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Bill Griffiths' Service in Hong Kong c.1950

Submitted by David on Tue, 2012-04-17 18:29

Bill's memoirs have several sections describing his time in Hong Kong:

  • Chapter 3 : c. 1950 - Traveling to HK on the Empress of Australia. Life in a tent - army camp in the New Territories.
  • Chapter 4 : Life in the New Territories. Playing in the band. Meeting and Marrying Nancy Kong. Off to fight in Korea.

Regards, David

Beacons

Submitted by Admin on Sun, 2012-04-15 18:45

Here is a map of the Places tagged Beacon. Each one shows a site believed to be a beacon from Chinese Imperial times.

Beacons were typically built on hilltops, in sight of several other beacons. If a warning needed to be sent, the fire at the beacon would be lit. When the nearby beacons saw the fire, they'd light their own fires. This would be repeated, and the warning message would quickly be transmitted across large distances.

Click on the map markers or the links below to visit the page with further notes & photos about the beacon.

Started 1915, pg13-31

Submitted by David on Sun, 2012-04-15 18:17

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.

Step 1. Check the comments below to see which was the last page someone has started typing. You'll work on the next page. eg if the last comment is "started page 17", you'll be working on page 18.

1914 Jurors List

Submitted by David on Sun, 2012-04-15 18:03

[The list has been typed up by volunteers: David, Grace, Kate, Neville, Patricia, and Paul. Please help us type up the lists from other years - it takes less than 30 minutes to finish a page. Click here for details.]

WW2 question

Submitted by choptliva on Fri, 2012-04-13 23:39

Hello,

During WW2, my mother was an agent for the Chinese government.  Her cover was as a interpreter for the Japanese Military Police in Hong Kong, and she apparently had an alias as "Molly Wong."  During the occupation, she ran supplies into POW camps and so on, and at the end of the war received a letter of commendation from the allied forces.  All under the name of Molly Wong.  Not her real name though.  I don't know what other aliases she used.

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1961 - Doug Brentlinger's photos

Submitted by David on Fri, 2012-04-13 12:44

Many thanks to Doug Brentlinger for sharing this set of photos with us. I understand that Doug visited Hong Kong in 1961 with the US Navy. The photos (probably slides) are still sharp, with lots of detail to see.

Here are a few samples from the set:

1961 Doug Brentlinger's photos

Kowloon Tong

Submitted by keieichsee on Sun, 2012-04-08 10:58

I grew up in a squatter area in Kowloon Tong in the 1950s. It was close to the Osborne Barracks and literally next to some RAF quaters. Much of the area was below the ground level of the surrounding area such that it looked very much like what remained of a lake which had dried up. The word "Tong" in Cantonese means 'pond'. I still remember the time when some dredging work was done there for laying some huge water pipes. The trenches were probably more than 10 feet deep. I found lots of shells of cockles in the earth that was dug up.

The New Territories....1949 to 1952

Submitted by Bill Griffiths on Wed, 2012-04-04 22:15

Hello

my name is Bill Griffiths and I served with the British Army in HK from september 1949 till sept 1952....that is apart from seventeen months where we were sent to Korea for seventeen months.

In those days, Shek Kong was just a big open area at the foot of a mountain range seperating the border between Kowloon and mainland China...

There were no brick or stone buildings...just tents...No electricity, and we had to use oil lamps for our lighting.....No air conditioning of course....and showers with only cold water.

When did glass windows first appear in Hong Kong houses?

Submitted by Phaulkon on Sun, 2012-04-01 21:53

I am writing the sequel to my novel Hangman's Point set in Hong Kong in 1857.  From years of research the best I can come up with is some taverns had small glass windows, the church had glass windows , but the private residences did not have glass windows.  This is based on drawings, descriptions of wind or strorms blowing the venetians about, etc.  I am just a bit puzzled on when glass windows began to appear in the wealthy or even average farang home in early Hong Kong.  You have a fine site.

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