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Hi,

A few of the regular contributors are getting together for dinner & a chat on this Wednesday, 27th Oct, and you're very welcome to join us. So far we have Annelise, tngan, 80skid, moddsey, Rob Weir, and me confirmed.

We'll meet at the Exchange Square Lobby at 7pm, then head up to the American Club for drinks then dinner. We'll need to make a reservation, so please send me an email if you're joining us: <Read more ...>

I've found an album of over 700 photos in the PRO archives, but one has to go through them one photo at a time.  So, I'm trying to make them easier to access.  I am just putting each photo URL sequentially - which is why some are blank.  This is just the first pass, so the Captions are not with the photos yet. <Read more ...>

I don't know if anything on this has been posted before, but Google appears to have all the back issues of Life Magazine online. Amazing to flick through and a quite useful resource. Here's one for instance from Oct 7 1940, bringing to life the many faces of the British forces in Hong Kong, the thin red line of empire as they called it, as they await war with the Japanese.  <Read more ...>

The introduction to the film clip reads:

The Hon. W. J. Southorn dedicating new wing of St. Stevens College at Stanley.

I've found a newspaper reference to W. T. Southorn opening the new college buildings in 1930. I wonder if that's the event shown in the film, or if there was a later visit to open an extension to the original buildings? <Read more ...>