New on Gwulo: 2021, week 52

Happy New Year! Before we turn our thoughts to the year ahead, and hopes that the next 12 months see Covid under control, here's a look at what was added to Gwulo in the last week of 2021...

General
 

• Peter has kindly shared his mother Irene Braudé's reports on the Nursing Detachment of the HKVDC (aka The VADs), 1941-45
   
• Many thanks to Dede who has completed typing up the whole 1940 Jurors List. (If you can spare half an hour, please help make another year's list available by typing up a page of the 1938 Jurors List.)
   
• Details of two of Hong Kong's Rolls of Honour
   
• Readers' questions:
   
  • Which public market Queen Elizabeth visited when she came to Hong Kong in 1975?
     
  • How did the Shek Shan district in To Kwa Wan get its name?
     
  • Hoping to contact R Clemo - looking for any information
     
  • What is the latest development project on the site at the top of Go San Chuen Road, Cheung Chau?
     
• Readers' memories:
   
  • The radar unit on Checkerboard Hill
     
  • Normandie / Kiki Rasmussen / Carol Bateman
     
  • Golden Gate Bakery / Ki Lung Street / Making fluffy cotton for duvets
     
  • Kung Ho Terrace / 共和台
     
• In last week's newsletter I included a video showing the 'photo zoom' and 'add tags' features I've been working on, but I see it got stripped out by the e-mail service. Here's a link to watch the video on Youtube. Since then I've also got the 'add connections' working. Next I'm looking at adding thumbnail photos to People and Places, and allowing users to create those thumbnails from existing photos on Gwulo without needing to use any external photo editing tools.
  
   

Places
 

• Kowloon
   
  • Hung Hom ferry pier to Wanchai & North Point [1979-c.1988]
     
  • Yau Ma Ti / Mong Kok / Mong Kok East Railway Station [????- ]
    

    1977 mongkok kcr station.png, by simtang
    
     
• Hong Kong island
   
  • Blarney Stone (1st generation), Victoria Road [c.1912-????]
     
  • 26-33 Connaught Road Central [c.1903-c.1967], a block of eight houses often seen in views of Hong Kong from the harbour:
    

    1965 Central Reclamation, by eternal1966e
    
     
  • Pillbox 025, Wong Ma Kok [1939- ]
     
  • Spring Garden Lane [c.1859- ]
     
  • Tung Shan Hotel [1927-????]
     
  • Windsor House, Causeway Bay [1979- ]
     
• New Territories
   
  • Charcoal kiln on Wilson Trail, stage 5 (north) [????- ], the second one I've found along this stage
     
  • Pillbox 314 Entrance Tunnel [c.1937- ]
     

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Edith BATLEY [c.1921-1957]
     
  • Enid Mabel MICHELL / MARTIN (née CRAIK) [1899-1988]
     
• Other
   
  • Frederick James Duncan CLEMO (aka Freddie) [1922-1999], HKVDC, POW
     
  • Olof JAKOBSSON (aka Ola/Olaf Olson or Olsson) [1839-1880]
     
  • George Walter REEVE [1887-1968], school teacher and part-time lecturer at HKU
     

Photos
 

CarrickRab asks where this was taken:

Is this Peel Street, Hong Kong?, by CarrickRab

1950s The Dairy Farm, by moddsey

1920s Spring Garden Lane, by eternal1966e

1964 WC Spring Garden Lane, by Eternal1966

Yaumatei Station KCR 1967, by Malcolm Peaker

Shatin Floating Restaurant 1967, by Malcolm Peaker

resting rickshaw drivers, by TinTrunk

1905 Wellington Street = 威靈頓街, by kwok.winnie

general post office 1968.jpg, by simtang

1970 lockhart road between obrien and fleming.png, by simtang

1949 de Havilland Vampire Demonstration Flight, by Moddsey

RAF VAMPIRE after its rescue from Bias Bay, by IDJ

1950s Junction of Nathan Road and Cameron Road, by moddsey

1970s Hong Kong Hilton Party, by sboulton

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