New on Gwulo: 2021, week 12

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

 

General

• Last week's newsletter about the Tai Mo Shan raindrops had several interesting comments where readers added more information about the waterworks. My favourite was a 1926 newspaper clipping, reporting that a party of schoolboys from DBS had been taken on a guided walk through the new water tunnel under Golden Hill, all 4,850 feet of it. It ends that the boys "were naturally very pleased to learn that they were the first boys to go through the tunnel." I can't imagine that type of outing being approved by health & safety today!
   
• Only eight more pages left to finish typing up the 1936 jurors list - can you spare half an hour to type up a page?
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
  • Which regiment replaced the 14 Regiment Royal Artillery at Sek Kong Camp when the 14 Regiment left for the UK in 1962?
     
  • Building Inside Victoria Peak Radio Station Office
     
  • Old school house, Ma Mei Ha Village [????- ]
     
  • Mystery marker stone [????- ] near the border with Shenzhen
     
  • Mystery fort and mini tunnel on Lamma
     
  • 28 Tai Hang Road [????-c.1962]
    

    

     

  • Hong Kong's Latin American Chinese Community in the 1930s-1950s
     
  • Looking for photos of Charles MAY [1817-1879]
     
• Answers to previous questions:
  • Another location confirmed in the 1930s home movie
     
  • Details of ships sailing from Hong Kong to Australia in 1981

 

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Places

• Hong Kong
  • Hotel Singapore [????-????] on Hennessy Road
     
  • Japanese Tunnel Above Governors Walk near Two Gated Caves [c.1942- ]
     
  • A cluster of waterworks buildings at The Peak, consisting of the ruined quarters building, their incinerator, and the reason they were there, the Peak Service Reservoir [1897- ] (which likely has the same type of beautiful brick arches as the ones that were recently discovered in the disused Service Reservoir at Bishop's Hill).
     
  • The outlines of the War Department Lots on Mount Davis, and on the hillside between Lung Fu Shan and High West are taking shape as more of their boundary stones are discovered.
     
  • Tam Kung Temple, Shau Kei Wan [1905- ]
     
• New Territories
  • Hung Shek Mun abandoned village
     
  • BP16 Custom Hill [????- ]
     
  • Royal Warwickshire Regiment Stone (1961) on Lamma
     
  • The North Conduit and the North Tunnel, built in the 1920s as part of the waterworks for the Shing Mun Valley Scheme.

 

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Book news

• Gwulo's books are now available at the Art & Culture Outreach bookstore, on the 14th floor of Foo Tak Building, 365-367 Hennessy Road (see map). That's opposite the junction with Tin Lok Lane, between Wanchai and Causeway Bay.
  It's a crowded part of town, but when you get up to the bookstore's floor it's surprisingly open and airy. If you visit now, check out the stairwell from the 14/F down, where they have an exhibition of some of the many different nationalities included in the Dear Hong Kong book.
   
• Back at Gwulo HQ, our flat smells of printers' ink again! We'd got down to the last box of Volume 3, so we ordered a reprint and it was delivered this week. Thanks to Suk Woon for keeping a careful eye on the printer, to make sure these second 1,000 copies look just as good as the first.

 

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People

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Daisy TURNER [????-????]
     
  • Margaret Mary WHITE (née WOOLLEY) [1907-1983], together with her children Eleanor Mary Aston WHITE [1936-1992] and Timothy Peter Aston WHITE [1941-????]. (Her husband George Alexander WHITE [1902-1973] was a member of the HKVDC, and so was a POW.)
     
• POW:
  • William Stanley GEGG [1920-1996], a signalman in the HKVDC
     
  • Frank Burt MINHINNICK [1887-1966], Captain Royal Navy (Retired)
     
• Other:
  • Mabel Lilian Lowbridge MAY (née SHACKLETON) [1885-????], mother of Arthur May
     
  • Fredrick Charles MOW FUNG (aka Chung) [1882-????]

 

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