New on Gwulo: 2022, week 11

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Free talk via Zoom on Tuesday morning, 22 March: WW II Civilian Internment in Hong Kong. "Our two speakers, Martin Heyes of Hong Kong and Julien Lehoux of Montreal, will tell you about Hong Kong’s civilian internees and how they lived during their imprisonment, the complex negotiations to repatriate the Canadians among them, and the impacts on their lives after their return to Canada."
   
• Final-year university student Kai Hei asks for 5-10 minutes of your time, to complete a questionnaire. It will form part of their final-year thesis on heritage conservation and related online communities such as Gwulo.com.
   
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • What was the name of the building on the right in this photo of MacDonnell Road in 1957:
    

    Our flat in MacDonnell Road, by Chris Addison
    
     
  • Looking for photos of Stanley in the 1960s
     
• Readers' memories of:
   
  • Billy Tingle teaching swimming at the LRC, and Saturday Sports in Central
     
  • North Point Ferry pier and bus terminal
     
• The online archive of the South China Morning Post is available online again to readers with a Hong Kong Public Library card. If you don't have a card, Annelise has kindly offered to help with searches.
   
• 1852 journal: This 39-page Chinese-language document is a journal kept by a Christian evangelist, Chen Dui (陳兑), detailing his daily activities in Hong Kong for a few months in 1852, when he travelled around the colony, seeking converts and distributing Bibles and religious tracts.
   
• Bob has been out exploring again, and shares more "unusual items found discarded on the slopes of The Peak", including this Watsons torpedo-shaped bottle, rescued from a thirsty tree that had a tight hold of it:
  

  Watsons Torpedo, by bob
  
   
• Upgrade update: I'm currently working on re-vamping the website's menus. The goal is to make them as simple as possible, while keeping all the important information easily available.
  They have to meet our different visitors' needs, e.g. a new visitor who's browsing is different from a researcher looking for information, who's different from a regular reader who wants to add information to the site.
  Finally we also need to take into account that what works well on the computer screen I normally use, may be difficult or even impossible to use on the smaller screens of tablets and smartphones.
  I'll keep at it ...
   

Places
 

Hong Kong island
 

• Central Star Ferry Pier (2nd Location, Connaught Rd off Ice House St) [1912-1958]
   
• Commanders Residence (was "Headquarters House"), 11 Barker Road [c.1978- ]
   
• Hong Kong Swatow Christian Church (1st Generation) [????-????]
   
• 2, Park Road (3rd generation) [c.1963-????]
   

Kowloon
 

• Honor Hotel, 2-12 Pilkem Street [????-????]
   
• Sky Theatre / 樂都戲院, Hung Hom [1961-1973]
   
• Valley Road Estate [1962-2001]
   

New Territories
 

• Sek Kong Families' Village [????- ]
   

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Repatriation Notice No. 1 includes many people who'd been interned in Stanley Camp, and were about to leave Hong Kong for the UK.
     

Photos
 

Billy Tingle's Athletic Institute 1962 cup, by Warwick Ross

Boats in Staunton Creek, Aberdeen, by Chris Addison

1957 St John's Cathedral, by Chris Addison

Street view - D'Aguilar Street, by Chris Addison

Flower market, by Dibsy

1970s_chatham_road_police_station.jpg, by simtang

chatham_and_fat_kwong_bridge_intersection_1971.jpg, by simtang

Framed copy of Gwulo's Deep Water Bay photo (ref: EM003), by Jonathan

RAF Sek Kong, by JayBee

Wessex Sek Kong Shaffi.jpg, by JayBee

Sek Kong Village aerial view, by JayBee

Sek Kong Village bungalow, side view, by JayBee

Sek Kong Village bungalow, interior, by JayBee

wanchai_1955.jpg, by danielwettling

Johnston Road 1955 Junction with Henessy Road, by danielwettling

Gordon camp., by tailamRE

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