New on Gwulo: 2022, week 18

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Follow several of Gwulo's photo-detectives as they pin down the location of the village in this old slide:
  

   

• Ship-breaking at Gin Drinkers Bay
   
• Memories of:
   
  • Living at Mount Nicholson Government Quarters
     
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • Any houses in or near Chung Shan Terrace that had swimming pools in the mid-1950s
     
  • The Portland Street Public Toilet and recycling point seems to be an old, brick-built building. Does anyone know how old?
     
  • If you were in Hong Kong in 1952, do you recognise any of the people at this birthday party?
    

    

     

• Upgrade update:
  • Timelines and Events are now working on the new server. I've simplified the display of a timeline so instead of the horizontally scrolling timeline with zooming in and out, I display a list of the timeline's events, ordered by date.
  • I've still got to upgrade the Forums, Jurors Lists, Organisations, and Streets, but the end is in sight!
     

Places

• Hong Kong
   
  • Cable hut, Deep Water Bay [????- ]
     
  • Chung Hom Kok Battery - No. 2 Gun Emplacement [????- ]
     
  • HMS Tamar Wreck site [1941-????]
     
  • Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Factory, Wanchai Road [1918-????]
     
  • Royal Hong Kong Yacht Club, Kellett Island [1940- ]
     
  • Wong Nai Chung Reservoir [1899- ]
     
• Kowloon
   
  • Coal yard, Lai Chi Kok [c.1926-c.1968]
     
  • Disinfecting station, Yau Ma Tei [c.1905- ]
     
  • Ginger factories on K.I.L. 629 and K.I.L. 631, Yau Ma Tei [????-????]
     
  • Oriental Brewery / Hongkong Ice Company, Lai Chi Kok [1908-????]
     
  • Reservoir, Yau Ma Tei [????- ]
     
  • Sanitary Department stables, Yau Ma Tei / Fo Pang [c.1912-????]
     
  • Soy factory, Yau Ma Tei / Fo Pang [????-c.1949]
     
  • 63 Temple Street, Yau Ma Tei [1950- ], home to the Mido Cafe
     
  • Yau Ma Tei Market (Market Street) [c.1880-????]
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• New Territories & Islands
   
  • Haven of Hope Sanatorium and Hospital [1955- ]
     
  • Our Lady of Joy Abbey / Trappist Haven Monastery [1951- ]
     
  • Rock Carvings, Po Toi Island [????- ]
     

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Thomas Charles BARCLAY [c.1895-1950], engineer at the Taikoo Sugar Refinery
     
  • Albert BILLINGHAM [1905-1983]
     
  • Vera Nellie BRETT [1901-1985], nurse
     
  • John James CAMERON [1898-????], engineer at Green Island Cement
     
  • Lionel Eugene LAMMERT [1880-1971], auctioneer
     
  • Margaret Scott MCGUFFOG [1901-1978], teacher & VAD
     
  • Mary Margerite RUDOLF (née MCCLAREN) [1903-????]
     
• Other
   
  • Victor ORLOFF [c.1912-1959], Russian violinist
     
  • Ada Maud Woods WOODS (née FITZ STUBBS, aka Maud) [1860-1940], composer, pianist. music teacher
     

Photos
 

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