Early 1900s view northeast from the Peak, looking over the Naval Yard Extension
Here's the photo I mentioned last week:
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Summer update - UK visit / H2 plans / Next photos
This is the Jetlag edition of the weekly newsletter. Today we flew back to Hong Kong after a few weeks in the UK visiting family & friends. Though it's past midnight there's no sign of anyone feeling sleepy ...
I'll start with a few "Gwulo-ey" places we visited in the UK, then look at plans for the rest of the year, and finish with a question about what photos you'd like to see here.
UK sights
Views along the tram line in the 1920s
Join us on a tram ride through 1920s Hong Kong, keeping an eye out for these along the way:
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72 years ago: August 1945 and the end is in sight
Seventy-two years ago: our wartime diarists knew the end of the war was in sight, but would they live to see it?
The good news
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Who do you recognise in these photos?
We've got a good selection of group photos here on Gwulo, but many of the faces remain unnamed. Here's a recent example from Barbara Harding (née Landau), showing her with form 3A at Maryknoll Convent School in 1963-4:
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