New on Gwulo: 2022, week 3

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Readers' memories:
   
  • Brian Seed, sports teacher at DBS
     
  • Chan Tuck & Co., tailors
     
• Was the Artillery Observation Post on Mount Parker attacked during the fighting in 1941?
   
• Ida Andrews-Levinge's diary of wartime events, covers her time as a VAD nurse, and then the internment in Stanley Camp, 1941-45
   
• The meaning of "Tiffin"
   
• An unusual boundary discovered, that splits Mount Davis in half
   
• This week's upgrade work focused on the maps we use to set the location and outline of a Place or Street. They now have the scanned paper map overlays available, something I've wanted to have for a long time, as it will make working on old buildings so much easier. Here's a look at the new features in action (if the video doesn't show up in your email, please click this link to see it on Youtube). The next job is to get the rest of the maps working the same way - the map we see when we look at an individual Place, and the maps of "Places tagged xyz" that we use to show groups of Places.
  

   

Places on Hong Kong Island
 

• ICI Godowns, 302 Hennessy Road [????-c.1947]

  

   

• Lung Fu Shan Viewing Compass War Department Boundary Stone ?? [????- ]
   
• Rose Marie Bar, Gloucester Road [????-????]

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Eleanor Stanley WHITFIELD (née HUME) [1898-1988], and her son Ronald WHITFIELD (aka Ronnie) [1929- ]
     
• Other
   
  • H W BROWNE (aka Bunny) [????- ], POW
     
  • Geoffrey Clayton JITTS [1919-1941], HKVDC, killed in the fighting at Wong Nei Chong Gap.
     
  • Charles John Francis LESBIREL [c.1850-1914], his first wife Marie LESBIREL [c.1850-1883], and his second wife Ann LESBIREL [c.1872-1918].
     

Photos
 

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