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It’s a small photo, just 8cm / 3in wide, but there’s enough detail for us to investigate who and what we’re looking at, where and when the photo was taken.
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More information about the 1924 aerial survey of Hong Kong by the RAF
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This week’s video explores the second of the two 1909 panoramas I received recently. The photos that make up the panorama are sharp enough that we can see details as far away as Lai Chi Kok, even though the photographer took the photos from mid-levels on Hong Kong island.
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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.
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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.
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I've scanned in the pieces of the panorama that I carefully softened and unrolled in the previous video, and reassembled them in Photoshop. The original photos are sharp, so the panorama enlarges well:
In this week's video I show the finished result, introduce a surprise bonus, then explore the panorama’s details. The final image is over 500 megapixels in size, so there’s lots to see!
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