New on Gwulo: 2022, week 10

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...

 

General

 

• Readers are looking for any information about:
  
   
  • Where exactly was Luna Park located in North Point?
    
     
  • What did it cost to buy a two-bedroom flat in the late 1950s in Hong Kong?
    
     
  • An old friend, Peter RASMUSSEN
    
     
• Readers' memories of:
  
   
  • Lighthouse keeping
    
     
  • Life in Hong Kong as a Navy family in the 1950s
    

    

    
    
     

  • Royden Court military quarters, Causeway Bay
    
     
• One of the simple ways we can make Gwulo a better site is to quote the sources of the information we share here. I've written some brief notes on why it's important, and tips on how to do it well.
  
   
• Upgrade update: I disappeared down another rabbit hole last week when I realised that the "What's new" page in the new version of the website software doesn't include photo pages in its list. Since "What's new" is the most-visited page on Gwulo, and photos are such a key part of the site, that had to be fixed. I finished working on it over the weekend, so now it's back to the more mundane work of tidying up the site's appearance. Hopefully no new surprises this week!
  
  
  
   

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Places

 

Klaus has discovered that the Star Theatre in TST was created by disassembling the old Victoria Theatre on Hong Kong island, transporting it across the harbour, and re-building it in TST. As he notes, once you know the story the similarities between the two buildings are clear to see:

 

Hong Kong island

 

• The Gap [1843-1949]
  
   

Kowloon

 

• Honor Hotel, 2-12 Pilkem Street [????-????]
  
   
• Wuhu Street children's playground [????- ]
  

  

 

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People

 

• Stanley Camp internees:
  
   
  • Charles Andrew Sutherton RUSS [1885-c.1950], solicitor, and his wife Eva Mary LAIGHT / RUSS (née IRESON) [1886-1956]
    
     
  • Joseph Ernest SANDBACH [1898-1991], Methodist minister and missionary
    
     
• Other
  
   
  • Luba ESTES (née SKVORZOV) [1931- ]
    
     
  • Frederick Cyril GABY (aka Cyril) [1906-2002], and Elsie GABY [1933-1941], believed to be the daughter of Cyril and his Chinese mistress, Anna.
    
     
  • Evelyn Adam GOVETT [1882-1899], a midshipman of H.M.S. Orlando who accidentally shot himself in the head with a Mauser revolver at Castle Peak, New Territories, when out on a shooting expedition with mates.
    
     
  • Peter HALLIWELL [????-????], teacher
    
     
  • Yuri Vitalievitch SMIRNOFF (aka George) [1903-1947], Russian artist
    
     

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Photos

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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