New on Gwulo: 2022, week 13

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Bob has found another selection of old bottles on Hong Kong's hillsides, and Jeff has added information on their likely uses and dates of manufacture.
  

   

• Hong Kong's first automatic traffic lights - before you click, what year would you guess they arrived?
   
• Geoffrey Emerson, expert on the history of Stanley Internment Camp, will be giving a free online talk on Sunday 10th April: Hong Kong Internment, 1942-1945：Life in the Japanese Civilian Camp at Stanley.
   
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Angela Fairburn, a fellow passenger on a flight to Hong Kong in 1951
     
  • Any photos of the 3rd generation of No 2 Park Road. It stood for almost 40 years, roughly 1963-2000, before it was replaced by the current building.
     
  • Any photos of Tai Lam Camp / Perowne Barracks / Gordon Hard / Gordon Camp.
     
• Readers' memories of:
   
  • Sailing between Australia and Hong Kong on the SS Changsha
     
• Upgrade update: The pages to add, edit, view, and search for photos are taking shape and should be finished this week.

   

Places
 

Hong Kong island
 

• Japanese Tunnel Tai Tam Reservoir [c.1942- ], new video added
   
• Luna Park, North Point [1949-1954]
   
• 69 Robinson Road [????-1949]
   
• Junction of Yacht Street and King's Road [????- ]

Kowloon
 

• Hau Wong Temple, Kowloon City [c.1730- ]
   

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Susan Helen KING [1941- ]
     
  • More 1945 repatriation notices: #6, #8, #8 (Continued), #9, #11, #13.
    • I note the two #8 lists have a section for 'Indian Passengers'. We don't have any accounts of the Indian community's experiences in Hong Kong during WW2, so if readers can add any of their family's stories or memoirs, they will be a valuable addition to the site.
       
  • John Charter's diary explains how the black market worked in Stanley Camp
     
• Other:
   
  • Further discoveries avout the Alarakia family
     
  • Archibald HUNG / HUNT (aka Archie) [1911-1954]
     

Photos
 

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