New on Gwulo: 2021, week 14

Submitted by David on Sat, 04/10/2021 - 18:00

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

General

Memories of sailing to and from Australia on the MV Changsha in the 1950s and 60s, and details of cargo / passenger service between Singapore and Hong Kong in early 80s.
The 1946 Typhoon
Readers are looking for information about:
- Kirsty is looking for access to Volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the journal Hong Kong and South China Builder, covering the early / mid 1930's
- Guy is looking for any evidence that the Royal Navy used Double Haven as an anchorage
- Chris Potter is hoping to contact Carolyn Philips (previously Carolyn Blake), ex-Stanley Camp. Chris and Carolyn were both interned in Stanley Camp as children, where their families shared one small room.
- Did the British military train with live ammo in Hong Kong's country parks?
- Where was the photographer standing to take these photos of the SS Conte Verde aground after the 1937 typhoon?
Updates & answers:
- Notes added about 28 Tai Hang Road and its owner. Also Phil has updated the photo to show more of the road. The 1960 movie panned across the scene, so Phil has combined multiple frames to give his wide-angle view.
- In the comments to last week's Men at work in the 1930s, that upside-down table is identified as being used to serve roast pig (also see these comments), and the rickshaw rank was outside the entrance to the Naval Yard on today's Queensway.
- The mysterious pile of granite blocks & columns near Baguio Villas have been identified as coming from the old Asia Life Building that was on Queen's Road in Central.
- Several readers added information about the Latin American Chinese Community 1930s-1950s

Places

Hong Kong
- ARP Portal No. 60 below Monmouth Terrace Playground above Star Street [c.1941- ]
- Harlech Road [c.1904- ]
- Japanese Tunnel in Pinewood Battery Area Lung Fu Shan [c.1943- ]
- The Hong Kong Electric Co. Ltd Kennedy Road Substation [????- ]
- Nine Arches Buildings 15-23, Connaught Road [1903-c.1962], first home of the SCMP
  - Fung House (first generation) [c.1957-c.1982]
- No 2 Tank [c.1860-c.1913], part of Hong Kong's early water supply
- P & O Pier (first generation) [c.1875-c.1895]
- Spring Garden Lane Pier [c.1880-c.1910]
- Stone Nullah Lane [c.1850- ]
- Small unknown construction below unpaved trail to Pinewood Battery Heritage Trail [c.1905- ]
- Three successive, and very different uses of the land just below the junction of Hospital and Bonham Roads:
  - Unknown / No. 8 Police Station (2nd generation), IL598 [????-1925]
  - Basketball Court [????-????]
  - Yu To Sang Memorial Secondary School / Central and Western District St Anthony's School [c.1959- ]
Kowloon
- Hong Kong Observatory Signal Tower - Kowloon Hospital [????- ]
New Territories
- The South Conduit and the South Tunnel, built in the 1920s as part of the waterworks for the Shing Mun Valley Scheme.
- Rosary Mission Center [1939- ], a Roman Catholic Church in the Sai Kung countryside, and the site where the Hong Kong-Kowloon Independent Battalion of the East River Guerrillas declared its establishment on 3 February 1942.
Islands
- Cheung Chau
  - A Cave Inscribed with Romantic / funny Poems
  - European house #11 [????- ]
  - Ruined house on IL 58 [????- ]
- Lamma
  - Wong Chuk Kok 97 Beacon [????- ]

People

REPATRIATION NOTICE No. 66 lists people leaving for the United Kingdom during the first week of April, 1946, on board the S.S. Strathmore.
The 1942 list of casualties lists the men who died or were wounded from the Dockyard Defence Corps, Hong Kong Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and Merchant Marine
Betty Eva READMAN (née YOUNG, aka Yee Wah Yeung) [c.1930-1968]
Robert George SUTHERLAND [1874-1947], worked at Jardine Matheson, Chieftain of the St Andrew's Society