I'm not sure where this is. I seem to remember it was near the "other side" of Canton Road, perhaps somewhere up into Jordan, around Ferry Street area? Certainly somewhere I only went once by car or taxi. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
The Hong Kong retail silversmith WAI KEE 惠記 [in Mandarin: HUI JI] is one of the few retailers that truly spans three centuries; founded in 1885, the firm is still operating in almost the same location by Pedder Street with the same specialities of pearls, jewellery and silver wares. As opposed to other similar firms operating today in Hong Kong that lay claim to longevities in trading, Wai Kee is the oldest retail jeweller and silversmith in Hong Kong. <Read more ...>
I am writing a biography of Sir Cecil Clementi （金文泰) to be published by Hong Kong University Press.
I would be interested in hearing from anyone who cares to share information, documentation, photographs, comment or opinion on the subject of Sir Cecil, his life and times.
Gwulo readers may be interested in a new exhibition from The Photographic Heritage Foundation: 'Photographs from the 1950s: Marjorie Doggett's Singapore, Lee Fook Chee's Hong Kong'.<Read more ...>
Zoia Serjevna Kojevnikova and Philip Harding Klimanek married in 1922. Philip Harding Klimanek was Charles Gesner van der Voort's senior colleague at Holland-China Trading Company in Shanghai, when he arrived in 1939.
Many foreign people in Shanghai visited Japan for a holiday, Kobe was relatively nearby.
