Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1926
This photo is inscribed by my cousin, Diana Warren, “View from our roof to Kowloon”. “Our roof” should therefore be 19 Broadwood Road, also known as “The Bungalow”, built next door to “The Towers” at the top of Broadwood Road. As “The Bunglalow” was only one storey high, I’m surprised that the camera is looking down on the nearby buildings. I wonder if the photo was actually taken from the flat roof of The Towers and that the nearby roof is that of The Bungalow itself. Orientation isn’t my strong suit. <Read more ...>
The missionary doctor, the Rev. W. J. Webb Anderson M.B., Ch.B was one of the mainstays of the Wesleyan Missionary Church hospital in Fatshan, Canton, where he worked for over twenty years, according to Carl Smith. According to my father’s memory, the Rev Webb Anderson was one of the closest friends of his own father, Charles Edward Warren. This makes sense, as they lived next door to each other for about seven years. <Read more ...>
I am looking for information about my grandmother, Hannah Warren, who returned to Hong Kong from England in June 1923 on the death of her husband, my grandfather, Charles Edward Warren, but whose funeral she did not arrive in time to attend. Her own death certificate states that she had spent "about" 25 years in Australia. We assume that she was evacuated from Hong Kong between 1939 and 1941, but there is no definite record of that. I haven't been able to find any record of where she was living after her return in 1923 until 1941. <Read more ...>
Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):
1940
This C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd advert for black out materials and A.R.P. equipment is from the SCMP 10 April, 1940. Leslie Warren, the company manager and member of the HKVD Signals Corps must have agreed for his company to be an outlet for these. The advert refers to "the next black out". When did the black out drills start and how were they imposed?
