New Hong Kong biographical history title coming out 27 October: Going Native: The Passions of Philip Jacks by Rohan Price. Publisher: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Where: The lamps on the building show the word "Hotel".
They light up the Hong Kong Hotel [1], so we're looking north along Pedder Street from near the junction with Queen's Road. The curved building in the distance was the Hotel Mansions building, later called the Union Building [2]. At this time it housed an extension of the Hong Kong Hotel.
Who: It's a fascinating scene, with so many people coming and going. A few caught my eye... <Read more ...>
A copy of the original document is available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.) Thanks to Herostratus for help providing the text below.
Excerpts:
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18.Military Lands
As the result of quarrying operations, Mount Cochrane is fast disappearing and the area occupied by the hill will become available for building purposes.
In the summer of 1966 I took over as the Officer in Charge of Sai Kung police station. It was regarded as a very good posting, for there was hardly any crime, and the Sai Kung peninsula and its waters were very beautiful. The American film company 20th Century Fox were making The Sand Pebbles, starring Steve McQueen, Richard Attenborough, Candice Bergen with a young Jackie Chan as a stunt man. They had originally wanted to do part of the film on location in the Yangtse River, but could not get permission to enter China. <Read more ...>
A good starting point is to make a "Person" page on Gwulo for the person you are interested in: http://gwulo.com/node/add/person
Fill in as many of the details as you can, then use the Notes to add any extra information. I see the people who get the best responses include the following information in their Notes: <Read more ...>
I spent last weekend in Taipei, and before I went I asked in the Forum for any recommendations of Gwulo-y places to visit. Thomas replied suggesting Fort San Domingo in Tamsui. It's easy to get to from Taipei, so that's where we went.
We picked up this map from the information office near Tamsui station. A Hong Kong name caught my eye - can you spot it?
This covers the period 1904 -1960. There was a further renumbering that took effect on 1st September 1960 to give the present peak numbering system but I have not found a complete record of the change online. <Read more ...>
