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Dinner on 27th?

Next week I'm meeting regular contributors moddsey and philk for drinks & dinner. No special occasion, just good to have a chat in person for a change. You're very welcome to join us if you're free.

We're meeting at Delaneys in Peking Road, TST at 7 on Wednesday, 27th Jan. Then we'll work out where to eat from there.

Regards, David

Dates on Places - second attempt

I haven't written much these last few days. Instead I've been working down in the engine room on a couple of new features:

Film Footage of Princess Margaret's visit to Hong Kong in 1966

I found some video footage of Princess Margaret's visit to Hong Kong in March, 1966.  Includes views of Central, the Hilton, Hong Kong Shanghai Bank building (with extended view of the lions).

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=71448

http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=71425

USC Digital Library

Thanks to Annelise for introducing the University of Southern California's digital library, which includes a good collection of Hong Kong photos.

You can use their advanced search page to use different keywords, and to narrow down the search to a specific date range.

Need help finding info about a trading company during Japanese occupation of HK

Does anyone know how I can find info about a company during the Japanese occupation of HK? The company is 東榮公司, and I believe it is probably an import/export/trading company.So far, all I can come up with is this "还有东荣公司总经理何品阶、何崇阶兄弟最受“港督”矶谷的赏识,他俩是在日本土生,真正的日本通,经营进出口" from this site:

1955 - Wong Ma Kok Rd - view toward Stanley Waterfront

The clip starts at  8 minutes 53 seconds

1955 - Stanley Waterfront

5096 133602 youtube://v/Zqy4Q7x8dlk#t=8m53s

"College Garden" Where is it?

This albumen print is from an album which was taken about 1868 ~ 1874. There is an inscription "College Gardens" on the print. Could someone advise where it was?

Thanks in advance.

College Gardens

Date of Victoria Photo?

anyone like to guess the date for this stark photo of the city of Victoria? Guessing 1890-1891. And is that the original HMS Tamar on the left?

Hong Kong Race Course Fire of 1918

Hi,

I've recently put together a small web page on the race course fire of 1918.  The direct link is

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sirpaulchater/fire-memorial-page.htm

Kennedy and MacDonnell Rd postcards

I just copied these off the Internet.  I'm sure there are better scans out there and we can update these with the best available as time goes on.

What is the name of the house common to both photos ?  And what were the names of the other distinctive houses ?

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