Im new to the site and I am looking to find out information regarding my mothers family who had a business Sing Hop, Ship and House Painter located at No. 97 Parkes Street, Yaumati, HongKong. I tried to locate it on the web but to no avail.
Does anyone have information as to how I might be able to find out what happened to the business.
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I am engaged in editing the logbook of HMS Tarantula. An intriguing entry for the 6th July 1923 reads,"At Wuchow. 11.30am: Baptism Service held on board. Dorothy Haslett Hunter christened by the Rt Reverend the Bishop of Victoria." A christening aboard a ship of the Royal Navy is highly unusual, so I wonder who was Miss Hunter and why the Bishop travelled from HK to christen her? <Read more ...>
After an unusually hot month of May, I've been thinking about Hong Kong's drinking water. I've never had to worry about water rationing, so I take it for granted there's water in the tap. That's only a recent luxury though, as Hong Kong struggled for many years to provide its residents with enough drinking water. I'm sure many readers will remember scenes like this.
Catching the rain
Hong Kong doesn't have any large rivers or natural lakes it can rely on for fresh water, so early residents relied on <Read more ...>
After WW2, the Hong Kong Government started publishing a book containing a report of the year's events. The Hong Kong public library has electronic copies available to read online - BUT some years have the complete book online, while others only have a few pages online). <Read more ...>
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Where: The name of the tug, "TAI KOO" is the clue. Part of its work was to serve the Taikoo Dockyard, and that dockyard is what we can see in the foreground.
We're looking at the eastern end of the dockyard, which had three slips and a large dry dock. I guess the photographer was on board a ship that was hauled up out of the water on slip number 3, the slip at the bottom right corner of this plan.
