New on Gwulo: 2023, week 44

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
 

General

• Thank you to wingcli2015 for typing up the 1869 Jurors List. If you can spare 30-40 minutes, please help put another list online by typing up a page of the 1893 list.
   
• Liz notes that ten heritage properties are currently open to the public as part of the 2023 Heritage Fiesta.
   
• Readers ask:
  • How to find the aircraft registration number for a BOAC 707 that flew London to HK on 9th September 1967?
     
  • Where to get high-resolution copies of the aerial photos of Hong Kong taken by the USAAF in WW2?
     

People

• Organisations
  • Osaka Shosen Kaisha (O.S.K.) [c.1901- ], Japanese shipping line
     
• Two more governors
  • Robert Brown BLACK [1906-1999]
     
  • Christopher Francis PATTEN [1944- ], the last governor of Hong Kong
     
• Other
  • Dennis John Morley HICKENBOTTOM (aka Dennis Morley) [1919-2021], Royal Scots, POW, the last survivor of the Lisbon Maru sinking
     
  • Gertrude LOWDEN [1878-1953], a governess in Hong Kong in the late 1890s & early 1900s.
     
  • Frederick Hardy NEALE (aka Freddie) [c.1901-1987], member of the Wireless Department in Butterfield & Swire
     
  • William Robert WILKINSON [1900-????]

Places

• Hong Kong Island
  • 119-127 Connaught Road Central [????-????], a terrace of shop houses along the old seafront
     
  • Asia Hotel, Connaught Road [????-????]
     
  • Qianhengxing 乾亨行 / Wing Sin Nunnery 永善庵 at 13 Staunton St [1895-????], with a strong link to Sun Yat-Sen.
     
  • Sincere Co., Connaught Road [c.1907-c.1917], one of their early stores
     
• Kowloon
  • Hung Hom Estate [1955-1984]
     
  • Methodist College (Kowloon) [1958- ]
     

Photos
 

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