New on Gwulo: 2021, week 39

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

 

General

 

• During the fighting in December 1941, did either the Japanese or British forces make any use of Kellett Island?
  
   
• More memories of repatriation on the Empress of Australia in 1945
  
   
• This scene has been identified as the results of a crash at San Tin in 1933:
  

  

  
  
   

• Notes about what was for sale in this photo:
  

  

  
  
   

• Can you add any information about the Equine Sports Club? It was opened with some fanfare in the Shatin district in 1935, but we're not sure of the exact location or how long it lasted.
  
   
• I've passed the half-way point of my three-week quarantine - not too much longer to go!

 

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Places

 

• Kowloon
  
   
  • Shop houses at 96 Ap Liu Street [????- ] and 185 Tai Nan Street [????- ]
    

    

    
    
     

  • HK and Kowloon Taxicab Company's Garage on Salisbury Road [1924-1927]
    
     
  • Sakura Bar & Night Club [????-????]
    

    

    
    
     

  • Wing Lok Theatre / 永樂戲院 [1953-1970]
    
     
• Hong Kong
  
   
  • Fontana Gardens [1965- ]
    
     
  • Fountain at Causeway Bay Roundabout [1957-1968]
    

    

    
    
     

  • Japanese Tunnel Stanley Bay [????- ]
    
     
  • Tai Tam Tunnel [1887- ], bringing water from the Tai Tam reservoir to the north side of the island and the aqueduct running along Bowen Road
    
     
• New Territories
  
   
  • Kuk Po Public Pier [????- ]
    
     
  • St. Joseph's Church, Fanling [1953- ]

 

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People

• Stanley Camp internees
  
   
  • Eileen Jeanette STEVENS (née DE BIERE) [1907-2000], released from Stanley Camp in 1942
    
     
• Other:
  
   
  • Charles Frederick ANDREWS [1902-1986], HKVDC, POW, worked for Dairy Farm
    
     
  • DEVAUX [????-????], stayed uninterned during the Japanese occupation
    
     
  • James PEAK [c.1874-????], overseer for C Warren in 1902
    
     
  • Ada Maud Woods WOODS (née FITZ STUBBS, aka Maud) [1860-1940], mother of the well known twins, Doris and Aileen
    
     
  • Does anyone recognise the man on the right?
    

    

    
    
     

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