Everything tagged: 1890s

Merry Christmas to Gwulo's readers ...

(Here are more photos of Christmas celebrations in Hong Kong over the years.)

Now on to what's new and updated on the Gwulo website - Gwulo's contributors have been busy!
 

General

• Gwulo helps Michele learn more about her late grandfather's pharmacy, 中大

• The government launch, Sir Cecil Clementi

• In the recent video about elephants being unloaded I said they were in Hong Kong with a circus. Moddsey has found another possible explanation, that the elephants were just being shipped through Hong Kong and changing ships here.

• Gwulo's books are now available to order in the U.K. 

• The 1943 Preliminary British Repatriation List is a document prepared by the Japanese, listing people to be repatriated from Stanley Camp and why they were chosen. The repatriation never went ahead.

• THE HONG-KONG FUNICULAR RAILWAY - an 1887 article about the Peak Tram.

• Horses in Hong Kong.

• HCIIL has uploaded several stereoview cards. There's an example below and you can see many more here.

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• Alan has been identifying signatures from the Day Joyce sheet which Ms Day Joyce embroidered during internment in wartime Hong Kong. There's an example below, and you can see the others here.

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• Readers are looking for any information about ...

  • How big are the original prints in the old panoramas, and what resolution should they be scanned at?

  • Was Father Augustine Placzek banished as a "war enemy" at the beginning of WW1?

  • Were police dogs used in Hong Kong before WW2?

  • Which building was 24 Broadwood Road?

  • Was the Ching Tak Kindergarten on Cheung Chau previously a school for western children?

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