New on Gwulo: 2022, week 13

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Klaus has searched the government records to compile this list of Regulations of Public Vehicles and Chairs in Hong Kong 1863-1941, illustrated with photos of Sedan Chairs and Rickshaws from those years.
   
• Back in 2009 I asked if anyone could explain the mystery tunnel in Hong Kong Cemetery. Thirteen years later, we have an answer!
   
• A 1938 film shows the anti-aircraft guns at Sai Wan Hill Battery in action
   
• Moving a 27-ton gun barrel: 1900s vs 2020s
   
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Where are the horses in old Hong Kong photos?
     
  • Has anyone seen floor plans of the first City Hall building?
     
  • Who was the "Anderson" or "Iverson" who carved their name on this boundary stone?
     
• Readers' memories of:
   
  • Conder's Bar
     
• Upgrade update: I'm still working on the image pages, as some of the features needed more work than expected.
  
   

Places
 

Hong Kong island
 

• Bisnee Villa [????-????], on the hillside below Queen Mary Hospital
   
• Braeside - 20 MacDonnell Road [????-????]
   
• 44 Conduit Road [????- ]
   
• Go Wah Mansion, Wanchai [1964- ]
   
• Wyndham Street Sedan Chair Stand [1863-????]
   
• Wartime relics
   
  • Mt Collinson Japanese Tunnels (1/3 way up) [????- ]
     
  • Mt Collinson Japanese Tunnels (near summit) [????- ]
     
  • Military construction on northern slope of Pottinger Peak [????- ]
     

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Mary Constance FAIRBURN (née BONNELL) [1900-1996], Canadian nurse
     
  • Charles Beatty Allenby Haig THIRLWELL [1918-1985], lighthouse keeper
     
  • More repatriation notices from 1945:
    • #14 (HM Escort Carrier Slinger)
    • #15 (for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and USA)
    • #16
    • #17 (HMS Arbiter sailing to Australia)
       

Photos
 

Sedan chair and Jinrikisha by Lai Afong, c1880s, by Lai Afong

Chair for hire Lai Afong c.1870s, by Lai Fong

My sister and I walking - unknown pathway,
by Chris Addison

Menu - my Dad's leaving 'do', by Chris Addison

The Superintending Electrical Engineers Dept., Naval Dockyard, by Chris Addison

A two berth cabin on the Chusan, by Chris Addison

See more photos of the SS Chusan.

St John's Cathedral Review dated December 1957,
by Chris Addison

Gordon Camp, by Sapper Bill Purcell

traffic_police_1950s.jpg, by danielwettling

The Toby Jug-Waterloo Road, by IDJ

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