Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1956
Gillian Tydeman, with feather duster, sitting in front. My father, Raymond, with glasses, extreme right, sitting. The party was held at HKEC Recreational Club. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1955
'Miss Tricity' was the name given to the cable-mounted toy plane at the Hong Kong Electric Company Recreational Club. Raymond Smith, an engineer at HKEC pre- and post-war, designed the ride. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1942
A letter from my father, a prisoner of war, to my mother. He mentions his mother, Grace Smith, who was blind and cared for devotedly by Chan, a young Chinese woman with a husband and children. The letter suggests that Chan chose to be interned along with Mrs Smith at Stanley Camp so she could continue to care for her. We have found no record of Chan at Stanley, so assume that she was thrown out of the camp as just one more mouth to feed. Despite attempts by Raymond Smith after the war to trace Chan, her fate remains a mystery. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1955
This is unashamedly a composite of two different photos taken on the same occasion. I rescued a tiny charred fragment showing an elephant in mid-air from the fireplace - you can clearly see the burn marks - and combined it with a broader, less interesting shot that sets it in context. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1950
The staff accommodation block on the left is where my family lived in 1951. In front of the Power Station is the duty engineer's quarters, where my father (Raymond Smith) and my mother (Pixie Smith) lived until his retirement in 1956; he cultivated the garden in front of the house. Beyond this, the block on the right was probably offices or accommodation. <Read more ...>
