What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:
General
- Gwulo talks in York and Edinburgh. I'm planning to give a talk in York and in Edinburgh in September. If you'd like me to send you the details once the dates & venues are confirmed, please reply to this email with YORK or EDINBURGH in the subject line.
- KCR carriages bought from the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) in 1948
- A football match in 1865 HK
- 1928: meeting on plans to build a hostel for women students of Hong Kong University
- Readers ask:
- Yanbo Wang asks if anyone can put him in touch with Roger B. Houghton, "whose work on old Hong Kong and the Canton newspapers, especially A People’s History 1793–1844 from the newspapers, is very relevant to my research."
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
- Shun Fung Ironworks (1st location) [1953-1972]
- Hong Kong Island
- Arizona Bar, North Point [????-????]
- #103 Electric Road, Shophouse Candidate [c.1957- ]
- Kwan Yick Building I, Shek Tong Tsui [1974- ]
- Block 52, Lyemun Barrack Pump House [c.1939- ]
- North Point House [1957-????], laboratory, offices, and staff accommodation for HK Electric
- Urban Services Department Training School, Brick Hill [c.1960-????], used to train the Hawker Control Force
- Yue King Building, Wanchai [1971- ]
- Arizona Bar, North Point [????-????]
- New Territories
- Postbox #110 (George V cypher), Tai Po Road [????- ]
- Shatin Army Camp Officers' Mess [????-????]
- Shun Fung Ironworks (2nd location) [1967-1987]
- SS. Peter and Paul Church, Yuen Long [1958- ]
- Tsung Tsin Mission of Hong Kong Fanling Tsung Kyam Church 崇真會粉嶺崇謙堂 [????- ]
- Wardhaven, Long Harbour [c.1973- ]
- WW2 Japanese Radar Station on Tai Mo Shan (C) [????- ]
- Postbox #110 (George V cypher), Tai Po Road [????- ]
Organisations & 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.)
- The Hong Kong and Singapore Battalion Royal Artillery (HKSRA) [1847-1946]
- Shun Fung Ironworks (信豐鋼鐵廠) [1951-1987]
- James CANTLIE (aka Sir, Dr., 康德黎爵士) [1851-1926]
- Shih Chang HU (aka 胡世昌) [1924-2006], paediatrician
- Andrew / Hoy-Lan LIM (aka 林海瀾校長, Tiger Lim) [1897-1967], educator
- Geoffry Alexander Stafford NORTHCOTE (aka 羅富國) [1881-1948], governor of Hong Kong
- WW2
- Po Tin CHAK (aka 翟寶田醫生) [1922-2021], doctor
- Rebecca CHUNG (née CHAN, aka 鍾陳可慰) [1920-2011], military nurse
- Raymond Eugene Marie DEVAUX [1902-1987]
- Interned in Stanley Camp
- Ralph Stanley Watson PATERSON [1894-1962], in charge of labour teams in camp
- Edward Philip STREATFIELD [????-????], senior banker with HSBC. Imprisoned by the Japanese for sending money into Stanley Camp.
- Ralph Stanley Watson PATERSON [1894-1962], in charge of labour teams in camp
- HKVDC
- Wadim Fedorovitch ASSESSOROW (aka Assessorov) [1900-1953]
- Henry Thomas BUXTON (aka Lieutenant) [1903-1941]
- Chi-ping / Maximo CHENG (aka 鄭治平) [1921-2014]
- Wing Yee CHEUNG (aka Gunner HKVDC #4840 張泳沂) [1910-1941]
- Leslie Wah-Leung CHUNG (aka 鍾華亮 Gunner 4531) [1917-2009]
- Thomas Henry William KING [1905-????]
- Wing Ching KWOK (aka HKVDC Gunner #4317 郭永澄) [1913-1941]
- Wadim Fedorovitch ASSESSOROW (aka Assessorov) [1900-1953]
- Other armed forces
- Walter Charles GILMORE [????-1942]
- Kwong Lau IP (aka Private 葉廣鎏) [1921-1996]
- Kim Fai LI (aka 李劍輝 Sergeant, Royal Artillery (Service Number 5022)) [c.1920-????]
- Walter Charles GILMORE [????-1942]
- Po Tin CHAK (aka 翟寶田醫生) [1922-2021], doctor
Photos
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