New on Gwulo: 2021, week 32

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

 

General

 

• Jill has compiled a list of the owners of the first Broadwood Road houses, 1916-1918
  
   
• Readers are looking for information about:
  
   
  • An award-winning photo of four pandas "sitting together looking like they are playing mahjong", taken in the early 1970s.
    
     
  • The old pillars under Modern "Jade Garden" in mid-levels (previously "Hazledean")
    
     

  • The Rollitt family's time in Hong Kong sometime between 1911 and 1921.
    
     

• Review of the book ‘King Hui’ – published 2007
  
   
• Gwulo updates:
  
   
  • The bug where '{C}' was added to photo captions is now fixed.
    
     
  • The Lonely Dolphin is now available at Bleak House Books and Amazon UK, as well as Bookazine.

 

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Places

 

• Hong Kong
  
   
  • 95 Blue Pool Road [c.1947-c.1972]
    
     
• Kowloon
  
   
  • Cafe Galano (嘉蘭娜餐廳) [1961-c.1978], 284 Prince Edward Road West
    
     
  • It looks as though there are more marker stones waiting to be found along the old New Kowloon / New Territories boundary
    
     
  • Wing Lok Theatre / 永樂戲院 [1953-1970] in Hung Hom
    
     
• New Territories
  
   
  • Kun Ting Study Hall [1870- ]
    
     
  • Pentecostal Holiness Church Rousseau Memorial Church, Ap Lei Chau [????- ]

 

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People

 

• Stanley Camp internees
  
   
  • Frances Sinnickson BAYNES (née REILLY) [1912-2001], repatriated in 1942
    
     
  • Josephine BECK (née SULLIVAN) [????-????], husband Ernest Jacobsen BECK (aka Ejnar Jacobsen BAK) [c.1890-1972] who worked at Taikoo Sugar, and children Pauline, Marion, Cecil, Desmond, and Doris
    
     
  • Winifred Barbara DEANE (aka Winnie) [c.1920-????]
    
     
  • Eleanor Frances DODDS (née MADELEY) [1908-1975]
    
     
  • Robert Rudolph ELLIS [1902-1992], policeman
    
     
  • Elizabeth MACK [c.1915-1995]
    
     
  • Norah Mary POTTER / RUFFELL (née HUSON) [1911-1996]
    
     
  • Christine Mary WYATT [c.1908-????], nurse
    
     
• Other
  
   
  • Abdul Hussein ABDOOLRAHIM (aka Abdoolhoosen) [????-c.1935]
    
     
  • William CHIN (aka William CHAN / 陳耀芳 / Yau-Fong CHIN) [1915-1945], believed to have worked for the BAAG, died after he was arrested by the Japanese.
    
     
  • Chung Tai CHAN (née LAU, aka 劉松梯 / Lucy CHIN) [1888-1966], mother of the William shown above, and original owner of 190 Nathan Road, the distinctive building still standing on the corner with Austin Road.
    
     
  • Helen Fairlie GERRARD (née HENDERSON, aka Nell) [1897-????], wife of George Gerrard, one of the authors of the wartime diaries about life in Stanley Camp
    
     
  • Neil Esmond HUNTER [????-????], a journalist who was imprisoned by the Japanese during WW2, and his wife Molly
    
     
  • Con Sang JAN (aka Chas Jan Wann) [1859-c.1942], a leader in the congregation of Hop Yat Church
    
     
  • David Frederick Trevelyan KINGDON [1921- ]
    
     
  • Arthur Rylands LOWE [1873-1924], founding partner of Lowe, Bingham & Matthews, and his wife Cecil Oonagh LOWE (née EVANS) [1896-1964]
    
     
  • Lawrence Hugh MCCABE [1916-1941], land surveyor, killed in the fighting at Stanley in December 1941
    
     
  • Clifton James TRIGGS [1892-1982]
    
     
  • Clare Marie Gabrielle VAN WYLICK [c.1929- ]
    
     
  • Sau-king YEUNG (aka 楊秀瓊, Yvonne TAN, YANG Xiuqiong) [1919-1982]. Born in Hong Kong, she swam in the 1936 Olympic Games representing China.

 

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