New on Gwulo: 2022, week 48

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

 

General

 

• There were lots of interesting conversations at last week's Gwulo lunchtime meet-up. Thanks again to Annelise for arranging it, and to everyone who came along.
  
   
• After the lunch I went up to Wattis Fine Art on Hollywood Road to see the historic maps on display in their 34th annual Mapping of Asia Exhibition. The exhibition is on for a few more weeks yet, and is well worth a visit.
  
   
• Barbara Anslow wrote this 11-page summary of Hong Kong's Coronation Day celebrations for QE2 in 1953. (If you click on the photo to open its page, you can then click the 'Next' on the right edge of the photo to see the next page in the series.) Thanks to Barbara's daughter Kerry for sharing it with us.
  
  

  
  
   

• A look at some of the previous generation of buildings along Caine Road, near the Roman Catholic Cathedral
  
   
• A report of a visit to the Plague Cemetery in 1894
  
   
• Readers ask:
  • Did the State Theatre have an extra seating level above the dress circle?
    
     
  • What was this concrete block in Tai Lam Country Park put there for?
    

    

• Memories of:
  • Living in Kennedy Terrace

 

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Places

 

• Hong Kong
  
   
  • Caine Road
    • Caine / Arbuthnot Mansion [c.1845-c.1925]
      
       
    • Catholic Administration Offices, Caine Road [c.1927-????]
      
       
    • Glenealy Stables [c.1843-c.1880]
      
       
  • Causeway Bay
    • Distillery, East Point (1st generation) [c.1870-c.1880]
      
       
    • Jardine's stone gateway (2nd location) [c.1923-c.1972]
      

      

      • Mint - Causeway Bay [1866-1868]
        
         
  • Other
    • 1,000-foot Pier at Wanchai [1873-c.1883]
      
       
    • "The Astra" cinema, RAF Little Sai Wan [1958-????]
      
       
    • Marker stone for Quarry Bay Inland Lot 11 
      
       
    • Original Quarry Bay School [1926- ]
      
       
    • Royal Naval Dockyard [????-????]
      
       
    • Spring Garden Lane Pier [c.1870-c.1910]
      
       
• Kowloon
  
   
  • Lok Fu Fresh Water Service Reservoir [c.1940- ]
    
     
  • The Kowloon Star Ferry pier over the years:
    • 1st generation [????-????]
      
       
    • 2nd generation [1906-1906]
      
       
    • 3rd generation (which later became the Kowloon Public Pier) [1907-c.1956]
      
       
    • 4th generation [1914-c.1956]
      
       
    • 5th generation (the piers we see today) [1958- ]
• New Territories
  • The Dragon Inn (容龍別墅), 19.5 milestone, Castle Peak Road [1939-1989]
    
     
  • Lok On Pai desalination plant [1975-1991]
    
     
  • Shatin Fire Station [????-????]
    
     
  • Shatin floating restaurant (1st location) [????-????]

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People

 

• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Josef / Jozef / Joszef Abraham ABOSH / ABOSCH [1911-1976]
    
     
• Other
  • Hilary Joan HALE [1936-1995], KGV student and prefect 1953-54
    
     
  • Yee Sang Fat Company, Ladies' & Gent's Furnishers, Tailors & Drapers
    
     

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