New on Gwulo: 2026, week 26

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Early bus services in Kowloon:
  • Kai Tack Motor Bus Company Limited [1923-1933], ran several of the early bus routes in Kowloon
     
  • 1927: New, larger buses from 1 Jan, and no monopoly granted
     
  • 1933: The Kowloon Motor Bus monopoly came into effect 
• Early English Colonial Education in Hong Kong in 19th-Century Hong Kong, and the historical foundation dates of King's College
   
• A Colonial Postbox Miracle ??
   
• Noel Instone Brewer and the Instone Banking Corporation
   
• Hong Kong War and Peace Documentary - Bill Lake
   
• Jury lists of 1840s, earliest 1844
   
• One potato per day - building the road to Sai Kung
   
• Rainstorms on 18 June 1972 and 18 June 2026
   
• Readers ask:
  • Is there any connection between the 'Royden' in Royden Court quarters and Royden House School?
     
  • Who lived in 13 & 14 Po Hing Fong at the time of the landslide disaster in 1925?
     
  • Who are the people in these photos:

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Places

(Click a Place's link below to visit its page - you'll see all the photos we have for it, and can add your memories of the Place to its comments.)

• Kowloon
  • Postbox 302, Ho Man Tin [????- ]
     
  • Yau Ma Tei Jockey Club Polyclinic [1967- ]
• Hong Kong Island
  • Sai Ying Pun Post Office through the years:
    • 1st generation [1914-1964]
       
    • Temporary [c.1964-c.1967]
       
    • 2nd & current generation [1968- ]
  • Sharp S-bend on Queen's Road / Queensway [????-????]
     
  • Southorn Stadium (current version) [c.1988- ]
• New Territories

  • Nam Sang Wai River Crossing, Yuen Long [????- ]

    

  • Rennies Flour Mills [1905-1935]
• Outlying islands
  • Former Ferry Crossing, Tai O [????-1996], replaced by Tai Chung Bridge [1996- ]
     
  • Post Box 66, Cheung Chau [????- ]
     
  • Post Box 124, Cheung Chau [????- ]
     
  • Postbox 149 (Tai O) [????- ]
     
  • Sun Ki Bridge (Tai O) [1979- ]
     

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People

(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.)

• Dorabjee Naorojee MITHAIWALA [c.1832-1904], founder of the Kowloon Ferry Company which became the Star Ferry
   
• Max OXFORD [1905-????], RAF Squadron Leader, took part in the Christmas Day Escape, and revived Kai Tak after WW2
   
• YUEN Ka Tseung (阮嘉祥). Born in Hong Kong, emigrated to Kuala Lumpur. Supporter of Dr SUN Yat Sin.
   
• Hilda Mo-Yin YUEN, born in 1905, one of the first ten female graduates of the University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Medicine
   
• WW2: Interned in Stanley Camp
  • Alys GREAVES (née GENTLE, aka Alice) [1884-????], VAD
     
  • Dorothy KELVIN-STARK [1900-????], VAD
     
  • Margaret Marianne LEE [1912-????], nursing sister
     

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