New on Gwulo: 2025, week 18

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• I've added a new scanned paper map to Gwulo's maps: '1882 Map of North shore, showing locations of sewers & latrines'. (You can also view it as an overlay with markers to see the buildings in that area.)
   
• A bench has been erected on Carlton Hill in Edinburgh in memory of Douglas Ford GC, who was executed by the Japanese in 1943.
   

• Readers have been gathering photos and information about the various P&O headquarters buildings through the years:

  

  • 1st Generation [c.1845-c.1881]
  • 2nd Generation [c.1850-c.1885]
  • 3rd Generation [1887-????]
  • 4th Generation [1924-1961]
  • 5th Generation [c.1965-c.1980]
     
• Readers ask:
  • If you remember the British military building that used to stand on Homantin Hill Road, Simon911 has a couple of questions for you.
     
  • Looking for information about the attack by the Japanese army on Lyemun Barracks, and what happened to the men in the Royal Artillery there who became POWs.
     

• Can you identify any of the people in this photo? (Click 'Zoom' to see a larger copy with more detail.)

  

   

• Readers would like to contact:
  • Willy Freeman, Bermuda
     
  • Jim Terry, Blarney, County Cork

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Places & Streets

• Hong Kong Island
  • Little Flower's School (1st location) [1951-1977] and Our Lady of Lourdes Church (1st location) [1938-????] both stood near today's Pokfulam Gardens.
     
  • 54A Peel Street [????-????], briefly home to Wah Yan College.
     
  • Wanchai Protestant Burial Ground [1841-1889]. It only accepted burials between 1841 and 1845.
     
  • Yamakawa Hotel (aka Nagasaki Joe Hotel) [????-????]
     
• Kowloon
  • British Military Hospital (Kowloon) [c.1967-1996]
     
  • HK Telephone Building / Telephone House, Nathan Road [1949-c.1976]
     
  • Houses on Middle Road next to Blackhead Point [1915-????]
     
  • Former St Joseph's Home for Aged in Ngau Chi Wan [????- ]
     
  • Wong Chuk Hang Estate [1968-2007]
     
• Islands & New Territories
  • HM Prison Chi Ma Wan / Chi Ma Wan Correctional Institution [????- ]
     
  • H.M. Prison (Tai Lam) / Tai Lam Correctional Institution [1958- ]
     
  • Muk Wu Village [????- ]
     
  • PingShan Aerodrome (Proposed) [????-????]
     
  • Tsz Tong Tsuen [????- ]
     
• HighlandPaddyHK has documented several old military sites around Hong Kong:

  • Gin Drinkers Line Direction Slab, PB 125 Entrance [c.1937- ]

    

     

  • Japanese Pillbox (Tai Tam Tuk) [c.1942- ] 

    

     

  • Tai Tam Tuk Bunkers [c.1937- ]

    

      

  • War Department Telephone Cable Marker Stone [c.1937- ] 

    

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People & Organisations

• Valentin Gavrielovitch / Valentin Gabriel BORINEVITCH / BOURNE [1910-1980], fought with the HKVDC as a signalman, then became a POW. 
   
• John Macdonald ELLERY (aka Jack) [1902-1979]
   

• RICHARD “DICK” HUGHES C.B.E. (aka "The Cardinal") [1906-1984], Australian author, journalist, and long-term resident of Hong Kong.

  

  
   

• Edith Frances LOUDWELL [1901-1965], missionary
   
• The Oriental Christian Gracious Light Church [1909- ]. The aim of the original mission was to spread the gospel to the boat people in southern China. In 1997, it moved to its current address on the first floor of 28 Cheung Fat Street, Cheung Sha Wan. 
   

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