New on Gwulo: 2022, week 7

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Readers' memories:
   
  • Exiting Beacon Hill railway tunnel to the north in the 1950s/60s
     
  • Hong Kong Stadium 1960's
     
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Miss Jones living in the Westbourne Villas on Bonham Road, 1901-3
     
  • Does this concrete slab on Ho Man Tin Hill Road have anything to do with the railway or the ex-RAF property nearby?
     
  • Could this old bridge on Tai Tam Reservoir Road have anything to do with the original roads to Stanley?
     
• Upgrade update: This week’s work sees improvements to how we add tags and connections to pages. Please see the video below for details (or if it doesn’t show up in your email, please click this link to see it on Youtube).
  
   
• Here's a photo I received last week from the printer I use. It shows a framed print, a copy of Photo 18 from my first book, ready to send to a customer. This scene, 'View over Central in 1922', has been a popular choice for framing. (You can see the selection of Gwulo's photos available for framing in the online catalogue.)
  
  
   

Places
 

Hong Kong island
 

• Birds Bridge [c.1883- ]
   
• Former Hon Wah College Site at Ching Lin Terrace [1965- ]
   

Kowloon
 

• Empress Hotel (Kowloon) [1963-1992]
  

  1973 Empress Hotel (Kowloon), by Eternal1966
  
   

New Territories
 

• Ma Liu Shui / University Station [????- ]
   
• Needle Hill Tungsten Mine [????- ]
   

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Ernest Manning HAZELAND [1870-1944], architect
     
• Other
   
  • Wendy Dorothy ORCHARD (née BARNES, aka Dorothy Wendy BARNES) [1916-2006], known as as Wendy Barnes when she presented on RTHK.
     
  • Benjamin Charles Albert PROULX (aka Benny) [1901-1985], HKRNVR, POW but escaped from Hong Kong
     
  • Augusto Maria Olderico REMEDIOS (aka Atutu) [1910-1979], Clerk in Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in pre-war Hong Kong, Private in HKVDC and later POW
     
  • Faustina Felicia Osmund RIBEIRO [1885-1958]
     

Photos
 

1936 Markree Refractor, by Moddsey

1930s Aerial View of Ma Tau Kok and
​​​​​​​To Kwa Wan, by Moddsey

Tweed Bay - View From Above, by Freddie

Wyler Textiles Limited 1960, by eternal1966e

1930s Chatham Road, by Moddsey

Repulse Bay Lido, Hong Kong Telegraph, page 3 Weekend Section,
​​​​​​​18th July 1936.png, by The Hong Kong Telegraph

CMB bus tickets with notable serial numbers, by H Yu

Hockey stick brooch engraved 'Shanghai v Hong Kong 1934-35', by helen.given

1950s Connaught Road Central (West of the Harbour Office), by m20wc51

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