New on Gwulo: 2021, week 38 | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

New on Gwulo: 2021, week 38

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

General
 

  • A question from David: If you're reading this as an email message, please could you reply and let me know if you can see the photos displayed below in the Photos section? When I read the last few newsletter emails on my PC it just shows blue text links to the photos not the actual photos. But when I look at the same emails on my mobile phone I can see the photos fine. I'm wondering if this is just a problem with my PC, or if it is affecting other people too.
     
  • A new wartime diary, The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith - the blind lady of Stanley Internment Camp has been added: Introduction, pages
     
  • Documents describing Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation
     
  • The Peninsula Hotel was still covered in wartime camouflage paint as late as 1949. When was it finally removed?
     
  • The house, Arrowhead, and its architect and owner, Mr Alfredo Alvares

 


 

Places
 

 


 

People


 

Photos
 

147 Lai Chi Kok Road
147 Lai Chi Kok Road, by Philk

 

1924 YMCA under construction
1924 YMCA under construction, by Admin

 

1910 To Kwa Wan Island = 土瓜灣島
1910 To Kwa Wan Island = 土瓜灣島, by eatsee_11

 

To Kwa Wan Aerial Photograph 1963
To Kwa Wan Aerial Photograph 1963, by Crown Lands & Survey Office

 

Francis and Vera (de Carvalho) Reed Wedding Oct 1941.jpg
Francis and Vera (de Carvalho) Reed Wedding Oct 1941.jpg, by angie-r

 

BLACKHEAD POINT - Signal Hill - First impressions - HK Sunday Herald
BLACKHEAD POINT - Signal Hill - First impressions - HK Sunday Herald, by IDJ

 

A panorama that is worth zooming into for the detail:

View of Cheung Sha Wan, Sham Shui Po, West Kowloon and harbour. 1971.
View of Cheung Sha Wan, Sham Shui Po, West Kowloon
​​​​​​​and harbour. 1971., by Andrew

 

Somewhere in Kowloon, possibly Mongkok
Yau Ma Tei, by redpathfinder

 

TST waterfront with neon lights
TST waterfront with neon lights, by Klaus

 

1950s Hysan Avenue
1950s Hysan Avenue, by moddsey

 

Luk Hoi Tung hotel in the 60s.jpg
Luk Hoi Tung hotel in the 60s.jpg, by octa

 

A photo showing the junction between Des Voeux Road Central and Cleverly Street in color (Circa 1970).jpg
A photo showing the junction between Des Voeux Road Central and
Cleverly Street in color (Circa 1970).jpg, by Jimmy K. C. Ho

 

A stitched photo showing the junction between Des Voeux Road Central and Cleverly Street (circa 1950).jpg
A stitched photo showing the junction between Des Voeux Road Central
and Cleverly Street (circa 1950).jpg, by Jimmy K. C. Ho

 

Commemorative bronze plaque evacuation Dutch citizens, Shanghai-Hong Kong, by S.S. Tasman, 1937
Commemorative bronze plaque evacuation Dutch citizens, Shanghai-Hong Kong,
by S.S. Tasman, 1937, by Charles in Shanghai

 

Frontier Divisional Headquarters & Sheung Shui Police Station, Fanling, New Territories, Hong Kong 1980
Frontier Divisional Headquarters & Sheung Shui Police
Station, Fanling, 1980, by Torfaen Corvine

 

EPSON130.JPG
Whitfield Barracks, by 2ik7ns-AW_

 

Swimming Pool, Lo Wu Camp, New Territories, Hong Kong 1980
Swimming Pool, Lo Wu Camp, New Territories, 1980, by Torfaen Corvine

 

1965 air view hunghom piers.jpg
1965 air view hunghom piers.jpg, by simtang

 

Marlon Brando in Hong Kong:

Luna Park's Sky Room Nightclub
Luna Park's Sky Room Nightclub, by angie-r

 

Lo Wu border crossing 1955
Lo Wu border crossing 1955, by GunnerJim8492@outlook.com

 

Lo Wu Border Crossing Point, New Territories, Hong Kong 1980
Lo Wu Border Crossing Point, New Territories, Hong Kong 1980, by Torfaen Corvine

 

1969 Happy Valley/Causeway Bay
1969 Happy Valley/Causeway Bay, by IDJ

 

1963 morrison hill.png
1963 morrison hill.png, by simtang

 

Repulse Bay cave
Repulse Bay cave, by Andrew Suddaby

 

OliveBatleyivy sister.jpg
OliveBatley, Ivy's sister.jpg, by Aleisha Hobson

 


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