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Moddsey has previously given us the link to this useful document. Here's a text version to make it easier to read on the website.

MILITARY INSTALLATIONS CLOSED AREAS (AMENDMENT AND CONSOLIDATION) ORDER.

(Cap. 245, section 10).

(Ordinance No. 59 of 1948).

[17th November, 1950.]

1.    This order may be cited as the Military Installations Closed Areas (Amendment and Consolidation) Order.

2.    The areas and buildings specified in the Schedule hereto are hereby declared to be closed areas.

Kennedy Town to Sai Ying Pun

Idy and Stella have asked us to try and identify the officers in their display photos at the Old Tai Po police station Green Hub; can you help? 

1. two Expats (Donald Burlingham ASP below?)

In science there is a term called data mining – extraction of new informations and interrelations from already existing data. I had the idea of image mining – using images on Gwulo for new (unreported) connections and timelines.

My special interests are buildings on Barker Road, so I chose from Gwulo photos of Victoria Gap and the Peak Tram with Barker Road on them.

Let’s start in 1890. This one was probably taken from Severn Road and shows the Peak Tram and Mount Austin.

Notes from the 'Gwulo in 2016' post:

Upgrade imaging. The software we use to handle images is due for an upgrade, and so is the zooming viewer we use to display them.

Scald:

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 Mary Painter, mlpainter@btinternet.com, then either post a cheque with the form to Mary in advance or pay cash at the door.

I look forward to seeing you next month,

Regards, David

Talk details:  

Photographs of old Hong Kong and the tales they tell:

In, on, under and around Hong Kong harbour

HONG KONG STANLEY REUNION‐GATHERING REPORT – DECEMBER 2015

By Geoff Emerson

Here are my plans for this work. Ideas and feedback welcome. Also if you see a feature that you don't use because you're not sure how it works, let me know and I'll explain more about how and why I use it.

1. Current features that work well

These are the maps I use regularly, and expect to have available after the upgrade.

1.1 Map of all Places. I use this a lot. Its problem is that as the number of Places has grown, it has got very slow to load.

I remembered reading an article some 30 years ago that a Chinese attempted to build and fly a bamboo aeroplane in the pre 1950 era, at Kai Tak.  I tried to search for that article and found the Gwulo.com.  This site has many old Hong Kong photos not found in anywhere else. 

Does anyone remember or know about the attempt of flying a bamboo aeroplan at Kai Tak in the pre 1950 era?

This is an incredible long-shot, but as the years go on, it is one of the last gaps of knowledge about my Hong Kong. Which was the period 1955-1957. When the Royal Navy Hong Kong Flotilla with it's heavily armed wooden Motor Launches patrolled "South" , I remember looking high up, from the sea below, near Stanley, and seeing a red-brick built angled wall, with a large open cement like shute/drain down to the sea. In the folk-lore of the times, and as a teenager sailor, I was told that it was a wall against which the Japanese executed persons during the occupation by firing squad.