This is where my parents lived before the war. when the Japanese invaded, my father was recruited into the Middlesex Regiment and almost immediately captured by the Japanese. He played a major role during the sinking of the Lisbon Maru, now very well documented in a film made by a Chinese team on the subject. My mother, not knowing what had happened to my father left the house to search for him. She did not know that she would not return. She was interned in the Stanley Camp. After the Japanese surrender and the liberation of Hong Kong, the first thing my mother did was to walk from Stanley to her house. The thought of not knowing what had happened to her dogs haunted her for years. My parents were finally reunited in England and returned to Hong Kong where my mother opened up her ballet school at the Helena May.
Wow, that's some story. Were your parents renting it or they owned it? I believe Eric Moller owned it after the war before selling it to the current owners in the 1950s.
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Fairy Land
Actually, the house fka Fairy Land still exists. Attaching some pictures I took a couple of years back. House is most definitely still standing.
Fairy Land, 2017, by Uncle…
Completion date
I've estimated mid-1937 as the completion date, based on:
zara
This is where my parents lived before the war. when the Japanese invaded, my father was recruited into the Middlesex Regiment and almost immediately captured by the Japanese. He played a major role during the sinking of the Lisbon Maru, now very well documented in a film made by a Chinese team on the subject. My mother, not knowing what had happened to my father left the house to search for him. She did not know that she would not return. She was interned in the Stanley Camp. After the Japanese surrender and the liberation of Hong Kong, the first thing my mother did was to walk from Stanley to her house. The thought of not knowing what had happened to her dogs haunted her for years. My parents were finally reunited in England and returned to Hong Kong where my mother opened up her ballet school at the Helena May.
Wow, that's some story. …
Wow, that's some story. Were your parents renting it or they owned it? I believe Eric Moller owned it after the war before selling it to the current owners in the 1950s.
An application to purchase…
An application to purchase RBL 395 with the dates 18.3.1936 - 21.7.1936 is below, which ties in with the auction date mentioned above, 13 July 1936:
Government Records Service - Archives - Details
https://gwulo.com/media…
https://gwulo.com/media/43889
From the information so far,…
From the information so far, the house built on RBL 395 was first named 'Zara', then 'Bayview', then 'Fairyland'.
Corrections welcome.
It's now called Island Club…
It's now called Island Club. It has its own bus stop.
Zara
I am sure my parents rented it at the time.