New on Gwulo: 2021, week 47

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

General
 

• The new cycle of wartime diaries has begun. I'll post about it in more detail next week, but if you'd like to follow the build-up to the Japanese invasion you can now sign up for the daily email, and receive daily diary entries from 1941. As examples of what to expect, here are the diary entries you'd receive on 29 Nov and 8 Dec - note the difference in the length of those two pages!
   
• There were two interesting responses to last week's post about the Prince of Wales' visit to Hong Kong 6 to 8 April 1922:
   
  • Roy posted a copy of a letter written by Eric Rice. Rice was part of the group responsible for the looking after the Prince during his visit. He describes taking the Prince on an incognito outing, early one morning: "I think he was intrigued too by moving among people who took not the slightest notice of him and bunted into him or shoved him on one side, ..."
     
  • Stephen untangles the many and varied names of the 102nd Grenadiers, the group of Indian soldiers that the Prince inspected during his visit.
     
• The repatriation from Stanley Camp in 1943 on the Teia Maru and Gripsholm was for Americans and Canadians, but Lynne's relatives were on that ship despite their British background. She asks how were they included?
   
• Klaus has written up a timeline for Hung Hom's ferry piers, following them through multiple generations as successive reclamations cut off access to the older piers.
  

  

   

• In his notes on Mr A Fuchs, David notes the family lived in Mid-levels, but their son was reported as born at a house on the Peak. He asks, was it common practice for pregnant women to move up to what was seen as a healthier environment to give birth?
   
• Phil has identified last week's mystery photo as the bridge over Wang Tong creek at Silvermine Bay:
  

  

Christmas gift idea - a Gwulo book:

Old Hong Kong Photos and The Tales They Tell, Volumes 1 - 4

My books are an easy choice if you're shopping for a friend who is curious about Hong Kong and its past, but you might also consider giving a copy to an elderly friend or relative who grew up here. Customers who've done this tell me they've enjoyed looking at the photos and stories together, and that the books have been good conversation starters, rekindling old memories.

If you haven't seen the books yet, you can download sample chapters by clicking on these links: Volume 1 / Volume 2 / Volume 3 / Volume 4

And if you'd like to buy a copy, you've got several options:
 

1. Pick up a copy at your local book shop.
    
2. Order direct from Gwulo to get free shipping and the option for signed copies - When you've placed your order you'll receive an order confirmation email. If you'd like your book(s) signed, please reply to that message as follows:
   

   If you'd like ...	you send the reply ...	and I'll write ...
   Standard signature	Please sign	With best wishes, David
   Standard + names	Please sign to Emma and John	To Emma and John, with best wishes, David
   Custom message	Please sign: A gift from Ann and Charles	A gift from Ann and Charles

    

3. Finally, the books are also available to order from Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk (affiliate links)

Places
 

• Kowloon
   
  • ELCHK Lutheran Secondary School [1964- ], identified as the building under construction in last week's mystery photo:

    

     

• Hong Kong
   
  • Gun shop on Pottinger Street
     
  • St Joan's Court (1st generation) [1939-????], Macdonnell Road

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees
   
  • George C DANKWORTH [????-????]
     
  • Thomas Alwyn HUGHES [1899-????], policeman
     
  • Lily Beatrice MOSS [????-????]
     
• Other
   
  • Dr Joseph Patrick FEHILY [1892-1980], escaped to China in WW2
     
  • Friedrich Hermann Arnold FUCHS [1865-1929], German merchant for Siemssen & Co.
     
  • Helen Nannie HAHN [1880-1949]. Both her father, Albert Hahn, and her daughter, Violet Capell, were dance teachers
     
  • Charles John Francis LESBIREL [c.1850-1914], publican
     
  • Heinrich LINDEMANN [1878-1900], a cook on board the German sailing vessel R.C. Rickmers who died tragically whilst saving a drowning colleague in Hong Kong.
     
  • William G POY [????-????], HKVDC
     
  • Cecil William SHERRINGTON [1878-1962], an Assistant at Caldbeck MacGregor & Co.
     
  • Adao Maria de Lourdes SOARES [????-????], together with his son "Ginger", and daughter Elsa.
     

Photos

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