New on Gwulo: 2022, week 19

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Submitted by David on Mon, 2022-05-23 18:00

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...

General

Graham Heywood's diary of his experiences as a POW in Hong Kong has valuable lessons for us today.
Readers are looking for any information about:
- Tanka People of Hong Kong
- The story behind this photo. Wayne writes: I'm standing front row - left, but have no idea what I'm doing there. Guessing this is 1954. No idea as to the event, but hoping someone might recognize themselves (or someone they know).
  
  party.jpg, by Wayne Carew
Upgrade update:
- Forums, Jurors Lists, Organisations, and Streets, are all working on the new site. That's a major milestone, as now all the main functionality of the current site is available on the upgraded site. The first and longest phase of the upgrade is now finished.
  
  The second phase is to repeat the upgrade on the live site, and make it publicly available. First I'll re-run all of last year's work again from the start, and check we end up with a working site. (There's always a risk that some of my more recent changes have broken some of the earlier work.)
  
  Once I can reliably upgrade the test server I'll run the upgrade on the real server, to see if there are any hiccups there. Then the last step will be to put the current site into read-only mode, and run the upgrade again to make sure the new site is right up to date with all the latest information from the current site.
  
  That will end the second phase and mark the start of the third phase, when I'll ask for your help to start using the new site and let me know what bugs you find. (The current site will continue to be online and available for reference, but we'll only be able to add new content and comments to the new site.)
  
  Looking back through my notes, I started the upgrade at the beginning of March 2021, so this first phase has taken many months of work. I'm crossing my fingers that phase two will be much shorter and take just weeks.

Places

Hong Kong
- 1 Broadwood Road [????-????]
- Rope Works, Kennedy Town [????-????]. Has anyone seen a photograph of its tramway?
- Windsor Hotel / Connaught House / Astor House / St. Francis Hotel [????-????]. 13, Queen's Road Central was was a home to succession of hotels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Kowloon
- Market Street Public Toilet and Bathhouse [c.1960- ]
- Yau Ma Tei Market (1st generation) [c.1880-c.1957] and Yau Ma Tei Market (2nd & current generation) [1957- ]
New Territories & Islands
- Abandoned Mine near Lead Mine Pass [????- ]
- Tin Sum Tsuen, Yuen Long [????-????]

People

Stanley Camp internees:
- Francis Henry LOSEBY [1883-1967], solicitor, and his wife Rose Maria LOSEBY (née BROWN) [1892-1975]
- William Arthur CORNELL [1888-1966], architect with Palmer & Turner
Other
- William Garland LONG [1912-1981], worked for Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., fought with the HKVDC, then was a POW.
- Robert PATTERSON [1849-1899]. He'd served his full fifteen years as a policeman, but tragically died just before he was about to retire on his pension and travel back home to the British Isles with his wife.
- William PHILLIPS [c.1875-1899], a private with the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.
- Lancelot Dryden PURVES [1900-1973]
- Granville SHARP [1825-1899], founded Sharp & Co., and Sharp & Danby (forerunner of today's Leigh & Orange). In his will he gave the money to found the Matilda Hospital.
- James Albert Kitchener WILKINSON [1915-1974], prison officer.