New on Gwulo: 2025, week 05

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

 

Upcoming events

• Hong Kong - Saturday, 15 February - St Stephen's College Heritage Trail Open Day 2025. I had the chance to visit this Heritage Trail several years ago, and I enjoyed it very much. The school's history is interesting in itself, but also because the school was part of the Stanley Internment Camp during WW2. The school maintains a permanent exhibition about the Camp, with many items donated by ex-internees. Details and booking.
  
   
• London - Saturday, 5 April - David presents the Gwulo's Farewell illustrated talk. I gave this talk to 500+ people over three sold-out evenings last summer, just before leaving Hong Kong. The Friends of East Asia have kindly invited me to give the talk again here in the UK, and they welcome guests to attend. Details and booking.

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General

•  The Japanese pillbox at Diamond Hill has reappeared at a new location, after spending several years in storage.

• Several readers have investigated when the photo of Dent's Fountain spraying water was taken, and 1897 is a strong candidate.

• A useful research resource of civilian internees and some POWs in WW2 Hong Kong: National Archives UK - World War II Nominal Cards

• If you collect old photos of Hong Kong, the Brighton Belle Collectables store on eBay is well worth a visit. I've bought from them several times over the years, and have always been happy with the photos and quick delivery. Last week there was a hiccup when I received a photo that was different from the one I'd ordered. I wrote to let them know, had a reply in six minutes, the tracking number within a few hours, and the correct item arrived the next morning - excellent service!

• A new video about Admiral Chan Chak's wartime escape from Hong Kong

• Readers are looking for any information about ...

  • Elizabeth MOORE [1884-????], born in Hong Kong, she grew up there as an orphan

  • Where was the British Kowloon College located? This was the in the mid 1890s, and it was the predecessor to the Kowloon British School.

  • Who was Arnold, commemorated by a gravestone on the Deepwater Bay Golf Course?

  • What is the story behind the two statues of animals on Bowen Road near the boundary stone?

  • Looking for the missing first episode, 'Detective' of the 1970s BBC TV series 'Hong Kong Beat'

• And two readers ask for help identifying old photos.

  • The first is believed to be from 1930s Hong Kong

    

  • The second one doesn't look like Hong Kong, but could it be one of the treaty ports?

    

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Organisations & People

• Margaret Ann BRADBURY (née TAYLOR) [????-????]
  
   
• Walter William COTTON [1896-1897], infant
  
   
• Cecil Rowland Brook DRUMMOND [1882-1897], naval cadet
  
   
• Harold Walter HEWETT (aka Harry) [c.1892-????], Evelyn Lennox HEWETT (née PATERSON) [1897-1981], and their daughter Shirley Ann HEWETT [c.1934- ], lived at 18 Broadwood Drive before WW2.
  
   
• Owen Herbert MITCHELL [1900-1983]
  
   
• Joseph Whittlesey NOBLE [1862-1949], dentist, and the first person in Hong Kong to own a motor car
  
   
• William Charles OWEN [c.1867-1897], sapper with the Royal Artillery Engineers
  
   
• Susie Nancy LANG (née KOTWALL) [1902-1988]
  
   
• Internees in Stanley Camp:
  • Selwyn Henry LANGSTON [1889-????], merchant
    
     
  • Adolph SALMON [1888-????], merchant, with wife Ethel, and children Sarah Leah, Frieda, Hilda Deane, Dorothy Pearl, Samuel David, and Herbert Clements
    
     
  • Alfred Walter William SALTER [1895-????], engineer
    
     
  • Rosa Winifred WICKETT [1899-????], teacher
    
     
  • Henrietta McLellan WILSON [1879-????], missionary

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Places & Streets

• Hong Kong Island
  
  • Man Chung Terrace, Happy Valley [????-????]
    
     
  • Wing Pit Ting Farewell Pavilion, Pokfulam Road [????-????]
• Kowloon
  • 11 Ho Man Tin Street [????-????]

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