New on Gwulo: 2023, week 42

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
 

General

• Dick Worrall introduces Betsy, his 1953 Morgan sports car that took part in the first Macau Grand Prix:

  

• Memories of the Marine Police in the 1970s
   
• Benjamin Penny has published a copy of a diary written in Hong Kong during 1855-1856, which is available to read online
   
• The 1868 Jurors List is now online, thanks to wingcli2015's work to type it up. You can help put another list online by typing up a page of the 1893 list.
   
• Typhoons:
  • Typhoon Elsie in 1975
     
  • An extract from the book Green Jade describes the powerful typhoon of 1937.
     
  • More typhoons ...
• Readers ask:
  • How were the Trigg family connected to the Trappist monastery on Lantau?
     
  • Where was the address ’21 East Block’ for a soldier with the Royal Engineers in appx 1902?
     
  • Looking for help with searching HK passenger departures in summer 1938
     
  • Who was the pregnant Mrs McDonald who crossed the harbour with the Japanese "Peace Mission" in December 1941?
     
  • How to get lists of Masons in Hong Kong at about the turn of the 19th/20th Century?
     
  • How to best preserve / promote Hong Kong's pillboxes?
     
  • GW has found an excellent view of the Sam Ka Tsuen pier, but what are the two sunken ships in the scene?
     
• An update on how many Stanley Camp internees were first interned in the brothel-hotels around Sheung Wan.
   

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People

• Organisations
  • Star Industrial Co., Ltd [1949- ], manufacturer of plastic items. Has the well-known 'Circle A' logo.
• Photos of Governors
  • Alexander William George Herder GRANTHAM [1899-1978]
     
  • Robert Brown BLACK [1906-1999]
     
  • Crawford Murray MACLEHOSE [1917-2000]
     
• Interned in Stanley Camp
  • Richard John CLOAKE (aka Dick) [c.1910-????], night editor at the SCMP
     
  • Mary Ann Lockerbie DAVIES (née CURRIE) [1905-????], nurse
     
  • Margaret Ann NORTH [????-????], nurse from New Zealand
     
• Other
  • Daphne ARDILLEY (née COOK) [1934- ] and Sally Aspinell NOAD (née GABY) [1935-2007] were both John Olson's great-grandchildren
     
  • Roberto Leo BARKUS [????-????], Draughtsman at the H. K. & Whampoa Dock Co., Ld., HKVDC, POW
     
  • Herbert Lewis Owen DAVIES [1908- ], Royal Army Chaplains' Department. He married Nurse Mary Currie who is mentioned above as interned Stanley Camp.
     
  • Darrell DRAKE [c.1890-1970], formerly a teacher in Shanghai, he was in Hong Kong during the war where he worked on the Hongkong News, an English-language newspaper that was pro-Japanese
     
  • Evert MELCHER [????-????], a Dutch man who married John Olson's youngest daughter
    

    

  • Dorothy NEALE [1912- ], wrote a memoir Green Jade which includes the years 1929-40 that she spent in Hong Kong

 

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Places

• Hong Kong Island
  • Craigengower Cricket Club [1922- ]
     
  • Statue of Sir Henry May in Statue Square [1923-1942]
     
  • Japanese Cave west of Jardine's Burnie [c.1942- ], another wartime tunnel in the slopes below Jardine's Lookout
     
  • Tram termini
    • Causeway Bay Tram Terminus [????- ]
       
    • Happy Valley Tram Terminus (1st Location) [????-????]
       
    • Happy Valley Tram Terminus (2nd Location) [????- ]
       
    • North Point Tram Terminus [1953- ]
       
    • Western Market Tram Terminus [????- ]
• Kowloon
  • Shophouses 6-22 Saigon Street [????-????]
     
  • 2 York Road, Kowloon Tong [c.1929- ], one of the original houses that has survived
• New Territories & Islands
  • "Cathay" Bungalow [????-c.1997], near Tai Po Kau
     
  • Lek Yuen Estate [1975- ]
     
  • Taipo Rural Home and Orphanage / St Christopher's Home, Tai Po [1935-1993]
     

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