New on Gwulo: 2022, week 42

Sorry for sending you this twice, but yesterday's newsletter had a glitch that meant the email copy didn't show any photos, and links didn't work. Here it is again with those problems fixed.

A summary of what's new on the Gwulo website:

 

General

 

• Jonathan Wattis identified the photographer who took last week's 1870s photo of Pokfulam as Lai Afong
  
   
• Pre-WW2 Hong Kong Telephone Directories
  
   
• The "small hut on Old Peak Road" mentioned in the previous What's New was likely a cable hut.
  
   
• "Radar Station" on the Peak in 1947
  
   
• Pok Fu Lam Conduit in the 1960s
  
   
• Klaus looks at the public urinals along the along the praya (c. 1900 to c. 1950)
  
   
• More about the "disappearing" searchlights
  
   
• Readers are looking for any information about:
  
   
  • Japanese department stores in Kowloon
    
     
  • Does anyone recognise this little angel? The newspaper's caption reads "A small girl of the Quarry Bay School, all dressed to take part in a Christmas play, receiving a prize from Mrs W. Stoker at the school's annual speech day last week. (Staff Photographer)."
    

    

    
    
     

  • What is the building in this photo? Possibly on Mount Kellett ...
    

    

    
    
     

  • Whereabouts in Wong Nai Chung gap is this War Department Boundary Stone located?
    

    

    
    
     

  • The title gives the photo's location as Canton, but the hill and the shape of the church building don't seem to match. Could it have been taken in another treaty port, or another location in Asia?
    

    

    
    
     

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Places

 

• Hong Kong
  
   
  • Jam Fair Department Store [????-????]
    
     
  • Kam Kwok Building, Wanchai [1961-c.2009]
    
     
  • Photos of Morrison Hill, 1950s - 1970s
    
     
  • Mount Austin Mansions [????-????]
    
     
  • Pasig / Hau Tak / Po Tak Wharf [1900-c.1958]
    
     
  • Tamaya Department Store [????-????]
    
     
• Kowloon
  
   
  • King's Park Government Quarters [c.1951-????]
    
     
  • Mong Kok Ferry Pier [1924-1972]
    
     

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People

 

• Stanley Camp internees:
  
   
  • Ruth COOK [1921-????]
    
     
  • Ann May HARRIS [1892-1965]
    
     
  • Frederick SHANKS [1910-1977]
    
     
  • John STANTON [1929- ]
    
     
• Other
  
   
  • Viacheslav Ivanovich ATROSHENKO [1935-1994], pianist and artist
    
     
  • James Daniel BUSH [1886-1939]
    
     
  • Katie GUBBAY [1878-1936] and her son Henry Ezekiel GUBBAY (aka Harry) [1911-1989], who fought with the HKVDC and was a POW
    
     
  • Jehu Constant ROSSELET [1850-1923]
    
     

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