Mappy New Year!

Submitted by David on Sun, 01/01/2017 - 09:00

For the first newsletter of 2017, here are some new scanned paper maps to enjoy. Click any of these links to see the paper map overlaid on the map below (or start with the tutorial if you're new to Gwulo's maps):

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I like the two maps of the north shore best, and a few things caught my eye - on the 1905 map I see all the old Police Stations are shown. How many can you find? Here are a couple to get you started: No. 1 Police Station, No. 2 Police Station. Then out at the western end of the map we can see the Tung Wah Plague Hospital, which came up in conversation some time ago. By adjusting the transparency of the overlay we can see it was on the site of today's Ka Wai Man Road Garden.

If you have a spare half-hour over the holidays, the 1922 Jurors List would love your attention. We've just passed the half-way mark in typing it up, and welcome your help to type up a page.

Looking at the same area on the 1957 map, the Plague Hospital is gone, but the Tung Wah Group were still in the area. The building on the SW corner of the Cadogan St. / Victoria Road junction has a shaded square and a Chinese name 一別亭 (Yat Pit Ting). The building was used for funeral ceremonies before heading to the nearby cemeteries, and was run by the Tung Wah Group.

On a happier note, a little further west were a couple of swimming areas, as shown by the graceful divers!

Please leave a comment below if you spot anything interesting on the maps.

Thanks to Andrew, Annelise, Klaus, and Peter for providing the digital copies of these maps. I've used them to create the overlays shown above.

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Comments

Greetings and yes Mappy New Year!  What an amazing service you have done!  Connaught Road Central and West was for a long time next to the water.  The 1957 map is the one I can closely relate with.  It shows the piers along the road and corrected some of my memories including the Shum Shui Po Ferry Pier location.  Regards.  Peter

There seems to be an issue with the map links to different places in the above. When I click on one I get the page not found. The node in the link is being doubled up:

gwulo.com/node/node/8447

I do not get this issue if navigating to the map page on the left sidebar