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Braemar Hill crash victim -Olive Batley-declared Estate

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2022-01-04 00:30
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

RAF VAMPIRE after its rescue from Bias Bay

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2021-12-28 04:14
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

Similar shot to Moddsey's recent posting.1949 de Havilland Vampire Demonstration Flight

Notable in this image are the numbers of spectators on the rooftops of various buldings in Central.

SCMP of 16 January 1949 has a report on the flight over the city, but no picture with the text

1949 de Havilland Vampire Demonstration Flight

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 2021-12-27 23:19
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

I think the photo has to do with the first demonstration flight of the RAF's Vampire jet aircraft over Hong Kong on 15 January 1949. Photo probably taken from the roof top of the South China Morning Post Building on Wyndham Street.

As mentioned here on the trip to Hong Kong on 11 January, the Vampire aircraft had overshot Kai Tak and subsequently made a forced landing on a beach at Bias Bay. It was later transported back to Kai Tak.

Hong Kong Sunday Herald 16 January 1949

Air Raid Tunnels construction undermine Govt. House

Submitted by IDJ on Thu, 2021-12-23 22:49
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1941

Imperial Airways passenger-Master R. CLEMO

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2021-12-21 22:41
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940

The CLEMO name is familiar to Gwulo readers.

Circus Elephant unloaded-Mackie's Wharf-North Point

Submitted by IDJ on Tue, 2021-12-21 22:29
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

The ship that the elephants are being unloaded from in David’s posting https://gwulo.com atom/41650#comment-62020   may be the same one in this image     

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Submitted by TimHK on Sat, 2021-12-11 21:11

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Submitted by TimHK on Sat, 2021-12-11 21:11

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Submitted by TimHK on Sat, 2021-12-11 21:11

I always thought these photos of myself (aged 3+) and my mother, Joan Roberts, were taken in Tiger Balm gardens but they don't seem to match recent posts by other contributors. I'm sure someone will be able to identify the location.

Unknown British pillbox on the Gin Drinkers Line

Submitted by hk_sampan on Fri, 2021-12-10 15:25
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

From HK1941spatialhistory, photo taken by a Japanese soldier 

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