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Late 1930s Map of Hong Kong

Submitted by moddsey on Mon, 2015-07-20 20:59

Maps of Hong Kong drawn in the late 1930s can be viewed here

South African replica of old house

Submitted by Compradore on Fri, 2015-07-17 20:21

harryhktc, I saw your comment on another topic and just wanted to follow up with you on it.  That previous topic you commented on will likely be deleted.

I too had heard a rumour about a former corporate executive taking plans of his company residence with him upon retirement.  I didn't think I would see it mentioned again some 40-years later.

Difficult question, but do you remember where you heard the rumour?  I seem to recall reading it in an old issue of the Far Eastern Economic Review, though my memory of that is unclear at best. 

88HK

Submitted by mike on Wed, 2015-07-15 14:39

The Gwulo website is a forum for displaying and discuss all kinds of historical interest of Hong Kong in times gone by,and

'The (Plymouth) Brethren' in Pre-war Hong Kong

Submitted by brian edgar on Tue, 2015-07-14 16:29

I've come across a reference to 'nightly prayer meetings run by the Plymouth Brethren at the Duddell Street Gospel Hall' in 1941 (Ted Ferguson, Desperate Siege, 30).

Does anyone know anything about 'the Brethren' in pre-war Hong Kong? Or about the Gospel Hall? For example: where exactly was it? Was it used exclusively by the Brethren or was it available to any Evangelical Christian organisation?

Gwulo Lunch

Submitted by mike on Mon, 2015-07-13 18:22

If you are in London there is a Gwulo lunch 14July 1245 at Red n Hot restaurant Chalton Street,near Euston station.

Sorry for short notice but the regulars know,so any new faces welcome do come along.

Mike

1954 Summer holidays - arriving home on BOAC

Submitted by David on Thu, 2015-07-02 15:00
Children arriving at Kai Tak on BOAC, July 1954

Thanks to Ron Rakusen for sending this photo. He writes:

I started at Boarding School in the UK in April 1952 and next saw my parents in HK when I flew there for the summer holidays in 1954. 

It being my first time, I did not know what was involved but soon

The Jurors List for 1941

Submitted by David on Tue, 2015-06-30 15:00

As I've just posted the 1941 Jurors List online, now's a good chance to talk about using the Jurors Lists for research. This list is also a bit different as I've used OCR (optical character recognition) to convert the scanned document into text, so I'll give some tips if you're thinking about using it. Then finally some thoughts on sharing this type of work.

1. What you can find in a Jurors List?

This list is a snapshot of Hong Kong in early 1941. Let's see what it can tell us about a couple of the authors of our wartime diaries.

1.1 Barbara Anslow

Unfortunately Barbara definitely won't be listed, as women couldn't serve as jurors in Hong Kong until after WW2.

Her father, Mr Redwood, was in Hong Kong at the time, working in the Navy Dockyard. And the two Mr. Anslow's, her future husband and father-in-law, were in Hong Kong too. But as they worked in the armed services or civil service, they couldn't be jurors either.

So, a good example of the limitations of the Jurors List, but we'll have much better luck with our next author.

1.2 Paul Atroshenko

Paul Atroshenko

Submitted by Bob Tatz on Tue, 2015-06-30 10:42

When I first opened this post today, and clicked on "What's New", I was surprised to see quite a lot of information from Paul Atroshenko as I knew this family quite well. However, when I went back into that page a second time, there were no entries on this subject. I tried this everal times with the same result.

Dave, can you show me how to get around this problem? 

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Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2015-06-29 20:19

List of people tagged "BAAG"

Submitted by David on Mon, 2015-06-29 20:08

The following list shows the people on Gwulo who've been given the tag BAAG. It includes members of the BAAG, their supporters, and people that the BAAG helped.

To add a name to the list, please create a new Person page, and give them the tag BAAG.

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