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Everything tagged "1940s Hong Kong"

The Peak tram with a view out over Hong Kong city and harbour

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1949

Found this website from New Zealand with most interesting images.

Credits: The Peak tram with a view out over Hong Kong city and harbour. Whites Aviation Ltd :Photographs. Ref: WA-22553-F. Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand. http://natlib.govt.nz/records/22513051

In the back (righthand side) is the empty space where old Richmond House stood, and second generation isn't built yet.

William Redwood photo.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940

Barbara Anslow has sent this photo of her father, William Redwood, taken early in 1940. In fact it is a photocopy of the actual photo.

1940s Lido at Repulse Bay

Nice aerial shot.

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1946
Places shown in this photo: 

W Redwood's grave.jpg

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1940
Places shown in this photo: 

This photograph of the grave of William Redwood, father of Olive, Barbara and Mabel and husband of Mabel Winifred Redwood has been kindly sent for posting on Gwulo by Barbara Anslow. It was taken shortly after the grave's erection in the Hong Kong Cemetery in July 1940. See also "Letter from Dad" http://gwulo.com/atom/21884 written to his wife and daughters by William Redwood three days before his death.

johnson-ontario-harbours

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

This is from the website http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/johnson/johnson-ontario-harbours.htm.

The header of this one is "Charles Dobie :ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY HMCS ONTARIO, Photos Submitted by Ken Johnson, Hong Kong and Area, 1945.

The subscript is:Photo 4 : Negative #ON-0099: Hong Kong -- Stanley. The prison is in the mid-ground.

johnson-hongkong-wardamage

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

This is from the website http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/johnson/johnson-ontario-harbours.htm.

The header of this one is "Charles Dobie :ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY HMCS ONTARIO, Photos Submitted by Ken Johnson, Hong Kong and Area, 1945.

The subscript is: Photo 6 : Negative #ON-0094: A building in Stanley Internment Camp.

johnson-ontario-harbours15

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

This is from the website http://freepages.military.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cdobie/johnson/johnson-ontario-harbours.htm.

The header of this one is "Charles Dobie :ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY HMCS ONTARIO, Photos Submitted by Ken Johnson, Hong Kong and Area, 1945.

The subscript is: Photo 5 : Negative #ON-0097: Stanley Civilian Internment Camp. Note the battle damage in the Prison Officers' Club (bullet holes in the buildings).

stanleymap_1942

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1942

Found this on http://ancilknance.com/bethnance/ "My Life, by Elizabeth M. Nance". This includes descriptions of the life in the Stanley Civilian Internment Camp.

(Link updated 2016-11-16)

Braathens-Schoolchildren's holiday plane-SCMP 8 Jan 1948

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1948

The Norwegian airline Braathens S.A.F.E. was the first airline to offer flights bring Hong Kong schoolchildren back for their summer holidays. This was in 1948. Later the SCMP reported their success and that one father who had been interned in Shamshuipo during war saw his son for the first time in nine years and another child had his first return visit in fourteen years. See also http://gwulo.com/node/27397

SCMP and HKT August 30 1945

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos): 
1945

Courstesy of Brian Edgar.

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