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Hong Kong's Tangible Heritage - in better hands?

Submitted by David on Sat, 2009-05-23 11:06

Last night's RAS talk was by Mrs Carrie Lam, Secretary for Development. She talked to us about Hong Kong's 'tangible heritage', which falls under her Development Bureau's responsibility. I guess I was expecting a fair amount of government blather, but she gave a straightforward talk, and I left feeling better about the chances of Heritage preservation in Hong Kong.

Historic Military Buildings in Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Thu, 2009-05-14 09:00

A surprising amount of Hong Kong's military buildings still exist. Sometimes because they are in out-of-the-way places that noone has thought about redeveloping yet. Sometimes because they are still under the control of the military authorities, and so are out of bound for redevelopment. And a precious few are considered listed buildings, and so are actively protected.

During its time as a British colony, Hong Kong's role as a military base went through several different phases.

Pillboxes in Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Thu, 2009-05-14 08:09

As the map below shows, pillboxes were built in many places around Hong Kong Island and in the New Territories. For more information about a pillbox, 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 tag pillbox so that it shows up on the list and map below.

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The map below is 'live': you can drag it around with your mouse, click the +/- buttons to zoom in and out, and click the Map/ Satellite/ Hybrid buttons to change the appearance of the map.

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Artillery Observation Posts in Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Wed, 2009-05-13 17:02

As we've been looking for pillboxes, we've found a few that didn't seem to fit the pillbox pattern. Generally they were on high ground where pillboxes are low down, and had much larger window openings than the pillboxes' small loopholes.

Later it seemed possible they were Artillery Observation Posts (AOPs), rather than pillboxes. Rob Weir, expert on Hong Kong's wartime fixed defences, has confirmed our guess, and given us plenty of extra information about them:

mystery building

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Mon, 2009-05-11 09:50

does anyone know what the little building is that's sandwiched between the government office blocks and the US consulate on lower albert road? Wondering when it was knocked down and why, given it's now a fairly pointless sitting out area

http://hkclweb.hkpl.gov.hk/hkclr2/object?svc=objrtv&src=CM&itemid=ULCPUTMKY@%241K155&pid=1&mime=image/jpeg

 80sKid

Type A Splinter-Proof Shelter

Submitted by David on Wed, 2009-05-06 15:43

Some background from Rob Weir on the type of bunker that T has just reported:

This is a Type A Splinter Proof Shelter, and they can be found throughout the Island and Kowloon/NT. They were primarily for troop accommodation, containing 9 stretcher beds, but other known uses were as HQ's, First Aid Stations, storage, and cookhouses/field kitchens.

New image-zoom tool

Submitted by David on Sun, 2009-05-03 17:04

[Update, 5 Oct 2009: We've changed again, details below.]

We're trying out a new tool to help make it easier to view old photos and newspaper clippings. If you move your mouse over the image below, you should see a magnified copy shown above. Currently it only works on images that are uploaded to this site, not images linked to on other sites such as Flickr. I'll be interested to hear if you have any problems using it, and whether you find it useful or not.

Hong Kong Pan Am Clippers

Submitted by Unknown user (not verified) on Fri, 2009-05-01 11:26

Hello,

This is my first posting and if my enquiry has already been addressed elsewhere, please forgive me.  Very happy to have found this site.

Upon having read many books and articles about the Hong Kong Clipper, pre- 1941, I don't recall having read about how the clipper was approached and eventually boarded.  So, my question(s):

Today's SCMP

Submitted by philk on Sun, 2009-04-26 17:09

I'm not much one for the SCMP, it rarely has anything I find interesting and takes me about 2 minutes to read. However, today was a bit of a bonus because it had a large article on a photo exhibition on at the HKU library (I think?). A collection of historical HK transport photos is on display until late June (you may find some to add to the KCR terminus project there, MrB?).

Families

Submitted by David on Wed, 2009-04-22 21:47

Forman took photos of two families, both with young children. Here is the photos of the first family, with three young children and a nurse and helper, both of whom look as though they are from the Philippines. The photos of the second family show two young children, and just one chinese amah.

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