Everything tagged "John Olson"

Tennis came up as a subject lately so when I came across this picture which shows the aftermath of tennis at The Towers, 13 Broadwood Road in about 1920 thought I would post it. In right hand corner you can just see racket and perhaps white tennis pumps.

No doubt a drink restored the energy. The man sitting in the middle is my great uncle Charles Olson who seems to be holding a bottle of Johnnie Walker in his hand. The drinks table looks reasonably stocked. <Read more ...>

Here are four pictures. I am posting them because David recently speculated that the Bungalow By The Sea posting of some time back might in fact have been at Cheung Chau island. 

Moddsey identified the Beach for Europeans picture I posted some time back and I have had another search and found the three pictures posted here. They show the beach, my great uncle Charles swimming and the headland in the background, he and his wife Ethel on the beach and Ethel posing with a sunshade on what may be a path above the beach. <Read more ...>

This is a picture taken at my great uncle and aunt's house at 13 Broadwood Road. Would date to mid 1920s. She is third from left. In an earlier post she is pictured with the man third from the right.

Has anybody a view as to whether it is a family snap - with the Chinese side of the family of which there must have been many though I have never been able to trace any - or a picture of servants. The child is not my aunt's as she never had children but may be one of the other European women pictured.

Thanks. <Read more ...>

Came across this picture among some family pictures. On the back is written "One corner of the beach only for Europeans on the other side is one for the Chinese".

The handwriting is my great aunt's and I would date the picture to the early to mid 1920s.

Does it ring a bell with anyone and could she have been right? <Read more ...>