New on Gwulo: 2025, week 52

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Over the last few weeks I've been adding a new overlay to Gwulo's maps, showing aerial photos taken by an American plane on 1 Feb 1945. I plan to describe it in more detail in a future video, but it is online now and available for you to explore.
   
• WW2 Japanese seaplane salvaged in Hong Kong in 1950
   
• "A place off the streets" - children's clubs in the 1960s
   
• Early buildings along Calder Path
   
• 1927 Kennedy Road - Alterations in House Numbers on Kennedy Road
   
• HKBU have put a text version of the 1938 Street Index online. It is a great tool for tracking down the location of old buildings and lot numbers.
   
• Readers ask for help with:
  • 'Eileen Van Bergen was my mother's closest friend (see her diaries). Does anyone know what was the cause of Eileen's death?'
     
  • Looking for information about grandfather Lo In Nin and a possible Rothwell family connection
     

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Places

• Kowloon
  • 4 Austin Avenue [????-c.1965]
     
  • 10-10A Austin Avenue [1953- ]
     
  • Chan Bock Hing / Hing Fat Building [1958-c.1975]
     
  • The Kowloon Chamber of Commerce Building (1st generation) [????-1983]
     
  • The Kowloon Chamber of Commerce Chinese Primary School [1956-1984]
     
  • The Kowloon Chamber of Commerce English School [1951-1984]
     
  • 5 Lincoln Road [????-????]
     
  • North Point Government Primary School [1954- ]
     
  • 1-4 Ormsby Villas, 35-41 Granville Road [c.1899-c.1948]
     
  • 41A-41B Granville Road [c.1955-c.1971]
     
  • 41C-41D Granville Road [c.1955-c.1974]
     
  • 43 Granville Road [1954- ]
     
  • Peace Avenue playground [????- ]
     
  • 11 Suffolk Road [????- ]
• Hong Kong
  • 63-69 Caine Road [????-1988]
     
  • Gordon Terrace, Stanley [1964- ]
     
  • Lee Building, 76-86 Kennedy Road [????-c.1982]
     
  • 63 Shek Pai Wan Road, Tin Wan [c.1955- ]
     
  • 3 Sing Woo Crescent [1952- ]
     
  • Union Church (4th generation) [1949-2017]
• New Territories
  • Tai Po Kau headland abandoned house [????- ]
• Outlying islands
  • Hung Shing Temple, Tai O [1746- ]
     

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Organisations

• The Kowloon Chamber of Commerce [1938- ]

People

Many of the people listed below have been added because they are mentioned in one or more of the wartime diaries. To see the diary pages that mention these people, first click their name to visit their page, then click their 'What links here' tab.

• Mary Charles, wife of Bob Charles, mother of Mavis and Greta
   
• Ezekiel Isaac ELLIS [c.1855-1911]
   
• Frederick Cyril GABY (aka Cyril) [1906-2002]
   
• Constance Stella KOTEWALL (née VAN BERGEN) [????- ], married to Laurence Cyril KOTEWALL [????- ]
   
• A H MACKENZIE [????-c.1941]
   
• Hilda VAN BERGEN [c.1902-1966], married to George VAN BERGEN [c.1902-1968]
   
• Missionaries:
  • Ruth Howe HITCHCOCK 何義思 [1892-1984]
     
  • Minnie JAFFRAY (née DONNER) [1871-1946]
     
  • Talmadge Henry ROUSSEAU [????-1951]
• WW2: Armed forces
  • HKRNVR
    • David Pauncefoote LEGGE [????-????], Sub-lieutenant
       
    • Thomas Maurice PARSONS [????-????], Lieutenant
  • HKVDC
    • Felix Maurice ELLIS [1895-1949], Lance Corporal
       
    • Arthur E JOB [????-1941], Private
  • Royal Army Ordnance Corps
    • Robert A MCPHERSON [????-1941], Lieutenant-Col.
  • Royal Army Service Corps
    • G C E CREWE [????-????], Captain
       
    • Ernest Cecil FREDERICKS [????-????], Lieutenant-Col.
       
    • George WHITE [1899-1993], Captain
  • Royal Artillery
    • Leslie DOWNES [????-1941], Lance Sergeant
  • Royal Engineers
    • Donald HOLLIDAY (aka Mickey) [????-1941], Lieutenant
  • Royal Navy
    • Gilbert THUMS (aka Tom) [????-????], Chief Petty Officer
  • Other
    • Andrew SIMPSON [1913-????]
• WW2: Civilian nurses
  • Sarah Gemmell MERRIMAN (née MORRISON, aka Sally) [1896-????]
• WW2: VAD nurses
  • Frances Vera / A. Vera F. SIMPSON (née STROUD, aka Vera) [1906-????]
• WW2: Other Stanley Camp internees:
  • William Richard Kingdon COLLINGS (aka Richard) [1904-2007]
     
  • Gaston Victor Jean Pacros DE MARTIN [1874-1959]
     
  • Maud L ELLIS [1909-????], sister-in-law to fellow Stanley internees Frederick Ezekiel ELLIS [1885-????], Grace O. ELLIS [1893-1979], Leontine ELLIS [c.1894-1942], and Sophie ELLIS [1897-1990]
     
  • George MERRIMAN [1901-1969]
     

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Nina has uploaded a large selection of photos from the 1940s - 1960s. I'll post a few of them here, then please visit her Activity page if you'd like to see the others.

 

Click to see all recently added photos.