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I'm very pleased to have had a talk added in to my schedule (rather last moment) for the Royal Geographic Society HK on Tuesday of this week - 12th March. Entitled Here be Dragons, I'll be talking about some cases from the first decades of policing the New Territories that show different methods and understandings to those used on HK island and in Kowloon. And how the two cultures came to some accommodation of each other. 

Earlier this week, Dan Ip took listeners to RTHK's 清晨爽利 on a guided trip through several of the photos in my latest book, Volume 5 of Old Hong Kong Photos and The tales They tell.

The recording is now online, and starts at 05:40 in Part 2:  https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio5/programme/hellosunrise/episode/938446

I recollect once in 72/73 going to visit for some reason or other, my father who was stationed as part of a very small detachment of RAAF and CSOS chaps who operated out of some very small huts surrounded by antennae in a paddy field out past Yuen Long NT presumably Ping Shan. I don't remember any other bldgs/flagpoles or the like..just some walkways out to the middle of these watery fields and a some small (smaller than Romney Huts) single storey huts in the back of nowhere.

Hi all, I've just discovered (via my family tree research on ancestry) that a relative of mine came to Hong Kong between 1952 and 1954. I can see the boat she arrived and departed on, but nothing else.



Seems her husband was a Sergeant here but I can find no record of him on my usual sources - force war records etc. Is there another research source available, more specific to Hong Kong? 



Thanks in advance.

As a child, I always wondered about what could you purchase in Old Hong Kong. I remember my grandfather telling me that you could purchase a decent sized meal in the 1950s for only 5 cents. Also, in Harry Ching's war diary, he mentions that the price of bread rose to $1.50/pound. 

Hi there

I am a collector of mostly ancient coins and I live in Hong Kong. I was just wondering about the currency that was used in Hong Kong prior to the 1860s?

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