New on Gwulo: 2024, week 52

Merry Christmas to Gwulo's readers ...

(Here are more photos of Christmas celebrations in Hong Kong over the years.)

Now on to what's new and updated on the Gwulo website - Gwulo's contributors have been busy!
 

General

• Gwulo helps Michele learn more about her late grandfather's pharmacy, 中大

• The government launch, Sir Cecil Clementi

• In the recent video about elephants being unloaded I said they were in Hong Kong with a circus. Moddsey has found another possible explanation, that the elephants were just being shipped through Hong Kong and changing ships here.

• Gwulo's books are now available to order in the U.K. 

• The 1943 Preliminary British Repatriation List is a document prepared by the Japanese, listing people to be repatriated from Stanley Camp and why they were chosen. The repatriation never went ahead.

• THE HONG-KONG FUNICULAR RAILWAY - an 1887 article about the Peak Tram.

• Horses in Hong Kong.

• HCIIL has uploaded several stereoview cards. There's an example below and you can see many more here.

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• Alan has been identifying signatures from the Day Joyce sheet which Ms Day Joyce embroidered during internment in wartime Hong Kong. There's an example below, and you can see the others here.

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• Readers are looking for any information about ...

  • How big are the original prints in the old panoramas, and what resolution should they be scanned at?

  • Was Father Augustine Placzek banished as a "war enemy" at the beginning of WW1?

  • Were police dogs used in Hong Kong before WW2?

  • Which building was 24 Broadwood Road?

  • Was the Ching Tak Kindergarten on Cheung Chau previously a school for western children?

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Organisations & People

• Atick [????-????], tailors
   
• The BCMS Foundling / Children's Home [c.1924-c.1943]
   
• Staff & students of the school in Stanley Camp
   
• Donald James Neville ANDERSON [1912-1941], magistrate, killed in the fighting in Dec. 1941
   
• Lorenzo BIANCHI (白英奇) (aka Bishop Lawrence Bianchi) [1899-1983], Bishop of Hong Kong
   
• Archie LANG [????- ]
   
• Winifred Anna WAKEMAN (née KINSEY-MORGAN) [????-????]
   
• Internees in Stanley Camp:
  • Lydia Mary ARMOUR [????-????], masseuse with the medical department
     
  • Edna Sabrina ATKINS [1886-c.1990], missionary teacher
     
  • Mary Cecily BARBER (née BEDFORD, aka Molly) [c.1904-????], teacher at DGS
     
  • Olga BATEMAN [1901-1963]
     
  • Mary Noel BAXTER [1898-1992], missionary teacher
     
  • Elinor Mary BEAVIS (aka Jill) [1907-????], teacher
     
  • Colin Keith Henry BEGLEY [c.1900-????], and Edith May BEGLEY (née DOHERTY) [1901-????], Salvation Army missionaries
     
  • Irene May BLANCHETT (aka Maysie) [c.1911-2007]
     
  • Georgina BLANDFORD [c.1883-????], stenographer
     
  • Doris Emily Elizabeth MACPHERSON (née BROOKS, aka Zoe) [1913-2000]
     
  • Charles Lindsay CRAMPTON [c.1890-????], marine engineer, and Clare Marcellina CRAMPTON [c.1886-????]
     
  • Pamela Mavis CROFTON [c.1922- ]
     
  • Angelina CULLEN (née ALLEMAO) [1896-1979], interned with her children
     
  • Guiomar Maria L. DREWERY (née REMEDIOS) [????-????], interned with her children
     
  • Ferdinand Farrant DUCKWORTH [1891-1963], interned with his wife Agnes Campbell DUCKWORTH (née LENNOX) [1892-????] and children
     
  • George Ernest FISHER [c.1927- ]
     
  • Lancelot FORSTER [????-????], professor, in charge of education in Stanley Camp
     
  • George GERRARD [1894-1966]
     
  • Alice Maud GIBSON (née ABLONG) [1882-????]
     
  • Isaac Silas HARDOON [1891-????], clerk. Interned with his wife and children, who are listed on his page
     
  • Margaret HEARSON [c.1912-????], teacher
     
  • Hazel Jeanette JAMES [1929- ]
     
  • Marie Dorothy KAVARANA [????-????], nurse
     
  • Sybil Mary LEIPER (née SWIFT) [1902-????], P.E. teacher
     
  • Mavis Lillian LITTLER (née LUSH) [1914-1998], missionary teacher
     
  • Ethel Hope LOW (née BANKER) [????-????]
     
  • Gladys Mary MACNIDER [c.1911-????]
     
  • Harry Louis MATHER [c.1883-????], retired marine engineer, and his wife Maud Minnie MATHER [c.1894-????]
     
  • Thelma Margaret MILLS [c.1903-????] and Henry William MILLS [c.1893-1967], assistant with the Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. Ltd
     
  • Eileen Vera MONKS [c.1901-????], teacher at DGS
     
  • Lawrence Alfred OLSEN [c.1929- ]
     
  • Joan Mary ORAM [c.1915- ], teacher
     
  • Robert William PARKER [1928- ]
     
  • Beatrice Mary POPE [c.1898-????], missionary teacher
     
  • Cecile Bradbury ROBINSON [c.1894-????], Medical Department
     
  • Florence Mary ROBINSON (née HOPWAR) [1884-1954] and James Porter ROBINSON [1873-1951], Godown Superintendent
     
  • Barbara ROE [????- ]
     
  • Jean SHELDON [c.1899-????]
     
  • Dorothy Mary SHILSTON [c.1900-????], missionary teacher
     
  • Vera Dorothy Alexandra SILCOCKS [1902-1972], missionary teacher
     
  • Edith Alice STUART (née JOHNSTON) [????- ], stenographer, and James Stuart Buchanan Bang STUART [c.1905-????], prison officer
     
  • Edward Cairns THOMAS [1893-????], teacher at DBS
     
  • Norah Marion WENTWORTH [c.1891-????], teacher at DGS
     
  • Wilhelmina E WILLIAMSON [????-????], missionary teacher
     
  • Paul George WILSON [c.1927- ]
     
  • Henry August WITTENBACH [1900-1989] was interned together with his wife, Hannah Gertrude WITTENBACH (née BLANCHETT) [1905-1993], and children
     
  • Sisters
    • Josephine BOLDUC (aka Sister Marie des Victoires) [????-????]
       
    • Anna BOURBEAU (aka Sister Marie du St. Sacrement) [????-????]
       
    • Corinne CREVIER (aka Sister Marie de Georges) [????-????]
       
    • Margaret Mary CUNNINGHAM (aka Sister Henrietta Marie) [1913-1988]
       
    • Claire Rita FUREY (aka Sister Mary Christella) [1908-1996]
       
    • Yvonne GERIN (aka Sister Therese de l’Infant Jesus) [1897-1960]
       
    • Germaine GONTHIER (aka Sister St. Stanislaus of Kostka) [????-1945]
       
    • Dorothy Catherine KANE (aka Sister Joseph Marie) [1905-1995]
       
    • Jeanne MOQUIN (aka Sister St. Jean de l’Eucharistie) [????-????]
       
    • Marion F. SKEHAN (aka Sister Rose Olive) [1908-1972]
• Prisoners Of War
  • Gordon Matthew Reid BENNETT [1911-1989], chaplain of the Royal Scots in Hong Kong
     
  • Frederick Solomon CULLEN (aka Fred) [1889-1945], storekeeper, HKVDC
     
  • Joseph W. DREWERY [????-????], prison warder, HKVDC
• Japanese officials in wartime Hong Kong
  • Kiyotoshi KANAMARU (aka the good Samaritan) [????-????], Army officer
     
  • Asao KANAZAWA (aka 金澤朝雄) [1900-1948], Chief of the Kempeitai
     
  • Masatake TSUTSUMI (aka 堤正威) [1897-????], Commissioner for Civil Affairs 
     

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Places & Streets

• Hong Kong Island
  • Building on corner of Queen's Rd E. & Morrison Hill Road [1902-1976]
     
  • Forbes Street [????- ] in Kennedy Town
     
  • Kingsclere / Glenwood - Caine Road - IL123 [1870-????]
     
  • PWD Offices [1923-c.1945], a short-lived building on Government Hill
     
  • Spring Garden Lane Pier [c.1865-c.1905]
     
  • Temporary buildings along seafront in front of the Central Market construction site [c.1891-c.1895]
     
  • The Peak Tram lower terminus

    • Peak Tram lower terminus (1st generation) [c.1888-c.1934]

    • Peak Tram Lower Terminus (2nd generation) [1936-????]

    • Peak Tram Lower Terminus (3rd generation) [2022- ]

    • Peak Tram Bridge over the Albany Nullah [1888-????]

    • Peak Tram [1888- ]

• Kowloon
  • Walvick Cottage [????-????]
• New Territories & Outlying Islands
  • Green Jade - Tsing Bik Villa (青璧別墅) [1958-1986]
     
  • Wong Tai Temple (黄帝祠) [2003- ], which replaced the Hin Yuen Ancestral Hall (軒轅祖祠) [1925-2000]. Next door stood the Sui Sing Shu Sut (瑞勝書室) [c.1920-1989].
     

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