Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1960
Most of the amahs were very pleasant people. They worked hard and provided a female, and almost motherly touch in an otherwise all male community. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1951
Camp Collinson was where the 367 Signals Unit men lived prior to Lye Mun and then either the permanent quarters at Little Sai Wan or Sek Kong. <Read more ...>
Submitted by Grousehunter on Wed, 2017-05-03 06:23
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1922
The family went back home to Norway for a holiday in 1922? Lingas amah accepted to join. After a while she returned to Hong kong as the climate up north was way too cold for her and she missed her own family. <Read more ...>
captioned 'Maureen, Denny & Sheila with Amahs, Suffolk Road'. Sheila (Staple) my mother is smallest child on left, Maureen and Denny's surname was Maclean - I'd dearly love to date when they moved to this house in Suffolk Road (from Braemar Terrace I presume) and if it was before or after my grandfather Ken Staple was killed (16 Nov, 1931). I have no picture of him at the house but photos which may or may not bear his writing. I think the building hoarding says Baxter Construction but hard to tell as the photo is so faded. <Read more ...>
