Everything tagged: 19th century

Bit of a longshot, but does anyone have any old images of Canton (Guangzhou)? My grandmother was born in Canton in 1940 and lived there until she fled to Hong Kong aged 20. She described her family home and her grandmother's home. The latter in particular sounds amazing! So spacious. Her grandmother (born in the 1880s) had plenty of land and money before the Second Sino-Japanese War, WW2 and communism destroyed their lives. The entire family ended up living in poverty. My Nana watched several family members die of starvation. My Nana was an incredibly sickly child due to starvation.

Interested in any information relating to my great-great grandfather, Andrew Johnston, as above.  He served his apprenticeship in Govan, Scotland, moved to China to work in 1867, subsequently moving to Hong Kong in 1875.  From 1875 - 1881 he was Manager of the West Point Foundry and Superintendent Engineer of the Cosmopolitan Dock Company.  From 1881 to 1886 he was Manager of the Lee Yuen Sugar Refinery (he is mentioned in Kaori Abe's book "Chinese Middlemen..", Routledge 2017).