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
 

• Kowloon
   
  • #173 Tai Nan Street [????- ] - You'd think we'd have found all the shop houses by now, but here's another!
     
  • Empire Centre [1981- ]
     
  • Garden Bakery, Castle Peak Road [1938- ], coming to the end of its life
    

    Garden Bakery, by Philk
    
     
• Hong Kong
   
  • Luk Hoi Tung Hotel [????-????], "a seedy, fourth-rate establishment near the waterfront"
     
• Islands
   
  • Wong Chuk Kok 97 Beacon [????- ] on Lamma Island
     
• New Territories
   
  • Lo Wu Camp [????-????]
     
  • Sheung Shui Police Station [1979- ]

People

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Ivy Josephine CUTLER (née BATLEY) [1918-2011] and her husband Ronald Peter CUTLER [1921-1978], a policeman
     
• Other:
   
  • Alfred William BATLEY / BATTLEY [1888-1932], worked in Chinese Maritime Customs, and his wife Ah Li / Mary BATLEY [c.1901-1966]. Parents of Ivy, listed above.
     
  • James MCDOUGALL (aka Sonny) [c.1914-1991], Royal Scots, POW, Star Ferries
     
  • Ackber Mohamed OMAR (aka Andy) [1913-1969], lawn bowls player, SCMP reporter
     
  • Eliza Agnes STANFORD (aka Louisa; Louisa Eliza; Eliza Agnes Hannah Maud Davidson) [1874-1944], born in Hong Kong, and her younger sister Amy Lilian STANFORD [c.1884-????], born in England
     
  • Tze Ying TSE (aka Robert) [????-1973], believed originally from Fujian Province, buried in Aberdeen Cemetery.
     

Photos
 

147 Lai Chi Kok Road, by Philk

1924 YMCA under construction, by Admin

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

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

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

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., by Andrew

Yau Ma Tei, by redpathfinder

TST waterfront with neon lights, by Klaus

1950s Hysan Avenue, by moddsey

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, by Jimmy K. C. Ho

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, by Charles in Shanghai

Frontier Divisional Headquarters & Sheung Shui Police
Station, Fanling, 1980, by Torfaen Corvine

Whitfield Barracks, by 2ik7ns-AW_

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

1965 air view hunghom piers.jpg, by simtang

Marlon Brando in Hong Kong:

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

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

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

1969 Happy Valley/Causeway Bay, by IDJ

1963 morrison hill.png, by simtang

Repulse Bay cave, by Andrew Suddaby

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

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