New on Gwulo: 2022, week 16

A look at the latest additions to Gwulo...
 

General
 

• Memories of:
   
  • 1958-65: Creating the first Mandarin Hotel. John D'Eathe worked at Hongkong Land during that period, and gives a detailed account of how the hotel came to be. (Also see this video taken during the hotel's construction.)
     
• Readers are looking for any information about:
   
  • How old is this stone marker near Luk Keng:

    

     

• The 'explosion' reported at the West Point gasometer in 1934 wasn't actually an explosion.
   
• Upgrade update: A slight change of plan - I've finished the core pages for Photos, Places, and People, and had originally planned to open up the new site for feedback when I got this far. I've decided it is better to get the rest of the pages (Organisations, Streets, etc.) working before I open up the new site, then I can concentrate on responding to feedback instead of trying to juggle that with finishing the other pages. I'm currently working on the 'Book / Document', and 'Page(s) from Book / Document', and then will work my way through the other page types until they are all done.
  At the same time I've put in an order to the hosting company to move us to a larger server, so it has enough space to host both the current and the upgraded websites at the same time. The Gwulo website will be offline for several hours during the middle of this week, while the hosting company makes the changes.

Places

Kowloon

LizB has been busy documenting Kowloon's industrial sites. If you can add any photos, facts or memories to these places, please click through to their page and leave a comment there.
 

• Benzene godown and storage tanks, Tai Kok Tsui [????-????]
   
• Brewery, Cheung Sha Wan [c.1915-????]
   
• Coal yard, Lai Chi Kok [????-????]
   
• Nan Yang Cotton Mill, Ma Tau Kok [1947-????]
   
• Oil-cake factory, Sham Shui Po [c.1920-????]
   
• Ropeworks, Ma Tau Kok [c.1926-1947]
   
• Smelting factory, Sham Shui Po [c.1917-????]
   
• Steam Laundry, Yau Ma Tei [c.1905-????]
   
• Tar macadam depot, Middle Rd, Kowloon [????-c.1931]
   
• Wood oil refinery, Canton Road, Yau Ma Tei [c.1926-c.1955]
   
• Wyler Textiles Mill, Ma Tau Kok [c.1947-????]
   

New Territories
 

• Herman is identifying potential sites for more of the New Kowloon / New Territories boundary stones
   

People
 

• Stanley Camp internees:
   
  • Philip APPLEYARD [1913-1977], chartered accountant
     
  • Frank Richard ASHTON [1901-1992], missionary & doctor
     
  • Elinor Mary BEAVIS (aka Jill) [1907-????], school teacher
     
  • Agnes Amanda Nina BERZIN [c.1917-????], nurse
     
  • John Charter describes the preparations the camp was making in 1945 in case they got caught up in an Allied invasion of Hong Kong
     
• Other
   
  • Lewin Arthur BENN [1916-1994], HKRNVR, POW
     
  • William CHENG (aka BAAG No. 21 / 鄭淮廉 / Cheng Wai-lim / Khan / Mo Lo Cheng) [1913-????], BAAG agent
     
  • Thomas Drummond HUNTER [1918-2002], Royal Scots, POW, OBE
     

Photos
 

Moddsey notes this may show the Peninsula Hotel getting it's wartime camouflage paintjob replaced at last:

Click to see all recently added photos.