New on Gwulo: 2022, week 42

Submitted by Admin on Tue, 10/18/2022 - 10:00
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)."
      quarry bay school girl the china mail page 12 19th december 1953
      quarry bay school girl the china mail page 12 19th december 1953, by eurasian_david

       

    • What is the building in this photo? Possibly on Mount Kellett ...
      Holliday villa ...My sister and brother with Amahs.
      Holliday villa ...My sister and brother with Amahs., by Porteous63

       

    • Whereabouts in Wong Nai Chung gap is this War Department Boundary Stone located?
      War Department Marker Stone #3, Wong Nai Chung Gap
      War Department Marker Stone #3, Wong Nai Chung Gap, by Rob

       

    • 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?
      The普慶戲院 in Canton with The Sacred Heart Cathedral in the background
      The普慶戲院 in Canton with The Sacred Heart Cathedral in the background, by Raymond Lo

       


 

Places
 


 

People
 


 

Photos
 

1970s central to hunghom pier
1970s central to hunghom pier, by simtang

 

chai wan resettlement estate
chai wan resettlement estate, by madwith

 

Gascoigne Road gas station 1959
Gascoigne Road gas station 1959, by simtang

 

Circus Busch The China Mail page 2 8th February 1954
Circus Busch The China Mail page 2 8th February 1954, by eurasian_david

 

north point east asia bookstore
north point east asia bookstore , by simtang

 

princess garden restaurant ad china mail page 7 6th august 1954
princess garden restaurant ad china mail page 7 6th august 1954, by eurasian_david

 

1959 wanchai waterfront
1959 wanchai waterfront, by simtang

 

1970s wanchai air view
1970s wanchai air view, by simtang

 

Aerial photo of Central and Sheung Wan 1930s
Aerial photo of Central and Sheung Wan 1930s, by Klaus

 

K. A. Bidmead, The China Mail page 10 12th December 1953
K. A. Bidmead, The China Mail page 10 12th December 1953, by eurasian_david

 

kayamallys the china mail page 3 12th december 1953
kayamallys the china mail page 3 12th december 1953, by eurasian_david

 

Roberts Block 2008
Roberts Block 2008, by Klaus

 

1988 1991 hunghom bay center
1988 1991 hunghom bay center, by simtang

 

1 Queen's Road West
1 Queen's Road West, by Raymond Lo

 

British Army Aid Group reunion dinner, The China Mail page 9 10th October 1953
British Army Aid Group reunion dinner, The China Mail page 9 10th October 1953, by eurasian_david

 

Comet Tank drives by Sweet Garden Restaurant in Kam Tin 1959
Comet Tank drives by Sweet Garden Restaurant in Kam Tin 1959, by Bryan Panter

 

Pok Fu Lam from the Peak 1986
Pok Fu Lam from the Peak 1986, by Klaus

 


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