What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
 

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• More information about the 1924 aerial survey of Hong Kong by the RAF

• 1968 film: catching the car ferry from Central to Jordan

• The final years of the Berlin Foundlings Home

• Einstein's brief visit and words to Hong Kong (1922)

• Why coal had to be stored in a coal shed

• Readers are looking for any information about

  • What was this large ship in Aberdeen Harbour?

  • When was the fence added around the railway sidings north of Mong Kok station?

  • What was the hulk moored off East Point that was shown in the 1909 panorama?

  • Can anyone add photos of these old villas in On Lok Tsuen?
     

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
 

General

• Stanley Internment Camp was a happy place on 9 Nov 1942, when a shipment of Red Cross parcels was distributed to the internees: "A prize giving wasn’t anywhere near it, and when we opened our parcels in our room we were like a lot of little kids at Christmas!" Read the diary entries for 9 Nov 1942.

• Last Monday was the centenary of the first aerial photography of Hong Kong by the RAF.

• Stephen has some ideas about the ship at the right edge of last week's 1909 Panorama video, and would welcome other readers' input.

• Memories of Honiton Road and Westbourne Villas in the sixties

• Memories of chanting at the Ammar Mosque in Happy Valley

• American pilot Donald Kerr was shot down over Hong Kong in 1944. Here is the Missing Air Crew Report that was created for him.

• Thank you to everyone who came along to my talk on Wednesday, held at the local library here in Wales. Special thanks to Tom who joined us from Bridgend, and Rod who'd come all the way from Scotland! Finally, thank you to Tracy for organising the event, and Sam for his help on the day.

• Readers are looking for any information about:

  • Who owned "Sammy", a luxury goods store located on the ground floor of the Union Building on the corner of Connaught Road and Pedder Street.

  • Is that Dr Sydenham on the right of the photo?
    

    

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
 

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• UK readers - I'll be giving a free talk in Wales on 6 Nov. Details here in English and Welsh. It'll be great to see you if you can join us.

• HK Readers - Annelise is organising a Gwulo lunchtime meetup at the American Club in Central on 26 Nov, all welcome.

• Here are clearer, scanned copies of a couple of photos we looked at in my recent videos. (If you'd like to take a closer look at any of these photos, first click the photo to visit its page, then click the 'Zoom' tab to see a copy you can zoom in to and / or display full screen.)

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• Selwyn-Clarke's report on health and medicine in Hong Kong in WW2

• Governors of Hong Kong

• The three American Landing Ships, Tank, that ferried the East River Column Guerillas to northern China in 1946

• Readers are looking for any information about:

  • Any photos or additional information about the first Shatin Police Station, which opened in 1899 in the old Customs Station

  • Female expatriates who came on their own terms to Hong Kong to work in the early 20th century, and particularly post WWII.

  • Was there a Tram drivers dormitory (housing block) at North Point on the King's Road?

  • Where in Pokfulam was Deacon's Bungalow in the 1900s?
     
  • Who were the Malay Muslims in Hong Kong in the early / mid 20th century?
     
  • Where were the 19 civilian first aid posts in Kowloon and Hong Kong Island located in December 1941?
     
  • Does anyone recognise the other students in this 1950s photograph - Rosemary Mitchell is far left. 

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  • Where in the New Territories were these photos taken?

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