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Hong Kong POWs - Tse Dickuan's list

Submitted by David on Mon, 2015-03-09 17:06

This list of the prisoners of war is provided by Elizabeth Ride. She writes:

It was the official nominal roll compiled by the Japanese "Department for Prisoners of War and Internees", which was surreptitiously copied page by page by Tse, and then re-typed with additional information by BAAG.

Bricklayers Arms

Submitted by richardb on Sun, 2015-03-08 09:41

Greetings to all Gwulo folk

My Brother, Mike Beazley, was with HSBC in HK from 1970 to 1986

He now lives in New Zealand, and is reviving his diaries .... he found an entry where he ws meeting me and my Chinese girlfriend at the Bricklayers Arms in1983,.

My only memory is of a pub in Causeway Bay not far from the Excelsior Hotel, Patterson street ?

can anyone advise ?

There are Bricklayers Arms all round the world if you google it, but not Hong Kong !

Ofcourse 1983 was pre internet days !

Early photos of Central District

Submitted by David on Sat, 2015-03-07 16:00

Thank you to Martyn Gregory for sharing these old photos of Central with us. The newest was taken in 1902, with all the others taken in the late 1800s.

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 about where and when it was taken.

 

Queen's Road Central
Queen's Road Central

 

Wellington street
Wellington Street

American Hotel

Submitted by danielwettling on Thu, 2015-03-05 08:41

Hello,

 

I found recently a picture of a Hotel called American Hotel here in Hong Kong from the early 1910's.

Does anybody knows where this hotel was located, and have a bit more information about it. Thank you very much

best regards,

Daniel

The Hong Kong Legacy

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Thu, 2015-03-05 05:51

If anybody is interested I thought I should mention that I am taking The Hong Kong Legacy down from the web very shortly. Unfortunately it has failed to illicit any leads to my Chinese great grandmother who was known as Ching Ah Fung so I see no usefullness in leaving it there. I have posted all the pictures of that time -late 19th and early 20th Century from my family archive - on Gwulo and hope they will be of interest to some.

My photo appears rotated. How do I fix it?

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 2015-03-03 15:51

Sometimes you have a photo that looks fine on your phone / camera / computer, but when you upload it to Gwulo it is turned on its side. (This usually happens with photos taken in portrait- rather than landscape-orientation).

Here's a workaround that has worked for me. I'm using the Chrome Web browser on a PC.

How do I find the newspaper for a specific date?

Submitted by David on Mon, 2015-03-02 20:57

Q. Dieter asks how he can look at the Hong Kong newspapers for 6 August 1888.

A. Start by visiting the Hong Kong Public Library's online newspaper collection:

https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/web/guest/old-hk-collection

Type the date you're looking for into their search box. You need to follow their date format, which is:

"YYYY-MM-DD"

So for 6 August 1888 you'll type:

"1888-08-06"

c.1955 Pok Fu Lam Road

Submitted by David on Sun, 2015-03-01 12:43
c.1955 Pokfulam Road

Where: The road heading downhill with its distinctive curve is Pokfulam Road. The road on the right is High Street, and Water Street leads away from the bottom left corner. The layout is still the same today:


What: There's still a fire hydrant on the corner, though it's been upgraded to a newer model. The streetlight has swapped sides of the road and may have had a more significant upgrade. The modern light is definitely electric, but the old one looks to be a

Tai Mo Shan

Submitted by Michael O'Hagan on Fri, 2015-02-20 01:46

Greetinhgs from Canada and an old HK hand,

Hong Kong 1920s-60s: Geoff Wellstead's photos

Submitted by David on Thu, 2015-02-19 18:00

Kung hei fat choy!

The first post for the Year of the Sheep is an interesting set of photos from Geoff's family albums. Several are group photos, so please leave a comment if you can put a name to any of the faces.

First some background from Geoff:

A son of Russian Black Sea mill-owners, Captain Alexander Laihovetsky and his family happened to be living in Nagasaki at the time of the 1917 Russian revolution. They moved to HK after World War I, then went to Vancouver chicken farming (unsuccessfully) in the early 1920s, but by the mid 20s were back in Kowloon Tong. Captain Laihovetsky commanded various ships trading between Singapore-Indochina-HK-Chinese ports-Japan.
 
He helped launch the HK Agricultural Show and the Empire Products Fair, and was frequently called on for advice on raising chickens by the wives of Governors and the Colonial Secretary.  His 3 daughters attended KBS/CBS (later KGV), were active in Kowloon Girl Guides, and learned piano from long time resident Maestro Elizio Gualdi.
 
Wife Vera and the daughters were evacuated to Australia in 1940, but

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