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Submitted by David on Wed, 03/23/2011 - 22:34

[20 April 2018: Updated: Herostratus has identified this as Sharp & Co.'s building. See comment below.]

There's a three-storey building on the seafront in old photos of TST. Look at the building in the centre of this photo:

Submitted by David on Tue, 03/22/2011 - 11:55

Look at the mess in here...

I've got my "Gwulo mum" hat on! Please can you spare 10 minutes to help tidy up?

The list below (subscribers, please click here to see it) shows all the Places that are missing a "Date completed".

How to help

Submitted by David on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 14:11

Here's a video of an interesting Japanese Tunnel we saw last Tuesday:

Submitted by David on Fri, 01/28/2011 - 16:25

I've read before about the rapid growth of Tsim Sha Tsui (TST) at the start of the 20th Century, and that certainly shows up in the Jurors Lists.

Here's how the number of jurors with a Kowloon address grows from 1896 to 1905:

Submitted by David on Thu, 12/30/2010 - 15:25

A quick wrap-up for this year, and some ideas for next: