In Part 1, we looked at the slides Ms. Lorraine J. Ford took with her own camera when she visited Hong Kong in May 1960. Today we'll look at the first of two sets of commercially-taken slides that she bought during her visit. There's good news that there are lots more scenes than in Part 1, but also bad news in that time hasn't been kind to the bought slides. Many of them have developed a strong red tint, so when I scan them they look like this:

A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2015.

#10 - Chinese Christian Cemetery, Pokfulam [1882- ] (7,865 views)

Mostly of interest to family-history researchers, this page has a brief history of the cemetery and how to find details of people that were buried there.

A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2014.

#10 - Squatter village below Mount Davis (8,792 views)

This newsletter showed a 1974 photo of shacks on the hillside, and talked about the squatter village they were part of.

60 years ago, Ms. Lorraine J. Ford visited Hong Kong. She signed up for a sight-seeing tour, and captured these scenes on Kodachrome slides.

The view from above

I guess the tour started as most do, with a visit to the Peak. We don't know if she took any photos there, but she did take several scenes as the tour bus drove along Stubbs Road to Happy Valley.

The first of her slides I have shows the view looking out across Wanchai and Causeway Bay.