A look at what's new on the Gwulo website...
General
- A question from David: If you're reading this as an email message, please could you reply and let me know if you can see the photos displayed below in the Photos section? When I read the last few newsletter emails on my PC it just shows blue text links to the photos not the actual photos. But when I look at the same emails on my mobile phone I can see the photos fine. I'm wondering if this is just a problem with my PC, or if it is affecting other people too.
- A new wartime diary, The Diary of Mrs Grace Smith - the blind lady of Stanley Internment Camp has been added: Introduction, pages
- Documents describing Hong Kong under Japanese Occupation
- The Peninsula Hotel was still covered in wartime camouflage paint as late as 1949. When was it finally removed?
- The house, Arrowhead, and its architect and owner, Mr Alfredo Alvares
Places
- Kowloon
- #173 Tai Nan Street [????- ] - You'd think we'd have found all the shop houses by now, but here's another!
- Empire Centre [1981- ]
- Garden Bakery, Castle Peak Road [1938- ], coming to the end of its life
- #173 Tai Nan Street [????- ] - You'd think we'd have found all the shop houses by now, but here's another!
- Hong Kong
- Luk Hoi Tung Hotel [????-????], "a seedy, fourth-rate establishment near the waterfront"
- Luk Hoi Tung Hotel [????-????], "a seedy, fourth-rate establishment near the waterfront"
- Islands
- Wong Chuk Kok 97 Beacon [????- ] on Lamma Island
- Wong Chuk Kok 97 Beacon [????- ] on Lamma Island
- New Territories
- Lo Wu Camp [????-????]
- Sheung Shui Police Station [1979- ]
- Lo Wu Camp [????-????]
People
- Stanley Camp internees
- Ivy Josephine CUTLER (née BATLEY) [1918-2011] and her husband Ronald Peter CUTLER [1921-1978], a policeman
- Ivy Josephine CUTLER (née BATLEY) [1918-2011] and her husband Ronald Peter CUTLER [1921-1978], a policeman
- Other:
- Alfred William BATLEY / BATTLEY [1888-1932], worked in Chinese Maritime Customs, and his wife Ah Li / Mary BATLEY [c.1901-1966]. Parents of Ivy, listed above.
- James MCDOUGALL (aka Sonny) [c.1914-1991], Royal Scots, POW, Star Ferries
- Ackber Mohamed OMAR (aka Andy) [1913-1969], lawn bowls player, SCMP reporter
- Eliza Agnes STANFORD (aka Louisa; Louisa Eliza; Eliza Agnes Hannah Maud Davidson) [1874-1944], born in Hong Kong, and her younger sister Amy Lilian STANFORD [c.1884-????], born in England
- Tze Ying TSE (aka Robert) [????-1973], believed originally from Fujian Province, buried in Aberdeen Cemetery.
- Alfred William BATLEY / BATTLEY [1888-1932], worked in Chinese Maritime Customs, and his wife Ah Li / Mary BATLEY [c.1901-1966]. Parents of Ivy, listed above.
Photos
A panorama that is worth zooming into for the detail:
Marlon Brando in Hong Kong:
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