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Three tips to get what you want

Submitted by David on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 00:53

Your subscription to Gwulo.com brings you new posts a couple of times a week, but there's lots more good stuff added to the site each day. Here are three easy ways to get more of whatever you're interested in:

Show me everything new
Just new photos please
Only what I'm interested in

1. Show me everything new

This is what I need, as I'm just back from a fortnight's vacation. The trick is

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More Sixties Stuff

Submitted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 09:20

The Governor from 64 to 71 was David Trench:

His political views can be deduced from this photograph, although he was not the man who dealt with the 67 Riots - that was Ronald Holmes - see above.

The disappearing assistant

Submitted by David on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 21:29

The number of Assistants on the Jurors Lists dropped from 479 to 265 over just two years. Did they all go to that great photocopier in the sky?

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The Great Fire of Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Mon, 07/26/2010 - 08:16

This is a guest post by Hong Kong writer and editor Adam Nebbs.

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Swire's Archives

Submitted by David on Wed, 07/21/2010 - 12:13

A few resources if you're looking for information about relatives who worked in one of the Swire companies (Taikoo, Butterfield & Swire, etc):

Pre-WW2

Rob Jennings, Manager of Archives and Public Affairs at John Swire & Sons Ltd. may be able to help. Here's an example he told recently on the Swire Mariners Association Visitors Book:

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