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"I got married in King George VI's bedroom"

Submitted by David on Sat, 2016-09-17 09:00

If you're looking for a memorable wedding day, Mabel Large's story is hard to beat!

Here's Mabel a few weeks before the wedding, when she was still Mabel Redwood:

Mabel Redwood & Mr A Raven in Stanley Camp

The photo was taken Stanley Civilian Internment Camp, not long after liberation in August 1945.

Mabel and over three thousand others had been interned there by the Japanese since 1942. During those lean years, very few photos had been taken. So when the British fleet arrived to liberate Hong Kong, the Navy's photographers made up for lost time. The press were hungry for news and photos of the former captives, and not just in Britain - this photo went to America, see the note on the back marked

Online application for search of birth/marriage/death records

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2016-09-16 03:52

I'd be interested to know if anyone has been successful with the relatively recent online application facility for records launched by the Births, Marriages and Deaths Office. I've previously only submitted written applications by post, enclosing a bankers draft. My bank has now become very reluctant to perform this clunky process, imposing a £25 fee. Very few staff even know how to do it. My last application for a bankers draft sent by fax from my branch to the International Department of Barclays was lost. The Immigration Dept.

1929 Public Works Department Annual Report

Submitted by David on Sun, 2016-09-11 21:27

A copy of the original is available at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1929/714.pdf

Excerpts:

[...]

Works under the Buildings Ordinance

[...]

B. O. O. Work. —Q 20 —

Sai Yu Shek Cemetery—Areas which had been washed out were repaired, paths surfaced and channels formed.

Cemetery Burial Lists

Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 2016-09-11 08:56

From Familysearch.com

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:939Z-5FBR-5?owc=collection%2F212...

St. Michael’s Catholic Cemetery (Happy Valley) 跑馬地天主教聖彌額爾

Title and Year

Early 1945 - life, or rather, death, in Hong Kong

Submitted by patricia on Sun, 2016-09-11 07:51

Staying up far too late to scroll through the trove that is St Michael's interment lists - many thanks indeed, Brian! - I am interested in 1945.  There are, at the end of December, between 3 - 6 burials a day, almost exclusively Chinese, although occasionally a Portuguese name appears.  Then mid to late Jan 45 the number starts to rise - 10, 15 and even over 20 each day.  By February it has dropped back again.  Has anyone a quick answer ... I assume ? typhoid?  had broken out badly.

 

c.1928 View from the Peak over Central and the harbour

Submitted by David on Sat, 2016-09-10 16:49
c.1928 View from the Peak over Central and the harbour

Where: No prizes for identifying the location of this one - we're up on the Peak looking out over Central and across the harbour to TST. It's been a popular subject for photos over the years, so I like to compare photos from different years to see how the view changes.

When: Look at the junction of Pedder Street and Des Voeux Road, and you'll see an empty spot where a building has been demolished. Here's a closer look at that section of the photo, with the site of the missing building marked in red.

Pedder St / DVRC / Ice House St / QRC

It was the

Bowrington Canal

Submitted by danielwettling on Thu, 2016-09-08 20:18

Dear Colleagues,

The Bowrington Canal was filled up and demolished, I guess in the early 1930's. Maybe I am wrong with the year. Where has the water since then, from that stream  (which was originally coming from the hills behing Wong Nai Chung) now been deferred ? Is it still running underground the Canalstreet in to the sea ? Or has the waterstream been directed into a new location. I hope I have explained my question correctly. Thanks again for any answers

Kind regards, Daniel

Hong Kong Hotel

Submitted by danielwettling on Thu, 2016-09-08 20:08

Dear Colleagues,

I came across a letterhead of the late Hong Kong Hotel on Pedderstreet dated 1928 where a guest describes the condition of the hotel. I was wondering since the hotels north side was burned down in 1926, was the south side of the hotel still in operation and for how long before the hotel was eventually demolished ? Any answers are very much appreciated. Thank you very much. Best regards, Daniel

The pineapple business in Hong Kong - any light to shed?

Submitted by patricia on Mon, 2016-09-05 20:36

I've been working on the list of taxes etc levied in the first decades of the last century.  I was bemused to see that a Pineapple licence, costing $3 per acre is listed.  This in a miscelleaneous section - along with slaughter house and laundry licences ... but no other specific vegetable or fruit products have their own licence.  I feel that 'Pineapple culitvation in early Hong Kong' might make a nice little undergraduate disseration.

 

Tong Lau / 唐樓, the Hong Kong shophouse

Submitted by David on Mon, 2016-09-05 18:00

Hong Kong's streets used to be lined with shophouses, but few remain today. In this guest post, Dr. Lee Ho Yin and Prof. Lynne DiStefano from Hong Kong University walk us through the history of the Hong Kong shophouse, then show us how to identify the different generations.


Tong Lau: A Hong Kong Shophouse Typology

 

Prince Edward Road West
(Image source: Urban Renewal Authority)

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