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Introduction

Municipal wastes were dumped in specially designed areas (tips) over decades. Due to high prices and low availability of land the Government of Hong Kong decided by the end of the 1950’s to investigate the building of municipal waste incinerators. At that time it became evident that the further lifetime of the main tip at Gin Drinkers Bay was limited.

The Friends of the RASHKB have kindly invited me back to present again, and welcome non-members to attend. To reserve your place(s), please send the booking form below to Paul Bolding at the address given below.

I hope to see you there!

Regards, David

Photographs of old Hong Kong and the tales they tell

We'll need:

1. A new field to store the outline
2. A way to enter a new outline and to edit an existing outline
3. new map type that displays outline. (Don't think we'll want it on the general map as it will slow performance)
4. Ideally a click within the outline shows the pop-up, but otherwise rely on marker.

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?