New on Gwulo: 2026, week 28

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Contributor Pingau has been updating and adding to the records of milestones that used to exist along Hong Kong's main roads
   
• Contributor lausanching has been adding press clippings about Hong Kong's schools from the early 20th century
   
• Origins of the Strong Wind Signal, which was first used in 1950
   
• Readers ask:
  • Does anyone have a photo of Apcar G. Apcar's gravestone at Hong Kong Cemetery, plot 23---/12/01 ?
     
  • Does anyone remember the Uttam children in Royden House School?
     

  • Which year was this photo taken:

    

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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
  • Latrine Adjoining Rickshaw Shelter at Kowloon Point [1917-????]
• Hong Kong Island
  • Beach Mansion (景春別墅) [1965- ]
     
  • Fire Dragon Path [2012- ]
     
  • King's College [1926- ]
     
  • Mobilgas Petrol Station Gloucester Road [c.1953-c.1970]
     
  • Sookunpoo School / Victoria British School [????-????]
     
  • Swiss House (瑞士樓) [1962-2024]
     
  • Yalta, RBL 54, No. 65 The Peak [c.1889-c.1923]
• New Territories
  • Castle Peak 青山 [????- ]
     
  • Lai Chi Chong Public Pier [c.1960- ]
     
  • Lai Chi Wo Public Pier [????- ]
     
  • Ma Liu Shui New Pier [2025- ]
     
  • Sam Mun Tsai Village Pier (2nd Generation) [2025- ]
     
  • Sham Chung Pier [c.1960- ]
     

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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.)

• Walter BOSMAN [1867-1946], brother of Sir Robert Ho Tung
   
• Sir Tsun-nin CHAU (aka 周埈年爵士) [1893-1971], prominent Hong Kong businessman and politician
   
• Sir Charles Kuen KAO (aka 高锟爵士) [1933-2018], received the Nobel prize in Physics for his work on optical fibre communications
   
• Ping-yu LAM (aka 林炳堯) [1911-2000], served on board the British battleship HMS Ramillies during the D-Day landings, and kept a diary of his experiences
   
• Barbara Mei-ling 美玲 YUNG 翁 [1959-1985], actress
   
• WW2: Interned in Stanley Camp
  • Graham Cheyne WATT [1914-????], doctor and missionary
     

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