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Brough Superior in Hong Kong c1930

Submitted by dfc on Sun, 2021-05-16 17:19

 

Pokfulam's Inverted Siphons

Submitted by David on Sat, 2021-05-15 16:00

I've got another 'old Hong Kong waterworks' puzzle for this week's newsletter. Unlike the recent pouring pipe mystery, this one took much longer to solve. It all started around ten years ago, back in a time of tadpoles.

tadpoles

 

Looking for tadpoles, finding pillars

When our daughters were younger, an annual ritual each April / May was to go looking for tadpoles. We'd take a jam jar's worth home, enjoy watching them grow into baby toads, then take them back to their stream and let them go.

The path to the tadpoles passes these two old pillars, made from granite blocks and standing unused in the centre of the stream.

Pillars below the Pokfulam conduit
The pillars in 2014

 

What were they built for?

A little further uphill the path crosses the

1945 - photos after HK was liberated!

Submitted by Nona on Fri, 2021-05-14 17:04
Lindy 1945 Sept 3.jpg

Shopping in Queen's Road Central in Edwardian Times

Submitted by Chinarail on Fri, 2021-05-14 16:23

Introduction

Hong Kong's War Department Lots listing

Submitted by jamesho on Fri, 2021-05-14 10:37

Hong Kong's War Department Lots listing

Site for Practice Battery, Mount Davis. WD Lot No.1

This land is Freehold War department Property.

Its area is 0 acre 3 Roods  0 8/10 pole.

It was purchased in 1905 from the civil government at a price fixed by arbitration of $ 3,885.

Are there staff lists in W.T. Featherstone's DBS Register?

Submitted by jill on Fri, 2021-05-14 05:59

Apologies for duplicating this enquiry which I added to an existing DBS thread a week ago and have just corrected. It eluded David’s weekly summary last week and perhaps got buried, but now appears below this post.

New Method School Kowloon in 1962

Submitted by theprofessor on Wed, 2021-05-12 00:29

I lived in Kowloon from May thru Nov 1962 and attended New Method School in Mongkok. I would appreciate any information anyonecan provide about the school. Many thanks.

Marker Stones

Submitted by tkjho on Tue, 2021-05-11 21:59

Marker stones seem to be of great interest to a lot of members of this website. You may find this amusing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/05/world/europe/france-belgium-border-moved.html

What happened to the Arrival Hall Miramar Snack Bar at Kai Tak Airport?

Submitted by starcraft6fan on Tue, 2021-05-11 16:31

Hi all! I uploaded some stills from movies in the 80s (hopefully it's ok), Aces Go Places 最佳拍檔 1982, and The Occupant 灵气逼人 1984. They all show that there was a Arrival Hall Miramar Snack Bar behind the Arrivals Hall flight display board. The board was then suspended from the ceiling.

Stonecutters Island

Submitted by Les Bird on Mon, 2021-05-10 11:44

Does anyone have a list of British military buildings that were in use on Stonecutters in the 1980s? Thanks

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