New on Gwulo: 2022, week 9

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • The location of Farm Lot 17, Pokfulam
     
• Readers' memories of:
   
  • Finding opium pots on Stonecutters Island
     
  • Klaus shares his collection of sugar cubes from Hong Kong's hotels and restaurants. It's an unusual type of ephemera - can you add any more to the collection?
     
• Highlights from recent issues of the daily Wartime Diaries email:
   
  • Today in 1944 was the day American fighter pilot Donald Kerr boarded a junk to escape Hong Kong. He'd been shot down over Kai Tak, parachuted to safety, then hidden from his Japanese pursuers for several weeks with the help of local guerillas. Read the whole story from his journal.
     
  • On yesterday's date in 1943, John Charter wrote down the long and involved process of moving to a different room in Stanley Camp, with each change triggering a ripple of moves for other people in the camp. He ends the day's journal entry: "This happened again and again all over the camp and I know for certain that to re-billet the 55 British from the Dutch block more than 200 people had to change about."
     
  • It is free to subscribe if you'd like to start receiving these daily Wartime Diaries emails.
     
• Upgrade update: I've finished the work on the search page, and have also made some improvements to how we navigate through the 30,000+ photos on Gwulo. You can get a preview of the changes in the video below (please click here to watch it on Youtube if the video doesn't show up in your email).
  
   

Places
 

Hong Kong island
 

• New answers to the request for information about 'Magazine Gap Bridge'
   
• North Point Ferry Pier (West) [1979- ]
   
• Tunnel Entrance to Gardens Service Reservoir (Hong Kong Botanical Gardens) [1933- ]
   

Kowloon
 

• Abandoned grade 2 historical red brick cottage
   
• Fok Tak Temple, Bulkeley Street [c.1279-c.1945]
   
• Fortuna Court (Hotel), Yau Ma Tei [????-????]
   
• Pink Champagne Restaurant [????-????]
   
• Spring Deer Restaurant [????-????], famous for many years for its Peking Duck, but recently went out of business
   

Islands & New Territories
 

• Cheung Hue North Anti-Aircraft Searchlight Engine Room, Tsing Yi [1933-????]
   

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Constance Ada WOOD [c.1896-????], housekeeper
     
• Other
   
  • Further discoveries about the Alarakia family's history
     

Photos
 

1973-08-29_hunghom_air_view.png, by simtang

Fortuna Court (Hotel), Yau Ma Tei, by HKTam

Hotel Furama Intercontinental sugar cube, by Klaus

Pre-Octopus Star Ferry fare payment in cash, by IDJ

1936 Reed Family Gathering at Broadwood Road House, by angie-r

1957 TST Star Ferry, by Eternal1966

Spring Deer Restaurant , by HKTam

It's not the first time Hong Kong has been visited by a contagious disease, by IDJ

Argyle Street camp-interned Chinese Soldiers, by IDJ

1972-2-1 wanchai air view.jpg, by simtang

Wyndham Street around 1910's.jpg, by danielwettling

Review of Troops 1880's.jpg, by danielwettling

Pagoda for the Royal Visit 1922.jpg, by danielwettling

Jubilee Buildings, by Steve yates

1968 hunghom.jpg, by simtang

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