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• Memories of sailing to and from Australia on the MV Changsha in the 1950s and 60s, and details of cargo / passenger service between Singapore and Hong Kong in early 80s.
   
• The 1946 Typhoon
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
  • Kirsty is looking for access to Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the journal Hong Kong and South China Builder, covering the early / mid 1930's
     
  • Guy is looking for any evidence that the Royal Navy used Double Haven as an anchorage
     
  • Chris Potter is hoping to contact Carolyn Philips (previously Carolyn Blake), ex-Stanley Camp. Chris and Carolyn were both interned in Stanley Camp as children, where their families shared one small room.
     
  • Did the British military train with live ammo in Hong Kong's country parks?
     
  • Where was the photographer standing to take these photos of the SS Conte Verde aground after the 1937 typhoon?
     
• Updates & answers:
  • Notes added about 28 Tai Hang Road and its owner. Also Phil has updated the photo to show more of the road. The 1960 movie panned across the scene, so Phil has combined multiple frames to give his wide-angle view.
     
  • In the comments to last week's Men at work in the 1930s, that upside-down table is identified as being used to serve roast pig (also see these comments), and the rickshaw rank was outside the entrance to the Naval Yard on today's Queensway.
     
  • The mysterious pile of granite blocks & columns near Baguio Villas have been identified as coming from the old Asia Life Building that was on Queen's Road in Central.
     
  • Several readers added information about the Latin American Chinese Community 1930s-1950s

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A look at what's new on the Gwulo website...

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• Last week's newsletter about the Tai Mo Shan raindrops had several interesting comments where readers added more information about the waterworks. My favourite was a 1926 newspaper clipping, reporting that a party of schoolboys from DBS had been taken on a guided walk through the new water tunnel under Golden Hill, all 4,850 feet of it. It ends that the boys "were naturally very pleased to learn that they were the first boys to go through the tunnel." I can't imagine that type of outing being approved by health & safety today!
   
• Only eight more pages left to finish typing up the 1936 jurors list - can you spare half an hour to type up a page?
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
  • Which regiment replaced the 14 Regiment Royal Artillery at Sek Kong Camp when the 14 Regiment left for the UK in 1962?
     
  • Building Inside Victoria Peak Radio Station Office
     
  • Old school house, Ma Mei Ha Village [????- ]
     
  • Mystery marker stone [????- ] near the border with Shenzhen
     
  • Mystery fort and mini tunnel on Lamma
     
  • 28 Tai Hang Road [????-c.1962]
    

    28 Tai Hang Road, by Philk
    
     
  • Hong Kong's Latin American Chinese Community in the 1930s-1950s
     
  • Looking for photos of Charles MAY [1817-1879]
     
• Answers to previous questions:
  • Another location confirmed in the 1930s home movie
     
  • Details of ships sailing from Hong Kong to Australia in 1981

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