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Hello,
I would like some more information on this house, located on St Francis Street 8, in Wanchai.
Is this considered a tong lau ? Do you know the year that it was built?
Attached the terrazzo stairs and tile flooring and brick wall detail.
Any new information is welcome!
The S. S. Loong Sang was a vessel owned by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company. It sank off the Osaka Shosen Kaisha Wharf in 1923 (which later became the Hong Kong and Macau wharf). There is a photo of it sinking in the University of Bristol Special Collections archive. Special Collections, University of Bristol Library (www.hpcbristol.net). Here is a bill of fare for one of meal served on board on 13th October 1901.
Date : Saturday 13 June 2026
Speaker : Dr Patrick Hase
Title : Villages and Market Towns in Hong Kong
Venue : The Allen Room, 1/F, St. Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, London W1D 6AF
Time : 2:30 pm
Date : Saturday 25th April 2026
Speaker : David Bellis, B.E.M., of Gwulo
Title : 1880s – 1940s Hong Kong photos: 70 years of stories to tell
Venue : The Community Hall, G/F, St. Anne’s Church, 55 Dean Street, London W1D 6AF
Time : 2:30 pm
Hi there friends - I collect old maps of Hong Kong and of the region around HK. If anyone wouldn't mind selling their maps that were printed before 1920, I would really appreciate a chance to bid for your maps.
Thank you.
Albert Ng
Today (23rd Jan 2026) is the last day of the festival. The next one would be sometime in 2035.
The festival gained a World record of the biggest temporary structure made of scaffoldings, which is already in the news for quite a while. While wandering the site in December 2025, I overhead a villager explaining to one of his friends that the Tang clan intentionally reserved the huge space for the festival and did not build onto the land.
Checked GeoInfo Map. There are many lot numbers involved so the land is likely owned by mutiple families.
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I've just been in touch with the architecture librarian at HKU Libraries and she endorsed me starting this thread. HKU Library acquired the Frank Fischbeck Collection in 2019, and having spent quite a lot of time looking through these photos, I've found that quite a lot of the metadata is wrong. Wrong dates, wrong locations. I'm by no means a history expert, so I can often tell that a label is wrong but not know how it should be corrected. I'm quite sure that Gwulo's photo sleuths would be brilliant at it.
My grandfather traveled from Hong Kong to San Francisco on a business trip in November/December 1919. From SF he traveled to New York ...I believe by train. From New York he took a Cunard ship, Carmania, to London, arriving in June 1920. He eventually returned to Hong Kong but I have no record of what route he took on his return voyage. I assume he did not return to NY, etc. He must have traveled by ship via the Suez Canal or around Africa. Can any one suggest what his likely route would have been from London to Hong Kong.
There are people in Hong Kong today heading for middle age, whose memories of Kai Tak airport will have faded away or have none at all.
Improbably it has been left to the MTR at its Kai Tak station’s pedestrian subways to leave them in wonder comparing the displays of aviation photographs of early Kai Tack, to the developments in progress above and around them on the airport’s site.
I asked this previously many years ago and got no response.
What or who is/was the origin of the name “Gripps”. No apostrophe.
It is well-known as the name of restaurants in the Hong Kong hotels group.
Appearing regularly in their old adverts and social events reporting.
The presentation infers the name of a person. Given or pseudonym? So, who was Gripp?