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Mills Chung path 苗鍾徑 at Deep Water Bay

Submitted by pyktsang on Wed, 2013-05-01 17:45

I am curious as to the origin of the subject path.

1. When was it built

2. Why

3. Who built it

4. Why was it named Mills Chung path 苗鍾徑 

5. Were Mills and Chung two different persons and if so what were their background

Look forward to comments

Paul

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Now that's quite an address

Submitted by patricia on Tue, 2013-04-30 18:33

Sorry, I'm lowering the tone of this forum, but I'm just typing some of the 1916 Jurors list, and I've found a man after my own heart.  Benjamin James Spittles, works for AS Watson and gives his residence as the Wine Department.  Ahhh!  

Seamen's Hospital

Submitted by Sandy_Song on Wed, 2013-04-24 18:41

Any photos on Seamen's Hospital?

HKU Chinese Department 1920s

Submitted by wann on Mon, 2013-04-22 18:39

if you were in HKU's chinese department in the 20s, grateful if you live to see this forum. Chances are that your granddad or a distant relative might have taught or studied there, and talked to you about it, or even left a few photos. It should be late twenties or early thirties as the chinese dept only came into existence around 1927 under the effort of Governor Clementi who was himself extremely knowledgeable in chinese.

David gives a talk on 24th April : you're invited

Submitted by David on Sun, 2013-04-14 21:15

[17 April update: The talk is now fully subscribed at 70 people, so unfortunately we can't take any more bookings. Thanks to everyone who has booked, and I look forward to meeting you next Wednesday.]

I'll show a selection of my favourite old Hong Kong photographs, and tell the stories behind them.

Most of the photos were taken around 1900-1930, and show a Hong Kong that has long since disappeared. They have been scanned at high-resolution and digitally restored, so I can zoom in to show their hidden details

Where was this?

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Fri, 2013-04-12 02:39

If you go to http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0055574.html you will find a picture of Queen's Road taken in 1869. It clearly shows a building called the Victoria Exchange and I wonder if anybody has a number in Queen's Road for this building at the time the picture was taken?

Policeman's collar numbers

Submitted by David on Wed, 2013-04-10 15:59

Old photos of policemen show them with a number on their collars. I'm hoping we can use them to help date any photos they appear in.

I'm interested to know:

  • Was a given number unique to one policeman, or were they ever re-used?
  • Is there any list available that shows when a given number was assigned?

If there's no list, we can work backwards from any photos we know the dates of.

eg HF Siu has identified policeman #218 in this photo from the 1880s:

CPS Project: 1st update, more questions

Submitted by David on Tue, 2013-04-09 10:30

I'm still searching for photos of the Central Police Station, Magistracy, and Prison [1]. Here are some of the photos I've found, and also a few questions that they've raised. Thank you to everyone who has helped so far, and any extra offers of help will be very gratefully received!

The Central Police Station and its parade ground

Here's an old postcard view that was sent by reader 'moddsey':

1900s Central Police Station

The policemen are lined up on the parade ground, in front of the Barracks Block.

We'd originally dated this photo to the 1910s, but I'll have to update that. The Barracks Block had a fourth storey added in 1909, so this view of the original 3-storey building must have been taken earlier.

A photographer would usually be present for the big events held here. They weren't always professional photographers though. The next photo was taken in 1917 by Harry Ching [2]. It was sent in by his son Henry, who says his father was a keen amateur photographer.

1917 Police Reserve

The Police Reserve was formed in 1914 to help replace the policemen who went back to Europe to fight in World War 1. Reader '1314' gives a likely explanation of the event being photographed above:

Stereo Views of Old Hong Kong

Submitted by IckyChris on Wed, 2013-04-03 15:16

Here is a link to the first of very many restored stereo images of Old Hong Kong.

http://phereo.com/image/515bc8e85ec3460971000005 

On this website, you can choose your favorite stereo viewing method.

I will keep adding to this first one, as I have several dozens of beautiful old stereo images of Hong Kong. These are scanned from original cards, downloaded from The Library of Congress, and from The Welcome Trust.

THANKS TUNG

Submitted by anonymous-01 on Mon, 2013-04-01 22:12

Hi Tung,

Fascinating reply. I am very grateful for your interest. I will post some pictures separately which may be of interest to you and others.

Regards,

Sean

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