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8750 Tai Po Road, Piper's Hill

Submitted by wvmarle on Mon, 2013-05-27 23:09

Hi all,

Just added a new place on the map: http://gwulo.com/node/15988

This is a building at Tai Po Road, Piper's Hill. It looks like a residential building from maybe the 1950s; anyone knows more about it? Who owned it/lived there, when was it built, etc. It's in pretty decent shape considering the obvious lack of maintenance. Doors are locked with newish looking padlocks, winders are intact, I didn't try to find a way in.

 

c.1961 Cine-film of Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Mon, 2013-05-27 21:49

Many thanks to Tania Scott for sharing her family's cine films. 

They were taken by her father, David Scott, between 1960 - 1962. He was in Hong Kong with the RAF on a two year posting.

My favourites are the shots of boats where he's so low you think he must be whizzing along in a speed-boat, but then... well, see if you get the same surprise I did!

(Subscribers, you'll need to click here to visit the web version of this page to see the links to the videos.)

Regards, David

c.1961 Cine-film of Hong Kong #4

Submitted by Admin on Mon, 2013-05-27 21:34

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A time-line of Hong Kong car registration / licence plates

Submitted by David on Sun, 2013-05-26 11:51

Thanks to Victor Brumby for sending this information about when different the different series of car registration numbers were issued. Victor writes a blog with lots more about the subject, Europlate blog: Registration Plates of the World.

Here's the story for Hong Kong:

Cars and other 4- (or more-) wheeled vehicles

It is unknown when the first Hong Kong vehicle registrations took place. Probably before 1910.

Crashed Plane in Tai Tam

Submitted by philk on Sun, 2013-05-19 17:09

I see that Craig has finally made the news with his project. It's in the SCMP.

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1240852/finding-us-plane-wrec...

http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1240922/site-crashed-us-warpl...

Congrats to Craig for a job well done.

Old Hong Kong Telephone Numbering System

Submitted by RF on Thu, 2013-05-16 14:28

I was testing my memory on the captioned subject and double checked in wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_Hong_Kong

However, I was puzzled by the claim that for New Territories numbers, '12' was replaced by '0'.  Wasn't it the other way round?

Grateful if anyone can clear this up for me.  Many thanks!

American aerial photography from wartime raids over Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Mon, 2013-05-13 19:39

These photos are interesting to see, both as a record of the fighting, and as a view of Hong Kong in the 1940s.

I don't know much about them, but here are the few I've heard of:

Pillboxes on the mainland

Submitted by David on Sun, 2013-05-05 20:31

Thanks to Rob Weir for the latest instalment from his records of British military sites in Hong Kong. Here's a map of their locations:

Started 1917, pg 9-31

Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2013-05-04 21:31

This is the latest Jurors List we're making searchable - here's how to join in, it'll only take around 20-30 minutes of your time.

We'll take the previous year's spreadsheet, then work through it page-by-page and edit in any changes so it matches this year's Jurors List.

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1916 Jurors List

Submitted by David on Sat, 2013-05-04 21:19

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