New on Gwulo: 2023, week 18

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

 

General

• Memories of Broadwood Road in the 1960s / early 70s
  
   

• Thanks to readers who commented on last week's newsletter:

  • Photo of the cobbler: The writing on the wall definitely shows the name of someone surnamed Leung, but the last character isn't very clear. It has been identified as likely either 住, which would translate as Leung's dwelling, or 位, which would be Leung's place marking out the pitch where he worked.
    
     
  • Photo of the hawker on Causeway Road: Octa remembers carrying on the head was a common practice for 'those who delivered lunch sets to offices in Hong Kong central district in the 60s and 70s', and included this photo: 
    

    

• Several readers suggested the 'AH' on the old marker stone on Bonham Road may have stood for "Alice Hospital'. I've taken a closer look and I think we can rule that out.
  
   
• Readers ask:
  • Which coronation was Coronation Terrace in Central (still in existence as a narrow alley) named after?
    
     

  • What was this granite marker stone in the former King's Park in Kowloon for? It has the inscription:  5 F T.  T O 9 0 Y

  • The late Peter Moss had an online library of Hong Kong photos he took in the 1960s. Is it still available?
    
     
  • What was the building on Wyndham Street that was uphill from the Club Germania? It's the light coloured building in background of the photo below.
    

    

    
    
     

  • What event were these ceremonial arches (pai lau) built to celebrate?
    

    

    
    
     

  • Who were the "Attick & Co." who made this brass button, and who were the buttons used by?
    

    

• I'm giving a free talk at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum on Sunday, 28 May. If you know anyone that might be interested, please could you let them know? [Click for details, time, and location]
  
   

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Places

 

• Hong Kong Island
  
  • Alice Memorial Hospital, 77–81 Hollywood Road [1887-1921]
    
     
  • Some of the medical buildings in The London Missionary Society compound on the corner of Bonham Road and Breezy Path:
    • Ho Miu Ling Hospital (1st generation) 何妙齡醫院 [1906-1954]
      
       
    • Ho Miu Ling Hospital (2nd generation) 何妙齡產科醫院 [1954-????]
      
       
    • Nethersole Hospital (1st generation) - 10 Bonham Rd [1893-????]
      
       
    • Nethersole Hospital (2nd generation) - 10 Bonham Rd [1937-????]
      
       
  • Branksome Grande [1976- ]
    
     
  • Koon Ma Terrace, 2-14 Wong Nai Chung Road [????-????]
    
     
• Kowloon
  • Fulmer, Hart Avenue [????-????]
    
     
  • Parkside / Kowloon Junior School / Portuguese Community School / Escola Camoes, Cox's Road [????- ]. Although the building has been updated several times, clear traces of the original Parkside building - now over 100 years old - still survive.
    
     
  • Stockwell Villas, Cameron Road [????-????]
    
     
• New Territories
  • Ngam Tau Sha (aka Target Island) [????- ]
    
     
  • 22 On Lok Mun Street [????-????]
    
     
  • Fire Services Department Fire Services Training School (Pat Heung) [1968-2016]
    
     
  • Tuen Mun Children and Juvenile Home [????- ]
    
     
  • Japanese Pillbox at Wong Chuk Yeung [????- ]
    
     
• Harbour
  • Thomas has been documenting the Water Selling Kiosks around the harbour, that supply fresh water to boats: view as map / list
    
     
• All Hong Kong
  • A list of the locations around Hong Kong used by the Royal Air Force.
    
     

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People

• Organisations
  • Gilman Motors [????-c.1974]
    
     
• Interned in Stanley Camp
  • Arkady Alex KORSHOONOFF [1908-????], policeman
    
     
  • George MILNE [1909-1977], went on to become GM of Dairy Farm after the war
    
     
  • Elizabeth Margaret NANCE (née KENNINGTON, aka Beth) [1917-2013], missionary
    
     
  • Margaret Gertrude WARD (née CRAIG) [1909-????], son James T WARD [1942- ], and husband Cecil Sylvester WARD [1909-2003]. James was born on board the repatriation ship taking American internees home to the USA. A fellow passenger wrote: '... we heard the NYK Line would give him a free pass on any ship the rest of his life.'
    
     
  • Cyril WILLCOX [1905-1983], policeman
    
     
  • T. B. WILSON [????-????], head of American President Line's Hong Kong office
    
     
• Other
  • Feng-yang CHAN (aka Wong Chan Shi / 陳奉揚 / 王陳氏) [1872-1952],  graduated from the Alice Memorial Maternity Hospital, and was one of the first Chinese midwives trained by Dr. Alice Sibree
    
     
  • Gladys Emma DONNITHORNE (née INGRAM) [1891-1977], missionary. Page includes a video of her being interviewed by Alan Whicker in 1972.
    
     
  • Tsuneo HATTORI [????-????], Japanese official in charge of the internment camps in Hong Kong towards the end of the Japanese occupation
    

    

    
    
     

  • Saleh IBRAHIM (aka BAAG No. 130 (?) / BAAG codename 'Shanghai Taipan') [????- ], BAAG
    
     
  • George Samuel LADD (aka BAAG No. 128 (?) / BAAG codename 'Fat boy next door') [1908-2006], BAAG
    
     
  • Lidia MALYSHEFF (née KORSHOONOFF) [????-????], sister of Arkady listed above under Stanley Camp internees
    
     
  • Carmelo M. ORLANDO (aka Father Orlando) [1907-1979]
    
     
  • Joseph Leslie QUIE [????-????], HKVDC
    
     
  • Henry Anthony SOUZA [1921-1975], HKVDC, POW, then later a marksman who represented Hong Kong in the Olympics and the Asian Games
    

    

    

    
    
     

  • Tak Yee YEO (aka BAAG codename 'Vagrant') [????-????], BAAG
    
     

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