New on Gwulo: 2021, week 34

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

General
 

• Hong Kong Colonial Military Lands account (1900-1940)
   
• "Cafe Weismann" vs "Cafe Wiseman"
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
   
  • The origin of the feral yellow crested cockatoos in central ?
     
  • Photos of Richard Chamberlain FAITHFULL, a solicitor in Hong Kong during the years 1912-1917
     
  • Contact details for Merrilyn STEWART, daughter of William Alfred STEWART

Places
 

• Hong Kong
   
  • Luk Hoi Tung Hotel [????-????], one of the hotels / brothels where internees were kept before they were sent in to Stanley Camp
     
  • Naval Boundary Stone #38 at the Peak
     
  • War Department stone marker near Aberdeen Reservoir [????- ]
     
• Kowloon
   
  • Belvue [c.1885-????] - does anyone know the location of this building?
     
  • 1869 Business Announcement - Chong-Sha-Wan Picnic House
     
  • Clock Tower of KCR Terminus [????- ] - the clock first started working 100 years ago this year
     
  • Far East Farm Camp [1949-????]
     
  • Kowloon rifle ranges [c.1910-????]
     
  • Temporary Government Buildings at Tai Po [1899-1908]
     
  • United Mansion [1958- ]
     
  • Wylie Court (1st generation) [c.1963-c.1983]
     
• New Territories
   
  • Kwong Fuk Estate [1983- ], and lots of photos of its construction
     
  • Tang Ancestral Hall [c.1300- ]

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Cecil BECK [1928- ], Doris BECK [1936-2018]
     
  • Winifred Barbara DEANE (née MAUGHAN, aka Winnie) [1919-1998]
     
  • Raymond Harper HUGHES [1917-2005]
     
  • Ann Selkirk MUIR (née LINDSAY) [1916-1973], VAD
     
  • Laurentz Reuben NIELSON (aka Laurie) [1901-1957]
     
  • John Edmund RICHARDSON (aka Dicky) [1904-1989]
     
• Other
   
  • Montague BEART [1857-1919], President of Hongkong Corinthian Sailing Club 1890-1891
     
  • Hugh Gordon MUIR [1910-1941], HKVDC, husband of Ann Selkirk Muir mentioned above
     
  • Thomas Francis O'SULLIVAN [1896-c.1930]
     
  • The Reed family in Hong Kong, including:
    Robert REED [1834-1873]
    • Amaro John REED [1865-1936]
      • Robert Cyril REED [1903-1969]
      • Wilfred Alexander REED (aka Willie) [1906-1971]

Photos

1930s Canton Road, by Eternal1966

1930s Chinese Temple - can anyone identify the location? - by moddsey

1950s Embassy Court, by Moddsey

Canadian Army signallers manning a position, by hk_sampan

A Descriptive Document About Mechanisation of
Housing Department Projects - Part 1, by MattSonArchitectNZ

Military road building in the New Territories, by IDJ

Hong Kong street scene, by IDJ

1950s Canton Road, by moddsey

1947 Piper ‘Cubs’ Round-the-World Flight, by Sparky the Neon Cat

Piper Cub-Round the World fliers-visited Hong Kong 1947-
now in NASM Washington, by IDJ

Hong-Kong-street-scene-guard with shot-gun-October-1949, by IDJ

RAF-Auster spotter aircraft preparation-New Territories-October 1949, by IDJ

Military-in-the-New-Territories-October 1949, by IDJ

Flag hoisting ceremony at Tai Po 1899,
by Illustrated London News

Happy Valley 1963 FS Fraser, by Gwygai

Ping Shan (屏山) police station, New Territories, by The National Archives UK

Hong Kong The Peak - Postcarda.JPG, by 2ik7ns-AW_

Yeung Sau-king with her trophies in 1938, by C

TAI PO ATTACK BY WILDCAT, by IDJ

Kowloon-Canton Railway- AURORA luxury lounge car, by IDJ

Time for Tiffin, by IDJ

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