New on Gwulo: 2021, week 37

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

General
 

• Which dry dock held the American freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams just before the Japanese invasion in December 1941?
   
• Japanese war planes bomb Hong Kong - 21st February 1939
   
• Pages on Gwulo about the Diocesan Boys' School (DBS)

Places
 

• Kowloon
   
  • 4, Humphreys Avenue [????-????] - looking for the location of this building in the early 20th century
     
  • Yau Ma Tei Station [c.1979- ]
     
  • Buildings on the then-new TST East reclamation
     
    • Houston Centre [1981- ]
       
    • Peninsula Centre [1981- ]
       
    • South Seas Centre [1982- ]
       
    • Wing On Plaza [1981- ]

Book news
 

A few weeks ago I mentioned that sales of Gwulo's books had passed 5,000 copies. We've since passed another milestone, when the regular sales report from Bookazine shows they have sold over 1,000 copies of Gwulo's books to date, 1,005 to be precise!

Often the larger bookstores won't deal with self-published authors like me, so I'm very grateful that Bookazine were willing to take a risk on a new local author with my first book and have carried each new book since. With every fifth copy sold through a Bookazine store, they've been an invaluable way to reach Hong Kong's readers.

A photo from December 2017...

... and a current link to the books in Bookazine's online store.

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Andre Adolphe Charles KOELLA / KELLA [1885-1946]
     
• Other:
   
  • Laura Frances BRERETON [1854-1871], daughter of the barrister and Queen's Counsel, W H Brereton
     
  • Francisco Xavier D'ALMADA E CASTRO (aka "Chico") [1869-1939], solicitor
     
  • Abdul Khalid ISMAIL (aka Percy) [1912-????], played sports representing the Indian Recreation Club and the Craigengower Cricket Club.
     
  • Harry Auguste KELLER [c.1889-1962], the Swiss Consul in Hong Kong during the Japanese occupation.
     
  • Israel SENGER [????-????], arrived in the 1880s with little English. but hoping to run a hotel
     
  • Benjamin Robert STANFORD [1843-1892], a British shipwright, his wife Eliza Jane BAKER [1851-????], and their children:
     
    • Eleanora Maria STANFORD [1871-1872]
       
    • Alexander Robert STANFORD [c.1873-????]
       
    • Eliza Agnes STANFORD (aka Louisa; Louisa Eliza; Eliza Agnes Hannah Maud Davidson) [1874-1944]
       
    • Amy Lilian STANFORD [c.1884-????]
       

Photos
 

A very different looking Shenzhen! This is worth viewing full screen and zooming in to see the detail.

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