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
Garden Bakery, by Philk
- #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:
and harbour. 1971., by Andrew
Cleverly Street in color (Circa 1970).jpg, by Jimmy K. C. Ho
and Cleverly Street (circa 1950).jpg, by Jimmy K. C. Ho
by S.S. Tasman, 1937, by Charles in Shanghai
Station, Fanling, 1980, by Torfaen Corvine
Marlon Brando in Hong Kong:
Click to see all recently added photos.