New on Gwulo: 2021, week 22

Submitted by David on Sat, 06/05/2021 - 15:00

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

General

Rachel would like to ask you a few questions about Gwulo...
Local MSc student Rachel Lam is looking at 'the information needs and information behaviours of online community archives' users, using Gwulo as a reference point'. Click to view Rachel's questionnaire. [UPDATE: Rachel has found that "when opening the questionnaire in certain devices, the instructions and the option 'Other' on the Google Form appear in Chinese characters though everything else including the questions are still in English." If this happens to you, please contact Rachel by email so she can send you a Word file of the questionnaire: h1251959@connect.hku.hk]
Can you write a Gwulo newsletter?
The upgrade to the website will take more work than I expected, so I'm asking for your help. I've got next week's newsletter just about ready, but after that I'd welcome your contributed newsletters to free up my time for the upgrade. Last week's newsletter from Gordon is a good example of the format - interesting text and a selection of photos always work well. New articles or an extract from a book you've already written / are writing are all welcome. If you can help, please contact me: david@gwulo.com
A new book, My Beautiful Island, is Chris Potter's mother's memoir of expat life in Hong Kong before and during the war years, 1938-45.
Questions from readers:
- Could a British citizen traveling to Hong Kong before 1997 have his passport renewed there?
- Looking for a Portuguese family living on Ho Man Tin Street in the 1960s - trying to get re-connected with childhood Portuguese friends, siblings Tom, Marilyn, David and Mary.
- If you went to KGV School in 1960, can you identify any of the young ladies in this school photo?
Answers to previous questions:
- A list of memoirs written during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong
- Paul visited the pillars of the old inverted siphons at Pokfulam, and spotted something important that I'd missed.
- More comments about "Chinese escaping to mainland China in 1942"

Places

The 1895 Public Works Department Annual Report gives details of government buildings worked on during the year.
James continues to document the military lots of land around Hong Kong, adding old documents, and modern photos of surviving boundary stones he's found:
- Admiralty Lots 6, 7, 12, 14, 15, 17
- Defence Lot 5
- War Department Lots 7, 21, 22, 63, 64, 65
HighlandPaddyHK adds discoveries from exploring the hillsides:
- Foxholes on Mt Nicholson [c.1941- ]
- Tunnel Above Shing Mun BBQ Area 9 [????- ]
- Waterworks Structures [c.1939- ]
Hong Kong
- Colvin House, Victoria Barracks [1959-????]
- Commodore's Bungalow [1897-????]
- Furama Hotel [1973-2001]
- Grenville House [1972- ]
- Masonry Bridge of Pok Fu Lam Reservoir [1871- ]
- Old bridge, Tai Tam Road north of Tai Tam Gap [????- ]
  
  大功告成 , Yes.jpg, by Jade LING
- Perfection Place 1-5, I. L. 2040 [????- ]
Kowloon
- Checkerboard Hill - a recent fresh coat of paint means the checkerboard is back!
- Poo Ai Catholic Primary School / Caritas Institute of Community Education [1958- ]
- Regal Airport Hotel [1982- ]
- Royal Garden Hotel [1981- ]
- Can anyone tell us more about this building?
  
  Ho Man Tin Hill Road-Last of the mansions, by IDJ
New Territories
- Bridge at Tai-Wai on Tai-Po Road [1900-????]
- MS 41, Taipo Road [c.1940- ]

Book news

The printers delivered the first reprint of Volume 4 last week.

If you've been thinking of buying a copy, now would be a good time - together with the recent reprint of Volume 3 and remaining stock of Volumes 1 & 2, our flat is currently overflowing with books!

Suk Woon has done a great job with the printing. I was very happy with the appearance of the initial print run, but with the reprint she has made small adjustments that make the images look even better.

I also used this chance to correct a mistake at the bottom of page 33.

People