Childhood memories of 1920s Hong Kong
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Barbara Anslow remembers her childhood in Hong Kong in the 1920s:
1927 - Sailing to Hong Kong with the P & O
Nothing in our village life in Crombie, Scotland had prepared us for the enthralling new world we were entering when we trooped up the gangway on to R.M.S. 'Rawalpindi' [1]. The Redwood family were setting off to Hong Kong where my Dad, an Electrical Engineer, was to work in the Naval Dockyard. Mum was 32, Dad 35, sister Olive 11, Mabel 4, and I was 8.