Here are the Vehicular Ferry Piers we know of. For more information about a place, either click its name in the list, or click its red marker on the map. Your are welcome to add another place - just remember to give it the tags Vehicular Ferry Pierso that it shows up on the list and map below.
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Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Fri, 2009-09-04 17:45
I am researching into the fauna of Hong Kong between 1841 and 1942 for a book I am writing with Jon Downes of the Centre for Fortean Zoology U.K. We both lived in Hong Kong from the 1960s to the 1980s. If any Gwulo member has any memories of wildlife in Hong Kong during this time I would be very interested in hearing from you. I am particulary interested in information about tigers,leopards,wolves (I have reports of wolves from the time the Kowloon-Canton railway was being built), and anything unusual or possibly unknown to science. <Read more ...>
Last week I walked along Harlech Road, on the north slope of High West. I'd gone to take a photo of the war department boundary stone #18, which lies just a few feet down the slope below the road.
I'd looked carefully along the road before, but only ever found this one stone. On this day though, I happened to be walking the opposite direction from usual - up instead of down. Maybe that's why I spotted stone #11, a little further up the path, but on the slope above the road. <Read more ...>
On the right of the screen you'll see a new menu item 'Previously at this location', showing a single option, 'HSBC Headquarters Building (3rd generation)'. Click it, and you're taken to the Place for that building, along with associated notes and photos. <Read more ...>
We're just back from a long weekend in Singapore, and they are streets ahead of Hong Kong in terms of preserving and promoting their heritage from World War II.
Preserving first - do you remember last month I asked the AMO (Antiquities & Monuments Office) if they'd make Hong Kong's pillboxes listed buildings, to help preserve them. They replied that it wasn't possible at present, due to 'manpower and resource constraints'.
By contrast, here is a WWII pillbox and its notice board on Sentosa island: <Read more ...>
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Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Tue, 2009-08-11 06:17
I was watching this movie and was pleasantly surprised to see that part of it was filmed in HK! You get to see the Excelsior Hotel, a couple streets I can't place and the HK skyline from the 70s! This is back when Connaught Center was the tallest building around. Are there any other English language movies from the 70s with HK scenes? <Read more ...>
A question for you - how many railways and ropeways have there been in Hong Kong?
For 'railway' I'll include any place where there were wheeled vehicles running on metal tracks. A 'ropeway' is what we call a cable-car today. And let's say they had to have been built before 1950, to exclude more recent constructions like the MTR, or the Tung Chung cable car.
