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Gwulo takes to the airwaves! Annemarie Evans invited me on to her show, Hong Kong Heritage, where we chatted about the late Dan Waters' book collection, sidetracked into hunting & trapping in Hong Kong, then returned to Dan's apartment and its connection to the film Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.
Here is the link to listen to the show:
http://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=164
Here's how to search old newspapers in the Hong Kong Public Library collection for a certain word or phrase:
I was told by a person called James Clements on the Hong Kong Was,Is,And Forever Will Be My Home! Facebook group that in 1991 as a typhoon approached a giant bat was seen over Cheung Chau though some said it was a frigate bird.Does anyone know more?
You might have noticed a small change today:
I am trying to piece together the locations (headquarters) of the Royal Artillery regiments stationed in Hong Kong between 1939 and 1941. My understanding is that:
8th Coast Regiment was stationed at Stanley Fort/Barracks
HK Singapore Royal Artillery Regiment was stationed at Gun Club Barracks
5th AA Regiment was stationed at Lyemun Barracks
12th Coast Regiment - not known.
Can anyone confirm/help with this one ??
Thanks
If you visit a photo page such as http://gwulo.com/atom/15456, you'll notice that you can no longer zoom in to the image.
The zoom viewer is still available, it's just been moved to its own screen. Look above the image and you'll see a button marked "Zoom". Click that to see the zoom viewer again.
This is to solve a problem that has puzzled me for a while. When I search for photos using Google's image search, Gwulo's images rarely appear in the results. It's because the zoom viewer makes our photos invisible to Google.
I'm a journalist working on a story involving abandoned homes and am appealing for information on a house on Lamma.
The aforementioned property is a dilapidated family home in Luk Chau Tsuen, Lamma (on mainland Lamma, not the isle of the same name off the coast).
Photos of the house:
(The full document is available at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1912/174.pdf)
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- P 13 -
A considerable fire occurred on January 10th at Ap Liu, near Sham Shui Po, numerous sheds and huts belonging to and occupied by the villagers being destroyed.
Three houses on Inland Lot 17, Aplichau, were partly destroyed on October 30th and are being re-instated.
Several other fires occurred in the Colony, but none were of large dimensions.
Hello.
I am curious as to whether you have heard or read anything about Western oil
distribution companies such as Socony Vacuum Co. delivering oil products from Hong Kong to
the Chinese resistance to the Japanese occupation in South China ?
This would be around 1939 to 1941, December.
Pete Paget
This report was written by Patrick Abercrombie and was published in 1949. He spent 34 days in HK in the last two months in 1947. The advnaced draft copy was delivered in September 1948 before his heading to Australia. Need more background info of this plan such as information about who were the local professionals assisting him like SO Hill, the Town Planning Officer in the PWD.