New on Gwulo: 2022, week 10

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Where exactly was Luna Park located in North Point?
     
  • What did it cost to buy a two-bedroom flat in the late 1950s in Hong Kong?
     
  • An old friend, Peter RASMUSSEN
     
• Readers' memories of:
   
  • Lighthouse keeping
     
  • Life in Hong Kong as a Navy family in the 1950s
    

    Street view, by Chris Addison photos
    
     
  • Royden Court military quarters, Causeway Bay
     
• One of the simple ways we can make Gwulo a better site is to quote the sources of the information we share here. I've written some brief notes on why it's important, and tips on how to do it well.
   
• Upgrade update: I disappeared down another rabbit hole last week when I realised that the "What's new" page in the new version of the website software doesn't include photo pages in its list. Since "What's new" is the most-visited page on Gwulo, and photos are such a key part of the site, that had to be fixed. I finished working on it over the weekend, so now it's back to the more mundane work of tidying up the site's appearance. Hopefully no new surprises this week!
  
   

Places
 

Klaus has discovered that the Star Theatre in TST was created by disassembling the old Victoria Theatre on Hong Kong island, transporting it across the harbour, and re-building it in TST. As he notes, once you know the story the similarities between the two buildings are clear to see:

1919 Victoria Theatre, by eternal1966c1

1920s Star Theatre, by Moddsey

Hong Kong island
 

• The Gap [1843-1949]
   

Kowloon
 

• Honor Hotel, 2-12 Pilkem Street [????-????]
   
• Wuhu Street children's playground [????- ]
  

  wuhu_children_playgound1.jpg, by simtang

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Charles Andrew Sutherton RUSS [1885-c.1950], solicitor, and his wife Eva Mary LAIGHT / RUSS (née IRESON) [1886-1956]
     
  • Joseph Ernest SANDBACH [1898-1991], Methodist minister and missionary
     
• Other
   
  • Luba ESTES (née SKVORZOV) [1931- ]
     
  • Frederick Cyril GABY (aka Cyril) [1906-2002], and Elsie GABY [1933-1941], believed to be the daughter of Cyril and his Chinese mistress, Anna.
     
  • Evelyn Adam GOVETT [1882-1899], a midshipman of H.M.S. Orlando who accidentally shot himself in the head with a Mauser revolver at Castle Peak, New Territories, when out on a shooting expedition with mates.
     
  • Peter HALLIWELL [????-????], teacher
     
  • Yuri Vitalievitch SMIRNOFF (aka George) [1903-1947], Russian artist
     

Photos
 

Matchbook covers and other ephemera, by S.Ball

Marker Stone-Gough Battery, Devil's Peak, by Freddie

Lei Yue Mun Barracks Garrison Church - Front, by Freddie

A Chinese laundry, by Chris Addison photos

1911-6-22_staue_of_queen_victoria.jpg, by simtang

New Method College on Caroline Hill Road and its members of the
Road Safety Patrol, by Anonymous

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