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Wan Chai Methodist Church

Submitted by BryanSitch on Fri, 2019-08-16 16:21

I have been very interested to follow the discussion about Wan Chai Methodist Church. I am a museum curator at Manchester Museum in the UK. I am researching for a new China gallery opening in 2021. I am trying to find photographs of Revd Edgar Dewstoe (1873-1951) who laid the foundation stone at the building of the church in 1936.  He and his wife Sallie or Sarah's  collection of textiles and other objects are now in Whitworth Art Gallery.

Wartime: Hong Kong in the Second World War

Submitted by David on Fri, 2019-08-16 14:55

Work in progress: this page summarises the resources on Gwulo that cover this period.

1890 Public Works Department Annual Report

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2019-08-16 00:14

Copy of original available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.)

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The Bronze Lions

Submitted by Andrew Suddaby on Wed, 2019-08-14 22:24

Can anyone provide an answer to a question that has puzzled me over many years?  The shrapnel damage on the two bronze lions outside the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank in Central is only on their  relatively protected sides closest to the bank.  Why, if we can reasonably assume that the lions would always have been positioned facing away from the bank, as they are today, is there no shaprnel damage on the side facing the harbour and Tsim Sha Tsui from where shells would have been fired during December 1941?

Am I missing something?  Andrew Suddaby

1891 Public Works Department Annual Report

Submitted by Klaus on Tue, 2019-08-13 16:24

1892 Public Works Department Annual Report

Submitted by Klaus on Sun, 2019-08-11 00:58

George and Violet Harris stanley interment camp 1944

Submitted by jharri0 on Fri, 2019-08-09 22:57

Hello readers,

Has anyone have any information about G B Harris and Violet Harris in Stanley camp? They have 8 children.

George first son is called Ron. The eldest daughter is Pearl.

Has anyone knows them? I really want to know what happened in the camp? George mum is also in the camp

het name is Ann Harris (Chung).

Montrose, Scotland

Submitted by annelisec on Fri, 2019-08-09 06:50

I have just spent a week on holiday in Montrose Scotland and the first thing that caught my attention was a famous castle fortress, Dunnottar (dunnOTTar) and a smaller castle, Abergeldie - names we know from the early days on the Peak  

Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials Collection

Submitted by Klaus on Fri, 2019-08-02 23:29

In 2008, the HK goverment funded a project to research Hong Kong’s War Crimes Trials conducted in the years 1946-1948. A total of 46 cases with 123 accused persons were studied. An overwiew of this project can be found here.

Of special interest might be the case WO235/1012:

In this case five Japanese officers were charged to have committed war crimes:

How to copy 19th century Wills from the Hong Kong Probate Registry

Submitted by Fiona Craig on Fri, 2019-08-02 16:19

My great-great grandfather, Andrew Johnston, died in 1896 in California, but lived and worked in Hong Kong.  Probate was granted for him in Hong Kong and I'd love to see a copy of his Will.  I've emailed Hong Kong Probate Registry who have replied saying that an application for a deceased's Will "can be made by or with the consent of the grantee of the probate".  As that person is long gone, I wondered if this was the end of the road, or has anyone managed to obtain a copy of a 19th century Will from Hong Kong Probate Registry?  Many thanks.

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