Good morning. Apart from the obvious - that it is a car badge from POW association - does anyone have additional info - age/who had them etc. Many thanks, <Read more ...>
Where: The photographer is standing on a hillside, looking south across Rennie's Mill (today's Tiu Keng Leng). An earlier view from the 1950s was taken from a slightly different angle, and shows the main housing area was out of sight to the right of our photo. It also shows how the built-up area had expanded by the time this 1960s photo was taken.
In the right foreground is a shallow bay, roughly where <Read more ...>
Here is a list of children in Stanley Camp aged up to 16yrs, as at 09/02/1944. This is a list that I typed up maybe 20 years ago and is taken from something that looks fairly official that I was given at a reunion in HKG that I attended in the early days. <Read more ...>
Following on from David’s Club Lusitano’s historic propeller story here are two flags that could also be categorised as ‘items of interest displayed on walls’. These framed flags currently hang in the Marine Police Headquarters in Sai Ying Pun.
The first is the Japanese flag that flew over the old Marine Police Headquarters building in Tsim Sha Tsui during the World War II. During the occupation the Japanese navy used the old MPHQ building as a local headquarters. <Read more ...>
The RAS have invited me to be quiz master for their Quiz Night on Friday, 25th May. Expect questions about old Hong Kong photos and a selection of the odd historical items we find around town!
There is a Manhole Cover Exhibition at CACHe now. It is approaching its last leg of the slot, but if you are in the area it is worth a visit.
The exhibition is a small one. Anyone who had been to CACHe would know the room is not that big. But the exhibition covered from the ship-building and foundry industires, with scaled models of wooden moulds of the covers. There are also a small collection of the covers in the room. <Read more ...>
Government Buildings were rewired. Twenty-five telephones were installed, improvements and additions were carried out in six buildings in Hong Kong, five in Kowloon and two in New Territories.
31. The laying of two submarine cables and buried land cable work was completed.
