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1941 Jurors List

Submitted by David on Mon, 2015-06-29 16:19

[The list has been typed up by volunteers: David. Please help us type up the lists from other years - it takes less than 30 minutes to finish a page. Click here for details.]

How to: upload your photos to Gwulo (advanced)

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-23 15:47

This page explains how to upload a photos from your computer / iPad / tablet / smartphone to the Gwulo.com website, so other readers can see them. If this is your first time to upload a photo to Gwulo, you might want to start with the basic instructions: http://gwulo.com/node/2076

1. Before we start

Giant stick-insects in Hong Kong

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Tue, 2015-06-23 01:02

I have today read about a giant stick insect seen in Hong Kong by a Mt Nicholson bird watcher, Clive Viney,in 1988 that measured 12 inches long and a leg to leg measurement of 22cm. The body length of 12 inches is just 2 inches short of the world record of 14 inches,also in China. 

Does anyone have any similar stories of giant HK stick insects?

 

Early photos of Hong Kong people

Submitted by David on Sat, 2015-06-20 13:00

Thank you to Martyn Gregory for sharing these old photos of Hong Kong people with us. They date from the late 1800s to the early 1900s.

You can click on any photo to visit its page. There you can zoom in to see more detail, read any notes about the photo, and add a comment if you can tell us anything about the photo.

The first set shows posed scenes of Chinese life. I doubt if the tourists who bought these photos ever saw the scenes in real life, but no doubt they were a good source of stories when they got back home again.

School run from Kowloon to Victoria 1909-1913?

Submitted by jill on Tue, 2015-06-16 19:09

What would have been the method of transport and timing from Fairview, Nathan Road, Kowloon to St Joseph’s College and back from 1909-1913? I know that my uncle, Leslie Warren, attended St Joseph’s during this time and I also know that my grandparents were living at 4 Fairview, Nathan Road, where my father was born. It doesn’t seem a very practical journey, but perhaps I'm wrong.

瑪利諾中學1985-1990 reunion

Submitted by Conan on Thu, 2015-06-11 22:13

Hi all,

I just want to get in touch with some of my friends back to 1985-1990. I was studied at 瑪利諾中學 from F1-F5. Then move to New Zealand. I lost a lot of contacts and one of my best friend is 譚家強. If you know someone or you are 譚家強 please contact me.

Cheers

陳曉生

c.1928 Houses on a hill

Submitted by David on Sun, 2015-06-07 09:00
c.1928 Houses on a hill

Where: Any ideas? There's a sign where the path splits left and right, but it is too far away to read. And though I don't recognise the location this is

GPS coordinates of pillboxes

Submitted by David on Fri, 2015-06-05 08:54

Alexander writes:

Could we have back the coordinates of the relics from your map such as...

http://gwulo.com/node/15792

Example as in PB104a/b 114.26014, 22.33317

I think it is more easy and convenient for the layman to visit those wartime relic sites at their leisure.

I've made a couple of changes to that map:

HONG KONG POLICE MAGAZINE

Submitted by Richard Muirhead on Thu, 2015-06-04 22:08

I was at the British Library in London in late May `15 looking through their collection of the Hong Kong Police Magazine from the early 1950s to 1970. It provided a fascinating and often humourous glimpse into colonial  policing during that era. It was also bi-lingual but I cannot read Chinese. I was actually looking for unusual fauna-related stories and I wasn`t disappointed, I found an account of a Chinese Giant Salamander which I vaguely have a memory of seeing before but it was good to see again.

Is anyone still using old.gwulo.com ?

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-06-02 15:17

That's the snapshot of the pre-upgrade version of the Gwulo website.

I'll close it in the next few days, so if there is anything you still use it for that isn't working on the new site, please let me know.

Regards, David

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