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Slow boat to Macau?

Submitted by Bails on Mon, 2016-05-09 22:27

I have a dim and distant (childhood)recollection of an 'over-night' boat to Macau from Hong Kong.

I wonder whether anyone can recall this? I seem to think you boarded the boat in the evening, on a quite large passenger boat/ferry and arrived in the early morning in Macau.

Given the distance to Macau, it does seem rather unlikely? It must have travelled extremely slowly!
 

Any thoughts?

RHKP Triumph Motorbikes

Submitted by Fai Jai on Sun, 2016-05-08 17:13

I'm looking for any information about the motorbikes used by the Police in the 60's.

My father (Murray Todd) was in the traffic division at that time, and rode one of the silver-grey Triumph motorbikes.They were of a type called a "bathtub Triumph" because of the distinctive shape of the rear wheel mudguard, which resembled an up-side down bathtub.

If possible I want to buy one and restore it, but I don't know exactly what model the Police used (there were various bathtub Triumph models).

They can be seen clearly in recruiting photo on this site, 'hkp 6.jpg'.

Deacons' archive

Submitted by annelisec on Sun, 2016-05-08 04:54

Deacons archive at HKU

A tree I manage on Geni.com was merged with another tree, each containing Charles David Bottomley, an attorney. So I did a new search on his name brought up an XL file with abstracts of lots of various transaction by Deacons.  

This one was entry

1920s Sheung Wan

Submitted by David on Sat, 2016-05-07 11:39
1920s Sheung Wan

 

Where: There's a shop sign for "Lee Jim Kee / 李占記" that shows the address:

Lee Jim Kee sign

Although the text is a bit fuzzy, we can see it's a single digit address on

Contribute to Gwulo

Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-05-05 15:57

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A "family map"?

Submitted by jill on Tue, 2016-05-03 07:33

David

It’s a long shot, but I’m wondering whether, with your magic mapping, it would be possible to compose a “family map” pinpointing on one map the addresses where the various members of my family lived, within a period of 5 years.

House Of Wives by Simon Choa-Johnston - Soon at Swindon Books

Submitted by annelisec on Tue, 2016-05-03 00:54

Dropping 4 May 2016. 

more ...http://www.bukowskiagency.com/Wives.htm

Also see Simon's blog "The House that Opium built" ... http://simonjohnston.ca/Blog.php

The House of Wives

a novel by Simon Choa-Johnston

Exploring the Japanese wartime sites at Tai Mo Shan

Submitted by David on Sun, 2016-05-01 10:00

A couple of weekends ago I joined Thomas to explore the WW2 radar station [1] and anti-aircraft gun sites [2] that the Japanese built on Tai Mo Shan. We'd read Tymon Mellor's account of the Japanese wartime radar site there [3], and wanted to see what remains today.

"Tai Mo Shan" is Cantonese for "Big hat mountain", and it certainly had its cloudy hat on the day we visited. Despite the fog we still found lots to see.

Getting there - the walk to the site

Here's the route we took, marked in red on the map [4].

Military sites at Tai Mo Shan

We started at

Nostalgic meetup in Siu Sai Wan, Hong Kong - 367 Association or other members of Little Sai Wan RAF veterans

Submitted by Roger Ho on Thu, 2016-04-28 15:43

I currently live in SiuSaiWan and work voluntarily with a local district councilor in trials to recommend local government in hoping to re-vitalize the living quarter (now ruined but still there) of Collinson Anti Aircraft Searchlight (AASL) to become a meaningful historical and recreational facility. 

Plague deaths in Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Thu, 2016-04-28 12:58

Where no source is given, the number of case is taken from a table on page M25 of the Medical & Sanitary report for 1929, http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1929/709.pdf

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