Jill writes:
21 Broadwood Road, where Tommy Waller and the Edgars lived, was the last of seven European houses built by my grandfather Charles Warren in the so-called “Ridge Development” of 1915-16. It was set slightly lower than The Towers, - a sort of smaller version and looks as if it had a lovely view. I think it may have been known as "The Cottage" originally.
Mr & Mrs SL Hidden are named top of the list of friends attending the June 1923 funeral of my grandfather, Charles Warren, but neither I nor my generation of Warrens ever heard them mentioned. As "Hidden" is a word as well as a name, it's not easy to search for Mr Hidden. He appears in the Jurors List of 1923 as Assistant in John Manners & Co. The Hiddens lived in Broadwood Road in 1920 when Mr Hidden was working for H. Stephens & Co.
Some of you may already know from my previous posts that I’ve been researching the life in Hong Kong of my grandfather Charles Edward Warren (1872-1923) and his eponymous company C.E. Warren & Co. (1901-1941). He died of pneumonia quite suddenly at his house, The Towers, Broadwood Road, aged 51, when my father was only 14 and at school in England. An obvious source to look for C.E. Warren’s friends and business contacts is the list of mourners and wreath givers at his funeral.
Location is a very rough guess.
Eva Webb Anderson was the wife of the Wesleyan missionary doctor, Reverend W.J. Webb Anderson. Carl Smith records their marriage at the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Hong Kong in 1901. I believe the Webb Andersons retired from Fatshan to Hong Kong in 1916 and lived at The Cottage, 19 Broadwood Road until 1923, when they went back to England. I haven't yet been able to check the Ladies' Directories for this period.
The missionary doctor, the Rev. W. J. Webb Anderson M.B., Ch.B was one of the mainstays of the Wesleyan Missionary Church hospital in Fatshan, Canton, where he worked for over twenty years, according to Carl Smith. According to my father’s memory, the Rev Webb Anderson was one of the closest friends of his own father, Charles Edward Warren, who often visited him on the mainland. Webb Anderson's Hong Kong furlough bungalow had originally been in Leighton Hill, but became 19 Broadwood Road when Broadwood Road was created.
This building has been demolished. The street numbers 22 / 23 are taken from a 1986 street map.
The current building at this site Broadwood Park, is number 38.
William and Ellen Whiteley lived at 16 Broadwood Road and were close friends and neighbours to my uncle, Leslie Warren and his family from 1923 onwards. William Whiteley was manager of the company Der A Wing & Co. They were interned in Stanley Camp with their daughter, Joan, a nursing sister. (Information kindly supplied by Tony Banham.)
Any news of them post-Stanley would be welcome.
Jill
This was built on I.L. 2060.
The first mention I found for the lot is a government notice No.270 on 24th July, 1914, ordering the removal of "graves within the boundaries of a certain piece of land situated below Inland Lot No.1911 Wong Nei Chong which is intended to be registed in the Land Office as Inland Lot No. 2060."
Siobhan Bland Daiko writes:
