New on Gwulo: 2022, week 12

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Chris has posted several more photos from her family's time in Hong Kong in the 1950s, and also from the return trip to the UK by ship. The comments to the photo below make good reading, showing the detective work that pinned down its location.
   
  
  
   
• David Clarke introduces his collection of 40,000+ Hong Kong photos taken between 1995 and 2020
   
• The origins of the 'AM' registration numbers for government vehicles
   
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Susan Helen KING, older half-sister of Fiona Katherine KINLOCH [1943- ]
     
  • The old military structures at Robin's Nest
     
• Readers' memories of:
   
  • Jubilee Buildings, Sham Shui Po
     
  • Sek Kong Village
     
• Upgrade update: Here's a chance to see what the new site will look like, with a simpler page layout that should be easier to use. (If you're reading this in an email and you don't see the video below, please click here to watch it on Youtube.)
  
   

Places
 

Hong Kong island
 

• The dangers of the Albany Nullah
   
• War Department Boundary Stone 5 + Governor's Residence Stone "L", The Peak [????- ]
   
• Rickshaw ranks:
   
  • D'Aguilar Street rickshaw rank [????-????]
     
  • Wyndham Street rickshaw rank [c.1931-c.1962]

New Territories
 

• Lobster Bay and its smugglers
   

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Lewis William BUSH [1907-1987], HKRNVR. Later transferred out of Stanley to Shamshuipo POW camp, and then to a POW camp in Japan. He was married to a Japanese lady, and spoke Japanese.
     
  • Joan Alice Mary KING [1912-1989]
     
  • More 1945 repatriation notices: #2, #3, #4, #5
     
• Other:
   
  • Archibald HUNG / HUNT (aka Archie) [1911-1954], HKVDC and BAAG
     
  • William John LYSAUGHT [1903-1920]
     

Photos
 

Wai Kee Jewellers 1965 Central Building
Opening #2, by Jada Lam

Getting on the Peak Tram, by Chris Addison

The memorial arch at the Botanical Gardens, by Chris Addison

Wyndham Street, by Chris Addison

wyndham_street_1914.jpg, by danielwettling

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