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Hello everyone,
Can anyone guide me to a source of information on gunpowder trade around HK 1850s and before ?
Are there any newspapers available for this time period?
Tracing John Peter Morgan or similar name, 1850s and before, connected with spice trade, sailing, shipping.
thank you,
isioux
The route is a favourite of mine - I've lived near Mount Davis for over 20 years, and walk this route once or twice a week. So after 1,000+ walks spent looking at things along the way and thinking "I wonder why that's like that...?", it seemed a good idea to share some of the answers!
The 1905 map of HK N. shore was interesting. In the map near No.3 Police station and the reservoir on Kennedy Rd. is blanked.
If my memory is still correct my father did mention our family home was at Kennedy Rd. around that area-------the name of the estate was Baidu Fakir (not sure of the spelling). That would have been around the 1910s-1930s.
It was owned by the surname el Arculli. He was the founder of a co. called Arculli's Brothers, they are the compardore to supply provisions for the Indian troops with the British army in HK .
You can listen to the latest episode of RTHK's 'Hong Kong Heritage' program at: http://programme.rthk.hk/channel/radio/programme.php?name=radio3/hongko…
Presenter Annemarie Evans starts by chatting with me about the wartime diaries project here on Gwulo.
A copy of the original is available at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1934/903.pdf
Excerpts:
Appendix Q,.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE YEAR 1934.
http://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/2054842/…
They did a nice cover story titled 'the 18 days of Black Christmas' in this week's edition of the post magazine. It featured a choronological account of the invasion plus some extracts from the soldier's diaries from multiple sources. Wonder if everything is already in the Gwulo collections?
I have just been watching a documentary about Pearl Harbor. (Channel 4 8.00 10th December)In this it was stated very firmly that Churchill and several other leaders in America knew about the plans to attack Pearl from intercepted Japanese communications. Does this mean that they were also aware of the plans to attack HK? Did the authorities in HK know the attack was going to take place on 8.12.? Could there have been a better defence if there had been more personal?
Any ideas or information?
Alison.
This is the last of site developments to work on in 2016. We already have a way to note Places that are shown in photos, but that is only available to the person who uploaded the photo. This change makes it available to anyone logged in to Gwulo, and extends the feature to work with Person pages too.
The work is still in progress, so it doesn't look very polished yet, but should be safe to start using.
How it works
Hi All,
I am researching the British community in Hong Kong between 1980 and 2012 for a History PhD. The project looks to collect the recollections of any British person who lived in the territory during this period on a range of subjects including: reasons for going to HK, occupation whilst there, living arrangements, memories of social life, recollections of the handover, reasons for leaving (if you did)!