New on Gwulo: 2025, week 42

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• 1871: the occupants of Nos. 76-90 Queen's Road Central
   
• The Sham Shui Po "Cello", made in the POW camp from an old oil drum
   
• Where did Mary Prichard Moline, a missionary in China, spend WW2? She arrived in Hong Kong in 1940, and left China in 1946, but the years between are currently a blank.
   
• The first commerce college in HK began at 28 Caine Road, well before 1920s
   
• c. 1892: Mental Hospital on High Street & surrounding buildings
   
• Malaria Stores around Hong Kong.
   
• The first time Kai Tak saw two Boeing 747s
   
• Hong Kong place names in the 1970s
   
• If you have friends in Scotland or Southwest England who'd enjoy seeing old Hong Kong photos and hearing their stories, I'll be grateful if you can share details of my upcoming talks with them. Bookings have been slow so far, so any help is very welcome! (I'll include links to details on Gwulo and Facebook - please share whichever is easier for you.)
  • Talk in Glasgow on 1 November. Details on Gwulo website or Facebook
     
  • Talk in Exeter on 8 November. Details on Gwulo website or Facebook
     
• Readers are looking for information about:
  • Does anyone remember John Bruce, who did his National Service with the Queen's Own Hussars in Hong Kong from 1955 to 1957. 
     
  • Where in TST was the "Iranee / Irani Bungalow" located?
     
  • How long did the Cornwall Street Substation have the incorrect sign, Cornwall Road Substation?
     
  • Does this lithograph show HMS Alligator?
     

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Places

• Hong Kong
  • Istimewa Restaurant [????-????], one of the first Indonesian Restaurants in Hong Kong.
     
  • Murray Pier (2nd Generation) [1897-1902], and its replacement Murray Pier (3rd generation) [c.1902-c.1955]
     
• Kowloon
  • Former Air Commander's Residence, 1A Cornwall Street [c.1955- ]
     
  • St. George's School [1955-1996]
     
• New Territories
  • Glenthorne, 10 Customs Pass [1958- ]
     
  • Sun Tin Wai Estate [1981- ]
     
• Cheung Chau
  • European House IL52 (was IL58), Cheung Chau. [????- ]
     
  • European House #18, Cheung Chau [????- ]
     

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People & Organisations

• 7th Queen's Own Hussars [????-1958], stationed in Hong Kong in the years 1954-57.
   

• John Alfred FORTUNE [????- ], President and Founder of 2 diving clubs in Hong Kong in the 1950s. Shown on the right below:
   

  

   

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