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A look at what's new on the Gwulo website...
 

General

• Rachel would like to ask you a few questions about Gwulo...
  Local MSc student Rachel Lam is looking at 'the information needs and information behaviours of online community archives' users, using Gwulo as a reference point'. Click to view Rachel's questionnaire. [UPDATE: Rachel has found that "when opening the questionnaire in certain devices, the instructions and the option 'Other' on the Google Form appear in Chinese characters though everything else including the questions are still in English." If this happens to you, please contact Rachel by email so she can send you a Word file of the questionnaire: h1251959@connect.hku.hk]
   
• Can you write a Gwulo newsletter?
  The upgrade to the website will take more work than I expected, so I'm asking for your help. I've got next week's newsletter just about ready, but after that I'd welcome your contributed newsletters to free up my time for the upgrade. Last week's newsletter from Gordon is a good example of the format - interesting text and a selection of photos always work well. New articles or an extract from a book you've already written / are writing are all welcome. If you can help, please contact me: david@gwulo.com
   
• A new book, My Beautiful Island, is Chris Potter's mother's memoir of expat life in Hong Kong before and during the war years, 1938-45.
   
• Questions from readers:
   
  • Could a British citizen traveling to Hong Kong before 1997 have his passport renewed there?
     
  • Looking for a Portuguese family living on Ho Man Tin Street in the 1960s - trying to get re-connected with childhood Portuguese friends, siblings Tom, Marilyn, David and Mary.
     
  • If you went to KGV School in 1960, can you identify any of the young ladies in this school photo?
     
• Answers to previous questions:
   
  • A list of memoirs written during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
     
  • Paul visited the pillars of the old inverted siphons at Pokfulam, and spotted something important that I'd missed. 
     
  • More comments about "Chinese escaping to mainland China in 1942"

Places

• The 1895 Public Works Department Annual Report gives details of government buildings worked on during the year.
   
• James continues to document the military lots of land around Hong Kong, adding old documents, and modern photos of surviving boundary stones he's found: <Read more ...>

In April 1972, Gordon Andreassend was sitting in his office in Murray Building when Hal Empson, the Cartographer strode in. “We’ve got a problem with the process camera” he said.

“Everything’s arrived, hasn’t it, what’s the problem?” was Gordon’s reply. 

It appeared there seemed no way to get the solid metal base of the camera, weighing about one ton, and 20 foot in length, into its allocated space on top of the building. It was too big for any lift, and too heavy to manhandle up the stairs to the 25th floor. 

Murray Building had been completed in 1970, and was the HQ and home to several offices of the Public Works Department (PWD). There was no <Read more ...>

A look at what's new on the Gwulo website...
 

General

• Peter takes us Shopping in Queen's Road Central in Edwardian Times, using advertisements from the early 1900s to introduce the shops in that area.
  

  M.Mumeya Photographer & Artist - Queen's Road , by Chinarail-enhanced scans from the Hong Kong Directory 1903 & 1905
  
   
• dfc introduces the only known Brough Superior motorbike shipped to Hong Kong
  

  160999203_2795786254023286_7497450255123671744_n.jpg, by dfc
  
   
• James is documenting Hong Kong's War Department Lots, sites that were used by the British Army.
   
• John remembers watching a camphorwood chest wood carver at work in 1951
  

  Camphor Wood Carving in Hong Kong 1951, by John Anton-Smith
  
   
• A new FAQ for Gwulo: How do I find photos of a specific building?
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
   
  • After the British surrender in December 1941, large numbers of Chinese families left Hong Kong and travelled north into China. theprofessor asks if anyone knows what the journey was like.
     
  • Can anyone add information about the New Method School Kowloon in the 1960s
     
  • If anyone has a copy of W.T. Featherstone’s Register of DBS, does it include a year-on-year staff list? 
     
  • What happened to the Arrival Hall Miramar Snack Bar at Kai Tak Airport?
     
  • Does anyone have a list of British military buildings that were in use on Stonecutters in the 1980s?
     
• Updates & answers:
   
  • The 'KGV School 1962-1964' page is now up to 60 comments, re-connecting several old friends after many years

Places
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