I'm visiting the UK at the moment. Here's a quick recap of last week:
Tuesday: Off to a good start - the Cathay Pacific flight was full, but the upgrade gods smiled upon me and I got bumped up a cabin. The good luck continued with a quick passage through immigration at Heathrow, so I was soon in my room at the Temple Lodge B&B in Hammersmith.
Wednesday: Thanks to Mike for arranging a Dim Sum lunch for Gwulo readers and contributors at the Joy King Lau restaurant in Chinatown. It was good to see David, Ian, Jill, Mike and Roger again, and also to meet Clare. Thank you all for making the time to join us.
Then which museum to visit in the afternoon? Google had turned up the Postal Museum, and the chance to take a ride on the old underground mail train caught my eye. But that needs to be booked in advance, so will have to wait for a future visit.
The British Museum never disappoints though, so I went there instead and enjoyed their Living with gods exhibition. London is hard to beat if you like museums!
Thursday: A train ride out of London took me to Essex to visit Barbara Anslow. It's always a highlight of the trip, and it was great to meet for a chat. Barbara kindly let me photograph the photos and clippings in her scrap-book, so they can be shown here at Gwulo.
Friday: The other must-do is a visit to the National Archives at Kew. There is never enough time to see everything, but on this visit I hoped to find some more good maps of Hong Kong, and to take copies of all the naturalisation certificates issued from Hong Kong.
I found a couple of maps that will be useful in future. eg this 1920 map of Kowloon is at large enough scale to show streets and buildings clearly. Here's a section showing the <Read more ...>
