What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Gwulo talks in York and Edinburgh. I'm planning to give a talk in York and in Edinburgh in September. If you'd like me to send you the details once the dates & venues are confirmed, please reply to this email with YORK or EDINBURGH in the subject line.
   
• KCR carriages bought from the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) in 1948
   
• A football match in 1865 HK
   
• 1928: meeting on plans to build a hostel for women students of Hong Kong University
   
• Readers ask:
  • Yanbo Wang asks if anyone can put him in touch with Roger B. Houghton, "whose work on old Hong Kong and the Canton newspapers, especially A People’s History 1793–1844 from the newspapers, is very relevant to my research."

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Contributor Pingau has been updating and adding to the records of milestones that used to exist along Hong Kong's main roads
   
• Contributor lausanching has been adding press clippings about Hong Kong's schools from the early 20th century
   
• Origins of the Strong Wind Signal, which was first used in 1950
   
• Readers ask:
  • Does anyone have a photo of Apcar G. Apcar's gravestone at Hong Kong Cemetery, plot 23---/12/01 ?
     
  • Does anyone remember the Uttam children in Royden House School?
     

  • Which year was this photo taken:

    

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Early bus services in Kowloon:
  • Kai Tack Motor Bus Company Limited [1923-1933], ran several of the early bus routes in Kowloon
     
  • 1927: New, larger buses from 1 Jan, and no monopoly granted
     
  • 1933: The Kowloon Motor Bus monopoly came into effect 
• Early English Colonial Education in Hong Kong in 19th-Century Hong Kong, and the historical foundation dates of King's College
   
• A Colonial Postbox Miracle ??
   
• Noel Instone Brewer and the Instone Banking Corporation
   
• Hong Kong War and Peace Documentary - Bill Lake
   
• Jury lists of 1840s, earliest 1844
   
• One potato per day - building the road to Sai Kung
   
• Rainstorms on 18 June 1972 and 18 June 2026
   
• Readers ask:
  • Is there any connection between the 'Royden' in Royden Court quarters and Royden House School?
     
  • Who lived in 13 & 14 Po Hing Fong at the time of the landslide disaster in 1925?
     
  • Who are the people in these photos:

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• The 'Peak Tram Passing Loop' is where the ascending and descending Peak Trams pass each other. How it works is explained in What keeps the Peak Tram on the tracks and avoids halfway collisions?
   
• Walking down from the Peak via the tram tracks after a typhoon
   
• I was very sorry to hear that Bill Lake passed away this week. We're indebted to Bill for his labour of love untangling John Charter's wartime journal to make it readable - it is one of the key wartime diaries here on Gwulo. But I'll also miss catching up with him and Phil, to be regaled with tales from Bill's very colourful life. R.I.P.
   
• Readers ask:
  • Why is Gwulo's spell-check feature often disabled?
     
  • Who was the J. W. McCleod who appears on the KCC's Roll of Honour?
     
  • Looking for photos of the Central Escalator Link Alley Shopping Arcade, before it was re-developed into Street Food Central.
     
  • Looking for information on Admiralty's 'golden clock', the original 'Gum Jung'
     

  • Can you identify anyone in this photo. HKU c. 1929 

    

     

  • Hoping to contact the families of C. H. Jackson (father) & Thomas Jackson (son), and George Ahmed. They were involved in the s/s Sai On incident in Macau on August 19, 1943, and are shown in the photo below: 

    

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