Everything tagged: General

Previously viewed in the SCMP. Nice photos of 1954 Hong Kong as seen  here

This Saturday, 19 Sep, CityU are holding a book launch and seminar in English on:

Preserving Local Documentary Heritage - Conversations with Special Library Managers and Archivists in Hong Kong

Topics are:

• Power of Archives: Why Hong Kong needs an Archives Law
• Archiving Hong Kong Martial Arts Heritage with Digital Technology
• Collective Memory
• The Powerlessness of Archives or the Loss of Digital Cultural Heritage

It lasts from 10am - 12:15pm. Details and registration at:

What is known of the wharf police, who was in it, it's role  and what is it called now.

Copy of original available online at HKGRO.

Excerpts:

[...]

— Q 21 —    B. O. Work.

In addition, various paths were surfaced, roads formed and rainstorm damages repaired, whilst other works in the nature of maintenance were carried out at Mount Caroline, Kai Lung Wan, Hau Pui Loong, and Kowloon Tong.

Several weeks ago I uploaded an image and never did see it appear in "Whats New". I searched for it in Images & photos and found it there. Did I upload it in the wrong category? I think it is called a node? 22383?

This hasn't happened to me in the past.

Bob

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Introduction

On some pages you'll see a new "Add a connection" block on the right of the screen. Initially it appears on each "Person" page.

It lets you define connections with other pages on the site.  The first types of connections are to show the family relationships between two people, eg:

I have a copy of the book "A Record of the Actions of the Hongkong Volunteer Defence Corps in the Battle for Hong Kong" which I have scanned as a PDF document. It belonged to my father who left Hong Kong in March 1941. The book was given to him by his friend A. M. Remedios. Is there any one interested in getting this document? It is free of charge.

Regards,

Roy Danenberg

In trying to trace a possible relative listed in 1872 at "China Sugar Refinery East Point "- was that part of Jardine Matheson & Co ?

The books I've consulted don't go into this subsidiary company.

Did they ship sugar to Japan an bring back silk?  Does anyone know where to find any records of the ships, the voyages and the Masters?

thank you for your help,  

isioux

Any information on the history of the village and immediate surroundings?

At the moment there's one building that looks like a former dwelling, and nearby a building that looks like some kind of power plant. Big steel door, two large exhaust pipes. A big trailer (the kind of that's normally pulled by a tractor or truck, too big to pull by hand) is parked inside a big banyan tree (i.e. the tree has grown over and through it).