New on Gwulo: 2025, week 48

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• What it was like to play golf at Deep Water Bay in 1926
   
• I'm currently adding Joan MACLEOD (née WHITELEY)'s wartime diary to Gwulo. Joan was a nurse, working at Bowen Road Military Hospital until the Japanese moved all the nurses into Stanley Camp. I'm very grateful to Joan's family for sharing it with us.
   
• The 1926 Rainstorm
   
• Memories of growing up in the North Point Estate in the 1970s
   
• Looking for Christmas gifts? If you need a gift for family, friends, or colleagues with a Hong Kong connection, consider Gwulo's books! Here's how to order the original English Volumes 1-5, and the new Chinese translation of Volume 1.
   
• Readers ask for help with:
  • Where in Pokfulam were Farm Lots 16 and 28? They were the site of Dent & Co.'s bungalow.
     
  • Looking for anyone who has a family connection to the A.S. Watson Company, to conduct oral history interviews.
     
  • Where was house #1, named 'Sunnyside', located on Cheung Chau?
     
  • Looking for descendants of William Anderson of Anderson Music. Andie is trying to fulfill a wartime promise that his grandfather made to William.
     
  • Looking for information about the Old Cinnabar Factory in Lei Yue Mun.
     

  • Looking for the location of this c. 1929 photo:
     

    

    
     

  • Any thoughts on what this pennant was used for? It has been suggested it might have some link to the Lady Maurine.

    

    
     

  • Can you add any names to this 1990 photo of HAECO staff?

    

     

  • Can you identify any of the people in this wedding photo, or the location?

    

     

  • What were the names of the buildings in this c. 1888 view of The Peak?
     

    

    
     

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Places

• Hong Kong
  • Junction of Kennedy Road and Garden Road [c.1878- ]
     
• Outlying islands
  • Several contributors have been working on identifying the houses in the European Reservation on Cheung Chau in the early 20th century. Here's a map of the area, with markers for the houses (click on any marker to see a link to the page for the house), and also a thread for discussion of the overall area. Additional photos and information from anyone with a connection to those houses will be gratefully received.
     
  • RTHK Radio Transmission Station, Peng Chau [????- ]
     

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People & Organisations

• Kam Lam CHIU [????-????],  mentioned on the list of 'those Scouts who lost their lives in the defence of Hong Kong'
   
• Horatio DE QUINCEY (aka Horace) [c.1820-1842],  junior infantry officer in the British Army, died at Stanley during the period of the First Opium War
   
• William TIBBS [????-????], in Hong Kong in the 1920s with the Royal Army Service Corps (RASC)
   
• Missionaries:
  • Charles Dixon COUSINS [1875-1959], London Missionary Society
     
  • Herbert DAVIES (aka Bert) [1876-1949], Canton Villages Mission
     
  • Karl Friedrich August GüTZLAFF (aka Charles Gutzlaff) [1803-1851], also an interpreter, and Chinese Secretary of Hong Kong
     
  • John Livingstone MCPHERSON (aka Jack, Mac) [1874-1947], missionary, General Secretary and active member of the YMCA
     
  • Hugo Gustav RODINE [1892-1971]
     
• Stanley Camp internees:
  • Edward Harold SMYTH [c.1881-1955], merchant
     

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