New on Gwulo: 2021, week 40

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

General
 

• Typhoon Wendy, 1957
   
• Signal hill and the meridian marks - an update on the discoveries made: ... the entire history of the built structures needed to operate it has now been uncovered and, out of the nine elements created to operate the Hong Kong Time Service between c.1883 and 1928, what remains of eight of them have been identified ...
   
• A short story about Ah Mooi and her baby carrier
   
• Does anyone know what "CCDO" stood for in 1940, or recognise any of the people in this photo?
  

  

 

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Places
 

• Kowloon
   
  • Emmanuel (Mission) Church [????-????]
     
  • Eu gardens / Chan Gardens, Argyle Street [1938-????]
     
  • Hau Fook Street (Formerly Named Salisbury Avenue) [1900- ]
     
  • 3, Jordan Road aka "Fung's Mansion" [????-????]
     
  • Ping Shek Estate [1970- ]
     
  • Tsim Sha Tsui station [1979- ]
     
  • Venus Bar, TST [????-????]
    

    

     

• Hong Kong
   
  • Addresses of Boys' and Girls' Clubs in 1940
     
  • Graham Street [????- ]
     
  • Luk Hoi Tong Restaurant [????-????]
     
  • Video of Luna Park in the 1950s
     
  • 3 Shek O Road (Swire's 'Shek O Bungalow') [????- ]
     
• New Territories
   
  • Garway Villas
     
  • Who was the architect who designed the Hindu Temple at Queens Hill Camp?
     
  • Tsing Bik Villa (青碧別墅) [????-1986]

 

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People

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • Clifford Cecil Frederick CROFTON [1915-1997], prison officer, and his father Christopher CROFTON [1890-????] who worked at CLP.
     
  • Esther Margaret GRANT (née OLSEN) [c.1908- ]
     
  • Margaret Elizabeth JAY [1900-1992]
    

    

     

  • Lionel Eugene LAMMERT [1880-1971], auctioneer
     
  • Alexander Fraser TOCHER [1908-1990], draughtsman
     
• Other:
   
  • Cyril Munro FAURE [1897-1968]
     
  • Vera REED (née DE CARVALHO) [????-????]
     
  • Volunteer soldiers in Hong Kong [????-????] lists the different names of this group. (We most often see them called 'HKVDC', the abbreviation used in WW2, but the group had many names over the years.)
     

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Photos
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Readers have used the posters on the wall in the background to date this photo to around August 1927:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Any thoughts on whether these last photos were taken in Hong Kong, and if so, where?

 

 

 

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