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Here you'll find over 50,000 pages about old Hong Kong to explore, including over 30,000 photos. The content is added by a friendly community of people who enjoy sharing what we know about Hong Kong's history, and you are very welcome to join us.

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Gwulo's 2014 Top Ten

Submitted by David on Wed, 05/27/2020 - 16:14

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.

1960 - Lorraine J. Ford's slides of Hong Kong

Submitted by David on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 20:00

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.

Gwulo's 2013 Top Ten

Submitted by David on Wed, 05/20/2020 - 15:00

A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2013.


 

#10 - Ferry Routes (11,740 views)

IDJ created this page to gather information about Hong Kong's disappearing ferry services. Old maps show the harbour criss-crossed with ferry routes, but the ferries have gone out of business as passengers and vehicles moved to the new tunnels.

Gwulo's 2012 Top Ten

Submitted by David on Wed, 05/13/2020 - 18:00

A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2012.


 

#10 - Duncan George MACPHERSON [1912-1989] (11,896 views)

Duncan began life in a crofters cottage in the Highlands of Scotland, but we meet him much later when he was a policeman in Hong Kong. He spent the Japanese occupation interned in Stanley Camp, where this photo of his wedding was taken: