New on Gwulo: 2025, week 05

Submitted by David on

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

 

Organisations & People

There have been some great stories added these last two weeks:

  • The epic is the almost 500-page Mum's diaries by Jon Rollins. As the name suggests, it is based on diary entries written by his mother, Phyllis Lang, in Hong Kong, Macau, and finally England, during the years 1941-46. When it starts she is aged 19, and studying at Hong Kong University, so we get a very different view of life in wartime Hong Kong than we've seen in previous diaries. If you had family members in Hong Kong at that time, you might want to start with the Index of Names to see if they are mentioned.

     
  • February 1944 saw American pilot Donald Kerr shot down over Kai Tak airfield. His journal of the dogfight, parachuting to the ground, and the long escape to free China makes fascinating reading.

     
  • Chandru Vaswani writes about his father, Assudamal Hashmatrai VASWANI [1899-1949]. Chandru knows his father was arrested, tortured, and imprisoned by the Japanese during WW2, and is hoping to find out more about why that happened. We've been able to add some details, but any extra information will be gratefully received.

     
  • Moving post-war, Martin Reynolds has posted his mother Shirley Gillard's impressions of visits to Repulse Bay, Fanling, a Japanese circus, etc., after she came out to HK in 1956 as a young teacher with the Army School at Murray Barracks.

     
  • Stuart Braga continues his series of biographies of the thirteen Braga siblings with a page for Paul BRAGA [1910-1989], businessman and fine arts collector.

Other people:


 

General


 

Places & Streets


 

Photos

 

Lamma near Lamma Power Station Beach December 1974, by raymondbates

 

Lamma Hung Shing Yeh beach December 1974, by raymondbates

 

Rennies Mill November 1974, by raymondbates

 

Memorial stone of Sir Lindsay Tasman Ride, by HCIIL

 

1960s Lugard Road Walk, by moddsey

 

Ocean Terminal hot air balloon at the car park, by IDJ

 

Raoul Bigazzi Hong Kong Sunday Herald Hong Kong Shanghai Bank Supplement page 2 6th October 1935, by eurasian_david

 

Kai Tak airport passenger terminal parking apron reclamation works including public traffic tunnel under the airport, by IDJ

 

14 Oct 1936 Group photo with KCR Taipo Belle parlour railcar arrived at Tai Sha Tou Station, by cwyip911

 

Boats in Hong Kong harbor, 1972, by J Folkers

 

Cameron Road in Hong Kong 1972., by J Folkers

 

White Parrot Lost The China Mail page 1 24th January 1906, by eurasian_david

 

1st Hong Kong Scout Troop, ca1925, by Stuart Braga

 

Olive Braga with three of her children., by Stuart Braga

 

59 Bisney Rd, Pokfulam jpg, by Stuart Braga

 

Palace Hotel - Seamens Strike 1922, by Chinarail

 

1922 - Hong Kong Chinese Seamen's Union Headquarters, by essarem

 

LaSalle Road Flat, by mike

 

Jardines Airways Cargo Staff, by mike

 

Convention Centre construction-001, by IDJ

 

Convention & Exhibition centre roof construction 1997, by IDJ

 

Kowloon penisula-aerial-23 10 1959, by IDJ

 

Central District-aerial-23 10 1959, by IDJ

 

Wanchai waterfront-Happy Valley-Causeway Bay-aerial-23 10 1959, by IDJ

 

Bruce Lee in Kowloon Tsai, by philk

 

1953 - Lin Fa Kung Temple, by essarem

 

Erik Nelson at Kai Tack airport, by IDJ

 

roasted food tea restaurant on Peel Street, by hkspace_wl

 

Wedding of John Braga and Louie Ashton, by Stuart Braga

 

Willison's Circus Last Three Nights The China Mail page 2 18th February 1897, by eurasian_david

 

1889 Victoria College, Aberdeen Street, by moddsey

 

Post Office ( with Sign) and Clock Tower, by annelisec

 

1930s Lock Rd (Looking North), by moddsey

 

Ocean Terminal under construction circa 1964-65, by IDJ

 

Ocean Terminal construction start of spiral access road for cars to upper decks, by IDJ

 

Ocean Terminal spiral ramp entrances to car parking decks, by IDJ

 

Colonial Office memo concerning John Braga's memorandum, "Anti-British feeling in China", 17 April 1946, by Stuart Braga

 


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Hi David. I am in the process of finally getting my book published. It is called "Getting to know Dad' and covers the family separation and internment in Santo Tomas Manila, Stanley Camp Hong Kong , YuYuen Rd and Yangtzepoo Camps in Shanghai. I would like to have permission to use a photo on your website of the Kowloon Hotel and Bowen Rd Military hospital. I will keep you informed once it is published. It has been a 30 year project and right up to last year I was still finding information that was important.

Kind regards,

Lorna Loveland nee Southerton