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:
People
- Organisations
- Osaka Shosen Kaisha (O.S.K.) [c.1901- ], Japanese shipping line
- 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
- Robert Brown BLACK [1906-1999]
- 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-????]
- Dennis John Morley HICKENBOTTOM (aka Dennis Morley) [1919-2021], Royal Scots, POW, the last survivor of the Lisbon Maru sinking
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
- 119-127 Connaught Road Central [????-????], a terrace of shop houses along the old seafront
- Kowloon
- Hung Hom Estate [1955-1984]
- Methodist College (Kowloon) [1958- ]
- Hung Hom Estate [1955-1984]
Photos
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