What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
General
- Index to past journals of the Royal Asiatic Society Hong Kong
- Please can I ask a favour: if you have friends living in the UK who have a Hong Kong connection, please could you let them know about my talk in London on 25 April 2026. When I last checked, the hall was about half full, so I'm hoping we can fill some more seats.
- Piers in Hong Kong
- New MA thesis on the longue durée history of squatter settlements in New Kowloon
- Guide: How to embed a map / list of Places in text on the Gwulo website
- CO 131 as a resource for research into early colonial Hong Kong
- Readers ask:
- Looking for photos of James Tinker Wakefield, who was an early Chief Resettlement Officer in postwar Hong Kong and wrote two important reports on social welfare and squatter resettlement
- Does anyone have any photos or details of the Monument to Indian Soldiers at Ho Man Tin ?
- When was the name Immortalite Road used in the Royal Naval Dockyard?
- How did William Mercer come across uncommon Chinese works in the 19th century?
- Did the 48th Gurkha Infantry Brigade have a specific flag, and if so, what did it look like?
- Looking for the family of Sgt R Holder, who was in Hong Kong with 54 Independent Field Squadron in Hong Kong from 1958-1962. Their amah, now aged 102, hopes to reconnect with the children she helped raise.
- Looking for photos of James Tinker Wakefield, who was an early Chief Resettlement Officer in postwar Hong Kong and wrote two important reports on social welfare and squatter resettlement
Places
- Kowloon
- Block of European Flats known as Peking Buildings, 4-12 Hankow Road [1933-????]
- Hanchung Mansion [1962- ]
- Head Office of HK & Whampoa Dock Co [c.1880-c.1981]
- Block of European Flats known as Peking Buildings, 4-12 Hankow Road [1933-????]
- Hong Kong
- Aberdeen Fish wholesale market [????- ]
- Dr Tang Shi-yi Pharmacy (唐拾義藥廠) [????-????]
- Lamont’s Lane (First Location) [????-c.1950]
- Perfection Place 1-5, I. L. 2040 [????- ]
- Titan / "Hammerhead" crane at Taikoo Dockyard [????-????]
- Aberdeen Fish wholesale market [????- ]
- New Territories
- Old Lei Yue Mun Pier [c.1972- ]
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Tai Tau Naval Rifle Firing Range [c.1905- ]
- Tin Hau Temple, Tuen Mun [????- ]
- Old Lei Yue Mun Pier [c.1972- ]
People & Organisations
(To see other pages on Gwulo that mention them, first click their name below to visit their page, then click their 'What links here' tab.)
- Walter WINTERTON [1909-c.1993], a doctor from Austria. He remained uninterned and continued providing medical services during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong.
- Missionaries
- Doris EKBLAD-OLSON - 許德理 (aka Xu Deli) [1930-2025]
- Annie Mae LINDQUIST (née HALL) [1896-1988]
- Ruth E SUNDQUIST [1919-2005]
- Doris EKBLAD-OLSON - 許德理 (aka Xu Deli) [1930-2025]
- WW2: Armed forces
- Marciano Francisco de Paula BAPTISTA (aka Naneli) [1896-1957], HKVDC, he was a talented artist nicknamed Artista Baptista
- James William THIRLWELL [????-????], HKVDC, clerk
- The following men all fought with the HKVDC, became POWs, and were shipped to Sendai 2B POW camp in Japan:
- Hermilio Maria LARCINA (aka Mimi) [1921-????]
- Roque Maria da SILVA [????-????]
- William Robert Josiah WILKINSON (aka Billy) [1921-????]
- Hermilio Maria LARCINA (aka Mimi) [1921-????]
- Marciano Francisco de Paula BAPTISTA (aka Naneli) [1896-1957], HKVDC, he was a talented artist nicknamed Artista Baptista
- WW2: Stanley Camp internees:
- Robert Enno BUUCK (aka Bobby) [1940-2025]
- Doris Regina Agnes PENGELLY [1905-????]
- Heather Anne Lucy TOMLINSON [1911-????], together with husband Sterling, and daughter Evelyn Joan HATFIELD (née TOMLINSON) [1941-2018]
- Robert Enno BUUCK (aka Bobby) [1940-2025]
Photos
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