New on Gwulo: 2021, week 39

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

General
 

• During the fighting in December 1941, did either the Japanese or British forces make any use of Kellett Island?
   
• More memories of repatriation on the Empress of Australia in 1945
   
• This scene has been identified as the results of a crash at San Tin in 1933:
  

  Crashed Fairy 111F, by 2ik7ns-AW_
  
   
• Notes about what was for sale in this photo:
  

  Hongkong - A portable groceteria, by Admin
  
   
• Can you add any information about the Equine Sports Club? It was opened with some fanfare in the Shatin district in 1935, but we're not sure of the exact location or how long it lasted.
   
• I've passed the half-way point of my three-week quarantine - not too much longer to go!

Places
 

• Kowloon
   
  • Shop houses at 96 Ap Liu Street [????- ] and 185 Tai Nan Street [????- ]
    

    185 Tai Nan Street, by Philk
    
     
  • HK and Kowloon Taxicab Company's Garage on Salisbury Road [1924-1927]
     
  • Sakura Bar & Night Club [????-????]
    

    1967 Granville Road , by Eternal1966
    
     
  • Wing Lok Theatre / 永樂戲院 [1953-1970]
     
• Hong Kong
   
  • Fontana Gardens [1965- ]
     
  • Fountain at Causeway Bay Roundabout [1957-1968]
    

    1959 Fountain at Causeway Bay Roundabout at Night, by eternal1966e
    
     
  • Japanese Tunnel Stanley Bay [????- ]
     
  • Tai Tam Tunnel [1887- ], bringing water from the Tai Tam reservoir to the north side of the island and the aqueduct running along Bowen Road
     
• New Territories
   
  • Kuk Po Public Pier [????- ]
     
  • St. Joseph's Church, Fanling [1953- ]

People

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Eileen Jeanette STEVENS (née DE BIERE) [1907-2000], released from Stanley Camp in 1942
     
• Other:
   
  • Charles Frederick ANDREWS [1902-1986], HKVDC, POW, worked for Dairy Farm
     
  • DEVAUX [????-????], stayed uninterned during the Japanese occupation
     
  • James PEAK [c.1874-????], overseer for C Warren in 1902
     
  • Ada Maud Woods WOODS (née FITZ STUBBS, aka Maud) [1860-1940], mother of the well known twins, Doris and Aileen
     
  • Does anyone recognise the man on the right?
    

    Tobias Hunter at Ho Tung Gardens, by Seemex
    
     

Photos
 

1954 Wyndham street, by Eternal1966

1956 Wyndham Street, by Eternal1966

1972 Royal Naval Dockyard, by moddsey

1950s Kowloon Naval Yard, by Podkin

1950s Luna Park, by moddsey

1957 Man Yee Building Construction, by Eternal1966

1968 Causeway Bay Roundabout, by Eternal1966

bulkeley market 1977.png, by simtang

Fairey 111F coded 81, sometime before its crash at San Tin,
leading its flight above HMS Eagle, by IDJ

1977 HKK Hau Fuk Street.jpg, by Alain

1950s Canton Road, by eternal1966e

1935 Looking East Across Nathan Road Towards Signal Hill , by eternal1966e

Street Scene, by mike

Chatham Road Camp, by IDJ

Aerial Photo - British Empire Exhibition - Hong Kong Pavilion, by Chinarail

Hong Kong Pavilion- British Empire Exhibition, by Chinarail

Two old style street name plates on the wall of the
Western Market, by Raymond Lo

1973 Kimberley Street, by Eternal1966

1968 Tin Hau Temple of Yau Ma Tei = 油麻地天后廟, by change.obama

RAF Hanger at Tai Hom.png, by HKRS

33 - Carnarvon Road Kowloon, by admartin679@gmail.com

Paramount on Nathan Road, by admartin679@gmail.com

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