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Boele family archives: Hong Kong, family portrait near Lei Yue Mun Pass, 1953

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2019-12-14 14:33

Rob Wesselingh, whose father was manager at Netherlands Harbour Works in Hong Kong, brought me into contact with Wim Boele, who shared several childhood photographs with me. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1953

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Boele family archives: Hong Kong, dredger and Lei Yue Mun Pass, 1953

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2019-12-14 14:32

Rob Wesselingh, whose father was manager at Netherlands Harbour Works in Hong Kong, brought me into contact with Wim Boele, who shared several childhood photographs with me. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1953

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Boele family archives: Hong Kong, Kai Tak Airport, 1971

Submitted by Charles in Shanghai on Sat, 2019-12-14 14:30

Rob Wesselingh, whose father was manager at Netherlands Harbour Works in Hong Kong, brought me into contact with Wim Boele, who shared several childhood photographs with me. <Read more ...>

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1971

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1957 Typhoon Gloria

Submitted by David on Mon, 2019-01-07 13:11

Notes from HK Observatory:

Typhoon Gloria in September moved first to the west-northwest, and then turned northward to cross the coast close to the west of Macau. The Royal Observatory recorded twelve hours of strong winds, fourteen hours of gales, and one hour when winds were mainly hurricane strength with a gust of 101 knots. At Waglan, winds of gale force or higher lasted twenty-one hours with a peak gust of 100 knots. <Read more ...>

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Barometer Card from the Dutch Club showing typhoon Nr. 5 in 1923

Submitted by schultie on Sun, 2017-11-05 23:00

Date picture taken (to nearest decade for older photos):

1923

Card from the barometer in the Dutch Club (Hollandsche Club) of Hong Kong for the period 13 through 20 August 1923 showing the depressure on Saturday August 18th. Written reference on the card (in Dutch) to hurricane power ('orkaankracht') and that the hurricane's centre passed some 10 miles south of the observatory. <Read more ...>

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Typhoon

Submitted by Sjw16 on Mon, 2017-10-16 15:45

Hi my parents were in HK in the mid 50s and my sibling has a vague memory that they, or my mother particularly, may have received an award for helping out in her local area during a typhoon. It is an imperfect memory and we could not find anything among their effects, later, that corroborated the memory. Does anyone know where I might find any info about such things? <Read more ...>