New on Gwulo: 2021, week 8

A look at what's new on the Gwulo website...

General

• The "Free Gwulo books for teachers" offer is now online. If you know anyone teaching Hong Kong history (whether a history teacher, or a teacher who covers Hong Kong history as part of a broader topic), please could you let them know?
   
• Two online talks next week, both free to attend:
  • Wednesday 3 March: Patricia O'Sullivan will give a talk about her new book Women, Crime and the Courts-Hong Kong 1841-1941, telling some of the stories from the book and a few additional ones, plus background and context of women's lives in this period.
     
  • Friday 5 March: Amelia Allsop discusses the creation of one of the largest oral history collections in Hong Kong.
     
• Rob Weir, regular contributor to Gwulo, has written "Researching Hong Kong Pillboxes: The Hard Way", describing his experiences exploring the countryside to learn about Hong Kong's pillboxes.
   
• Video of The last spitfires in Hong Kong
   
• Readers share more memories of Hong Kong in the late 1950s - early 1960s

Places

• Hong Kong
  • 10, Queen's Road Central [????-1936]
     
  • Looking for information about The Catholic Club in the 1920s
     
  • Club Germania (German Club) (Wyndham St - 2nd location) / French Hotel / Hotel America / Baltimore Hotel / Nippon Club / College Chambers [1872-????] - demolished in 1912?
     
  • D'Aguilar Battery : Upper Gun Emplacement [????- ]
     
  • GPO Mail distribution bridge and tower [c.1955-c.1977] - the bridge & conveyor belt used to carry mail across Connaught Road to the mail boats.
    

    

  • Japanese Wartime Tunnel beside Pillbox 022 Sha Shek Tan [????- ]
     
  • Shing Wong Street [????- ]
     
• Piers
  • Jordan Road Temporary Vehicular Ferry Pier [1960-????]
     
  • P & O Pier [c.1909-c.1965]
     
  • Ping On Wharf [c.1924-c.1958]
     
  • Public Square Street Pier [1923-c.1971]
     
  • Queen Victoria Street Pier [1922-c.1933]
     
  • Sham Shui Po Ferry Pier (1st generation) [1924-1979]
     
  • Klaus has provided this annotated photo to show the piers along the north shore:
    

    

• Kowloon
  • Hong Kong Observatory Signal Tower in the grounds of the Kowloon Hospital [????- ]
     
  • JDH Centre [1980-1992]
     
  • "Red Roofs" [????- ]
     
  • Whampoa Terminal Building [1980-1992]
     
• New Territories
  • Li Yuen Archway (李苑) [c.1937- ]
     
  • Quarry Camp [????-????], British Army camp
     
  • Origin of name Sau Fu Street in Yuen Long
     
  • Tai Hing Slaughterhouse, Lantau [1960-1980]
     
  • Old Tea Farm on the hilltop of Tai Mo Shan [????- ]

Book news

• 15% off
  The local My Book One online bookstore is having a sale. Until 7 March they're offering all four of Gwulo's books at 15% off: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, and Volume 4.
   
• Thanks to sifree for the first Amazon review of Volume 4:
  "As a former Hong Kong resident I have thoroughly enjoyed all of David's previous books and this one is equally as fascinating. As well as providing an interesting insight into life in old Hong Kong, it has made me look at old photos and films in a whole new way - looking closer to find out what clues I can gain from them.
  What I particularly enjoyed about this volume was that there are more photos of Kowloon (my old stomping ground). It's always interesting to see what your former neighbourhood used to look like and how much it has changed over the years. Highly recommended for anyone with links to Hong Kong who has an active interest in its history."
   
• I'm also pleased to see that Poirot, Hong Kong's only feline book reviewer, continues to give Gwulo's books a purr of approval with their review of Volume 3.
   
• If you've read my latest book and would like to dig deeper, I've posted a list of the photos in Volume 4. You can click on any photo to see more information about the scene, and add comments to the photo to ask questions or add more detail.

People

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Ferdinand Farrant DUCKWORTH [1891-1963], his wife, and daughter Joan CRAWFORD (née DUCKWORTH) [c.1918-2014]
     
  • Arkady Alex KORSHOONOFF [1908-????], policeman
     
  • Lionel MCRAE [1898-1986], master mariner
     
  • Charles Basil MURPHY [1912-1993], a Canadian RC priest
     
  • Hugh Handley PEGG [1889-1982], PWD
     
• HKVDC:
  • George Albert Victor HALL [1897-1956], an architect
     
• Other:
  • Lily would like to get in touch with her classmates from the Minden Row Junior Army School, especially her friend Mary King. Here's the class in 1969:

    

  • More on the Alarakia family
     
  • New resources for families with Macanese roots
     
  • Captain Douglas FORD [1918-1943]
     
  • Looking for any information about the photographer Amanda M. GENUNG bee BALDWIN who, with her son Charles, spent a couple of years in Hong Kong taking portraits (most likely from 1858-1860).
     
  • Henry GITTINS (aka Hung Shik Chi) [1871-1954]
     
  • Looking for information about KWAN Yuen Cheong, his 15 sons & daughters, and their descendants
     
  • John Farrar MACGREGOR (aka Jack) [c.1886-1968] and wife Dorothy Annette Shelton MACGREGOR (aka Dot) [c.1889-1965]
     
  • Mabel Lilian Lowbridge MAY (née SHACKLETON) [1885-????], her husband George William MAY [1878-????], and their son Arthur Frederick MAY [1907-2000]
     
  • William Jenkins WEBB ANDERSON [1870-1933], missionary doctor

Photos

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