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• Memories of sailing to and from Australia on the MV Changsha in the 1950s and 60s, and details of cargo / passenger service between Singapore and Hong Kong in early 80s.
   
• The 1946 Typhoon
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
  • Kirsty is looking for access to Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the journal Hong Kong and South China Builder, covering the early / mid 1930's
     
  • Guy is looking for any evidence that the Royal Navy used Double Haven as an anchorage
     
  • Chris Potter is hoping to contact Carolyn Philips (previously Carolyn Blake), ex-Stanley Camp. Chris and Carolyn were both interned in Stanley Camp as children, where their families shared one small room.
     
  • Did the British military train with live ammo in Hong Kong's country parks?
     
  • Where was the photographer standing to take these photos of the SS Conte Verde aground after the 1937 typhoon?
     
• Updates & answers:
  • Notes added about 28 Tai Hang Road and its owner. Also Phil has updated the photo to show more of the road. The 1960 movie panned across the scene, so Phil has combined multiple frames to give his wide-angle view.
     
  • In the comments to last week's Men at work in the 1930s, that upside-down table is identified as being used to serve roast pig (also see these comments), and the rickshaw rank was outside the entrance to the Naval Yard on today's Queensway.
     
  • The mysterious pile of granite blocks & columns near Baguio Villas have been identified as coming from the old Asia Life Building that was on Queen's Road in Central.
     
  • Several readers added information about the Latin American Chinese Community 1930s-1950s

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