New on Gwulo: 2019, week 37

A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.

General

• Panoramas added from 1845, 1887 
• Thanks to Bill, Nicholas, and Paul: between them they've added the first 12 months of W J Carrie's wartime diary to Gwulo. If you can help with the next 12 months, please send me an email (david@gwulo.com). I'll reply with the text and instructions - it should take around 30 minutes of your time to post them online.
• Vivien is looking for photos and memories of shopping centres in New Town public housing estates (1960s-1980s) for her PhD.
• Did Cyril Brown write the Stanley Camp song, 'Sail Away'?
• After the Bread, Bricks, and Balls article, more info added about:
  • The Brickworks
  • Deep Water Bay golf course
  • Cable hut at Deep Water Bay
  • Telegraph cables around Hong Kong
  • Confirmation the sign on the beach marked a cable landing point

 

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What to eat & What to read Gwulo's photos are on display at the Michelin-listed What To Eat restaurant on Wyndham Street. Sample copies of Gwulo's books are also available to read while you're waiting for your tasty Taiwanese food to arrive. Address & details

 

Places

• The land where the Furama Hotel was built sat empty for 10+ years, just used as a car park. Usually land in Hong Kong gets built on as soon as the previous building is demolished, so why the long delay?
• Harbourmaster's Office (1st Generation) [????-c.1868]
• Pre-WW2 Japanese bars
  • Asahi Beer Hall & Restaurant [????-????]
  • Yamakawa Hotel and its successor the Nagasaki Joe Hotel
• The Peak Garage / Dairy Farm's Peak Depot [????-????]
• Hong Kong Club Annexe [1903-c.1966]
• Station Hotel, TST [c.1902-1936]
• Po Hing Theatre (first generation) [c.1904-c.1926]
• Kornhill East & Kornhill West, Quarry Bay
• Queen's Pier (1st Generation) [1925-1955]
• Rutton Building [1925-c.1980]
• The Blue Buildings
• St. Joseph's Church (1st generation) [1872-1874]
• An unusual concrete structure: Water Tank in Tai Hang Tung area [????- ]
• New Public Works Department's annual reports added for 1889, 1893, 1896
• This has been identified as Pokfulam Road near the junction with High Street:

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• Can you identify the building behind the trees on the left?

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People

•  Lindy PARKS / Alexandra PIO-ULSKI
• Edith CHRISTIE (née JONES, aka Edie) [1883-1973]
• Ms Chan, the beloved companion of a blind lady, Mrs Grace Smith, in the 1930s.
• Stanley Camp internees
  • Herbert Alexander ANGUS (aka Ginger) [1908-1984]
  • Matilda ANGUS (née MACAULAY) [c.1875-1947]
  • Leo Anatholy BORISOFF / STERLING [1916-????]
  • The Maunder family: mother Freda, with sons Gordon, David, & Peter
  • Christina SHEWAN (née ANGUS, aka Chrissie) [c.1905-1977]
• POWs
  • George Ian ANGUS [1904-1945]
  • Laurence Kilbee
  • Tom Whitley
• Identified as Stanley internees Florence Tribble and Arthur Raven:
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