what's new on the Gwulo website ...

 

General

• 2021 started with an interview by the Apple Daily newspaper, chatting about running Gwulo, collecting old photos, and whether it's possible to making a living out of it! Here's the video of the interview:
  
  Than here's the accompanying Chinese article, plus a copy translated into English by Google Translate. The article introduced Gwulo to many new readers - if that includes you, welcome to Gwulo!
   
• Animal visitors: IDJ has posted newspaper clippings about sightings of tigers, more tigers, and whales in Hong Kong in 1936.
   
• Notes & photos of the 1927 Typhoon
   
• Klaus found several Pathe films of Hong Kong scenes from 1968.
   
• Older readers may remember The Railway Tavern in Tai Wai:
  

  The Railway Tavern, Tai Wai - Exterior, by Chinarail
  
  While younger readers may remember riding on this miniature railway:
  

  Shek-Kong-Airfield-Carnival-Miniature railway, by Chinarail
  
  Peter Crush, a.k.a. Chinarail, was the owner of both, and tells us some of their stories.

 

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Places

• Kowloon
  • 17 & 19 Chatham Road [????-????]
  • Au Trou Normand (French Restaurant, First Location) [1964-????], then the second location on Carnarvon Road
  • Cornwall Street Children's Playground [????- ]
  • Golden Glory Mansion [1966- ]
  • Houses on Middle Road next to Blackhead Point [1915-????]
  • Hung Hom service reservoir [c.1895- ]
  • Paul's Mansion / Lucky Court [c.1974- ]
  • Service Reservoir at Bishop Hill [1904- ]
  • ValVerde - 302 Prince Edward Road, Kowloon [????- ]
  • Yau Ma Tei multi-storey car park [1970-2021]
• New Territories
  • Ta Kwu Ling police station [????- ]
  • Tunnels above Lower Shing Mun Reservoir [????- ]
  • Vimy Ridge [????- ]
• Hong Kong
  • Albany Service Reservoir (covered) [c.1905- ]
  • City Hall multi-storey carpark [1959- ]
  • Dam at Haw Par Stream [????- ]
  • Hilltop Trenches and small Tunnel Mount Cameron area [????- ]
  • Hong Kong True Light Middle School [1951- ]
  • Japanese Tunnel Pok Fu Lam Reservoir (4 to 5 m South of PB) [c.1942- ]
  • Lucina [c.1930- ]
  • Sai Ying Pun Market (2nd generation) [1932-????]
  • Top Gear Discotheque [????-????]
  • Utopia Mansions [????-????]
  • Victoria Court [1964- ]
  • Whitty Street Tram Terminus [????- ]
• Other
  • Deborah asks what was the difference between the "Union Theological Seminary" in Canton, and the "Canton Christian College"?
  • Does anyone recognise this arch, and can confirm the location?
    

    Arch - 1949 - Fanling(?), by jj_hk

 

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Book news

The new Volume 4 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell is now available from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (affiliate links).

 

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People

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • C K H BEGLEY [c.1900-????], Salvation Army
  • James Albert BENDALL (aka Jimmy) [c.1904-1967]
  • Vincent Malborn BENWELL [1905-1978]
  • John Smith DINNEN [1893-1966]
  • Edwin Alfred PRITCHARD [1893-1946], China Maritime Customs, and daughter Pamela Therese PRITCHARD [1921-1966]
  • Eileen Hendry TINSON / BELLAMY (née LEGHORN) [1891-1960]
  • Agnes Mary VANTHALL (née GRADY, aka Nan) [1920-1960]
  • Herbert John Maurice VANTHALL (aka Van) [1913-1993]
  • Theodore Allen ZIEGLER [1934-2020]
• POWs:
  • Cecil BOON [1896-1986]
  • Alexander Hugh DINNEN [1914-1992]
  • Ivan Bernard TREVOR (aka Bernard Ivan Trevor TRIETSCHEL) [1900-1978], escaped from Shamshuipo camp
  • Russell Alfred Ernest WATSON [1910-1974]
  • Frederick ZIMMERN (aka Fred) [1909-1977]
• Other:
  • Raoul BIGAZZI [c.1888-1962]
  • Charles BOND [c.1841-1891], French Canadian
  • Thomas CASHMAN [1874-1951], and his son - also Thomas, both policemen
  • Helen Fairlie GERRARD (née HENDERSON, aka Nell) [????-????]
  • Stephen William HALL (aka Steven / Steve) [c.1922-1941], HKVDC
  • Thomas KAVANAGH (aka Tom) [c.1916-????], policeman
  • Thomas Andrew MADAR (aka Tommy) [1905-1990]
  • Vyvyan Henry Copley MOYLE [1872-1958]
  • Alberto Jose OSMUND (aka Mano) [1899-1946]
  • George Walter REEVE [1887-1968], a teacher in HK before WW2
  • J J RICHARDS [????- ]
  • Thomas Richmond ROWELL [1896-1974]
  • Robert Stewart (Stuart) STEVENSON [c.1910-1946]
  • Paul Hannay SYMONS [1909-1946]
  • Tsan Tai TSE (aka James) [????-1938]
  • George Bardo TYSON (aka CHAN Kai-Ming) [1859-1919]

 

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Photos

This photo of the arch shown above comes from an interesting collection taken in 1948-49.

 

Click to view the whole album.

 

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