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Submitted by Aldi on
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Broadwood Road came into being in 1915.  Like the other houses built along Broadwood Road at this time, either bungalows or two-storey, #13 was an  elegant colonial-style house.  There was a path that led down to Broadwood Road.  Because it was built on a ridge it had fine views to the front and rear of the house.  

 

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This symmetrical building doesn’t seem to me to match the somewhat higgledy piggledy architectural design of the building with a turret shown in the earlier photograph that is thought to show 13 Broadwood Road.

This house has a single turret at the back (right) that we can just see.  It has a chimney stack on the left.  The turret and the chimney can be seen in your 1949 pic.  Do you have an alternative number for the house?

OK, yes. The house is very damaged in the photo, isn't it. I'm afraid I couldn't swear to which of the houses in the 1949 aerial photo is no. 13. The name of 13 Broadwood Road was Ridge House. It remained no. 13 from when it was first built till the end of the Rate Book records for "Villages". It disappears from the post-war maps, but is maybe designated 12A in one (or both) of the revised 1970 diagrammatic maps that I have uploaded and now lost in the mêlée.

I'm afraid I've been adding to the mêlée, Jill, with my efforts to create pages for Broadwood Road houses!  I've had to ask for this page to be deleted as I found there was already a number 13 page!  And all the photos I've added come out blurred when you open them, and I've had to email David to apologise and ask him to delete them.  A right royal mêlée!

I realise that your knowledge is much more detailed then mine, jill, so do put me right where I've got it wrong.  You've done some great research on Broadwood Road.

And if you can add some detail to the pages I've created that would be great.

Here's one of the 1970 maps, Jill.  No 13 would seem to be in the same position  as 12A in the 1949 pic.

As this page is going to be deleted, could you tell me are you UK or HK?  I suspect you're retired because you seem to be active in the daytime (UK)  .....

Thanks for the link to the map, Aldi. It's the later of the two that I uploaded. Perhaps I shall be granted a Broadwood Road gallery! I'm in the UK and suspect you may be too. Broadwood Road is really my alma mater if anything is, but I wasn't able to go there until 2004 and thereafter. It's my "special subject" and a vital ingredient of my family history that I have to write up before I snuff it. Good to know that I may have a reader. I've noticed that the photos that I've uploaded to Gwulo from my Mac often come out blurred. Maybe David has a solution for that. I've uploaded quite a few Rate Book pages for Broadwood Road for various dates. You may be able to get information about owners and rental prices from those but I'll have a look tomorrow.

 

 

Thank you for the update Jill.  People say so little about themselves on Gwulo!  I find that frustrating.

Yes I'm UK and retired.  Alas HK is still on my to-do list before I snuff it.  It's a small but important part of my family history.  Mildred Dibden was my aunt and godmother, and finding out about about her and the people she lived with has added enormously to my appreciation of her life.  She is very special to me.

Exploring her life I've been bitten by the Gwulo bug though, it's very addictive!

PS Thank you for adding to my pages.  Were you going to mention the builder?

PPS Good knowledge of Latin! (alma mater).  I love it too.

How interesting to know that Mildred Dibden was your aunt. I'm sure she will be included in the literature on missionaries of the period. I will try and find out.

A propos of the Ridge building project, nos. 8, 9, 10, 13, 14 15, 18, 20 and 21 were all in I.L. 1947 which was bought and developed by C.E. Warren & Co. Ltd., the company responsible for the construction of most of the upper Broadwood Road houses. Although no. 19 belonging to the Reverend Webb Anderson was also in I.L. 1947, I believe the house already existed with a Leighton Hill address before the project began.

I think alma mater is in the O.E.D. but I've used it incorrectly in the English sense. I see that you are a classicist.

Thank you for undertaking re Aunt Mildred.  I sent off an email to Patricia Chiu as per your suggestion.

If I may I will add some of your info on C E Warren to the intros of the pages I created - an addendum!

Jill, I've just remembered, were you going to let me have some contact details for descendants of Harvey Decker?

I think that avenue has been closed off as I haven't heard from Henry Ching since 2019 and David hasn't heard from him either. He used to be a very prompt and informative source. Are there other online sources for Harvey Decker's descendants that you could try?

Re your Aunt Mildred, I was going to send you a couple of titles of Patricia P.K Chiu's publications, but if you have already contacted Dr. Chiu, then that's even better.

Do you mind if I suggest some alterations to the wording of your info on my grandfather? I will find the correct thread.

 

Please do, Jill, we need to get these things right.

What were the Chiu titles you had in mind?

No doubt you will have got the following off the internet as I did:

Christian Women in Chinese Society: The Anglican Story Edited by Wai Ching Angela Wong and Patricia P.K. Chiu Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2018 vi + 274 pp. HK$450.00; US$ 60.00 ISBN 978-988-8455-92-8

Christian Encounters with Chinese Culture: Essays on Anglican and Episcopal History in China

Then there is the following ref that I got from the London Library catalogue (BL catalogue not working at the moment?)

Kater, John L., Anglican and Episcopal history, 2016, Vol.85 (3), p.394-397

In the first section, Edward Yihua Yu's broad study of the Episcopal Church's mission to China and Patricia Chiu's more focused examination of "Female Education and the Early Development of St. Stephen’s Church (1865-

I'm sure I've referred to other publications of Dr Chiu's in the past, but no doubt she can direct you better than me.