New on Gwulo: 2021, week 26

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

General

• Readers are looking for information about:
   
  • Hong Kong apartments and travelling from Canton to Hong Kong in the early 1960s.
     
  • The Hong Kong Police Orchestra or Band, pre-WW2
     
  • An organisation with the initials S T I that was in operation immediately after WW2
     
  • When Interocean House on Java Road was built, the company, Royal Interocean Lines, had a special safe built into the wall of the building which contained: various papers of the company, schedules, employee lists and the house magazine called RIL Post. Does anyone know what happened to that safe after the building was demolished?
     
• Answers to previous questions:
   
  • In the comments to last week's newsletter, The Anglo-Chinese Boundary 1898, there's discussion about whether the border or the village moved at Sha Tau Kok. Klaus has also added more information about the boundary's first marker and the boundary Stones along Chung-Ying Street.
     
  • After lengthy discussions about the location of the 1950s photo of the girl on the springboard, we were surprised to learn it was taken on Lantau at a villa known as Yick Yuen (奕園), and that the villa and its swimming pool still exist today

Book offer, and Gwulo in the press

• My Book One are offering 15% off English-language books, including all four of Gwulo's books. Offer ends on 11 July.
   
• Last week, Dan Ip took listeners to RTHK's 清晨爽利 on a guided trip through the hidden details in two of my photos - one each from my first and second books. The recording is now online, and starts at 05:40 in Part 2.
  

  Photo 1: 1923 Crashed trams on Arsenal Street
   
  

  Photo 2: c.1935 Des Voeux Road Central
   
  

  David with Dan Yip
  
   
• The recent forced closure of the Apple Daily newspaper means their archive of past articles and videos was taken off the internet. I thought that meant the recording of my interview was gone for good, but I'm happy to learn that a copy of the article and video is still available to view online.

 Places

• Hong Kong
   
  • 12 Broadwood Road [c.1916-????]
     
  • 25 Marker stone on Peel Rise [????- ]
     
  • Rural Building Lot 27 (RBL 27), The Peak [????- ]
     
• Kowloon
   
  • Henry's Cafe, Chungking Arcade [????-c.1959]
     
• New Territories
   
  • Milestones along Tai Mo Shan Road
     
• Islands
  • Ma Wan Chung, Lantau [????- ]
     
  • Yick Yuen villa (奕園), Lantau [????- ]

People

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Alvah Weyland Jr BOURNE (aka Al) [1891-1968]
     
  • Lorenz August BUUCK [1905-1993], American missionary
     
  • Charles Ashley HIGGINS [1912-1985]
     
  • Robert Goulding KENDALL (aka Rob / Bob) [1898-1967]
     
  • Norman Leslie Howard RAILTON [1894-c.1946]
     
  • Francis Harold WOODS (aka Timber) [1902-????], policeman, clarinet player
     
• Other
   
  • William ANDERSON (aka Bill) [1919-2021], HKVDC, and in later life became CEO of NCR
     
  • Archibald HUNG / HUNT (aka Archie) [????-????], BAAG
     
  • Hormusjee Rustomjee KOTWAJ [1833-1896], father of Saboojee / Samuel KOTEWALL [????-????], who was father of Mabel Constance LOWCOCK (née KOTEWALL) [????-????]
     
  • Chu-Pak LAU [1867-1922], one of the founders of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce
     
  • Lilian NEAVE (aka Lily) [????-????]
     
  • John O'SULLIVAN (aka Jack / Jackie) [c.1915-1953]
     
  • Mary RAILTON (née NEAVE, aka Mollie) [1897-1998], married to Norman, shown above as a Stanley Camp internee
     
  • Alfred Joseph WALTERS [????-c.1948], chief engineer of Charles Baudouin steam ships, and his wife Kathleen WALTERS (née LYSAUGHT) [????-1919]
     
  • John Charles WHYTE [1824-1871], Irish barrister, worked as Police Magistrate, acting judge and provisional member of LegCo in Hong Kong

Photos

No. 2 Boundary Stone, by Cher Ry

Shek Chung Au check point, by Klaus

Kai Tak-BOAC CUNARD-Boeing B707-5 p.m. arrival from the UK, by IDJ

Kai Tak airport-Korean Airlines-B747 last minute turn onto the runway-idj pic, by IDJ

Kai Tak-still high to get down onto the original 1958 short runway, by IDJ

Kai Tak chequer-board at its cleanest.jpg, by IDJ

Roof-top runway, by IDJ

Empress of Asia at Kowloon Wharves, by Arclight11

Naval Coast Watching stations, by Admiralty/War Department

Railway-street running-pedestrians beware, by IDJ

Green Island lighthouse, and a ferry boat in Sulphur Channel, Hong Kong, by Carstairs, Jamie

WDL10.jpeg, by War Department

WDL2 Belchers point and Fly point Battery, by War Department

Praya East Reclamation Plan as in May 1920, by Chinarail scan from The Far Eastern Review June 1921

Wedding of Mary Neave and Norman Railton.jpg, by edwardalder

Bank of China, by Alison Ferry

30 Lugard Road, The Peak, by Alison Ferry

Norah and Christopher Potter in Stanley Internment Camp by Anton Savitsky, by Chris Potter

Internee Passport renewal Gimson 1, by helenshieldsphotos

Cheung Chau coast watching station(Yellow).jpg, by https://www.facebook.com/HongKongFlotilla/photos

Plaza House, by Philk

Mei Foo aerial view 1970.jpg, by tkjho

Lockhart Road/Liberty Bar, by bbeatle1

Florence Neave portrait Ice House Road.jpg, by edwardalder

Wedding of Mary Neave and Norman Railton.jpg, by edwardalder

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