Research about Hong Kong in early 1960s

Submitted by rmann on Thu, 09/13/2018 - 18:09

Hi there,

Can anyone tell me what life was like as a British nurse in Hong Kong in the early 1960s? I'm doing some research and hoping to find images or diaries etc to help build an impression of what life was like out there. What the needs of the people were, whether there was interaction with the locals/how the two worlds integrated.

Thanks,

re: Research about Hong Kong in early 1960s

Hopefully readers will have specific information about nurses and nursing. For some background information:

For a broad outline of what was happening in Hong Kong at that time, you could read the few pages of ACB's history of Hong Kong starting from Hong Kong in the late Fifties and early Sixties. (If you enjoy that, it's worth reading about the 40s and 50s too, to get some background).
Lots of photos of 1960s Hong Kong at https://gwulo.com/image?field_gallery_tid=25&items_per_page=All
Severe weather affected Hong Kong at that time, including Typhoon Wanda in 1962, and the drought in 1963-4.
Phil (see https://hongkongandmacaufilmstuff.blogspot.com/) could introduce films shot in Hong Kong around that time.

Typhoon Wanda

Thank you for the link to Typhoon Wanda. I was 8 years old and it seemed such an exciting time. I didn't understand my mother's and Amah's worries until it was time to go back to school and we saw the landslides on the drive there. For us kids it was an adventure. A huge tree had fallen into the courtyard of our flats and we spent a lot of our playtime on that tree until it was removed.

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