New on Gwulo: 2024, week 47

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

 

General

• More information about the 1924 aerial survey of Hong Kong by the RAF

• 1968 film: catching the car ferry from Central to Jordan

• The final years of the Berlin Foundlings Home

• Einstein's brief visit and words to Hong Kong (1922)

• Why coal had to be stored in a coal shed

• Readers are looking for any information about

  • What was this large ship in Aberdeen Harbour?

  • When was the fence added around the railway sidings north of Mong Kok station?

  • What was the hulk moored off East Point that was shown in the 1909 panorama?

  • Can anyone add photos of these old villas in On Lok Tsuen?
    
     

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Organisations & People

• Shatin Babies' Home [1953-1966]
  
   
• Bibi ALARAKIA
  
   
• Annie Skau BERNTSEN (aka Sister Annie) [1911-1992], missionary nurse
  
   
• Walter John BUSH [1882-1968], soldier in the Royal Garrison Artillery
  
   
• Ethel CHAN (née GROCE, aka The Boat Lady) [1909-2004], missionary
  
   
• Peter K JENKINS [????-????], missionary doctor
  
   
• David Enoch MORKEN (aka Dave) [1910-2003], missionary
  
   

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Places & Streets

• Hong Kong Island
  
  • Belilios Reformatory / Overflow or Branch prison / Belilios Reformatory for girls [1900-c.1952]
    
     
  • Luk Cheong Laundry [????-????] on Kennedy Road
    
     
  • 30 Po Shan Road [????-2011]
    
     
• Kowloon
  • Coal Sheds on M.L. 35 in Kowloon [????-????]
    
     
  • United Christian Hospital [1973- ]
    
     
• New Territories & Outlying Islands
  • Haven of Hope Sanatorium and Hospital [1955- ]
    
     
  • Kai Kung Leng, the hill that dominates the north side of Shek Kong / Pat Heung.
    
     
  • On Lok Tsuen
    • Gei Yuen / Ji Yuan (機園) [c.1955-1984]
      
       
    • Geng Wu Villa (鏡湖別墅) / Mirror Lake Villa [1920-1992]
      
       
    • Hong Yuen (康園) [1950-1989]
      
       
    • Lai Yue Hing Tong (賴餘馨堂) / Fanling Babies Home [1928-1992]
      
       
    • Li Garden (李園) [1920-1976]
      
       
    • 22 On Lok Mun Street [1925-????]
      
       
    • Pun Luk Yuen (本立園)  [c.1920-1989]
      
       
    • Sai Ho Villa (西河别墅) [1920-1985]
      
       
    • Sui Sing Shu Sut (瑞勝書室) [c.1920-1989]
      
       

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