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Formed in 1928 , membership to be half Chinese and half non Chinese, the club was very popular as an alternative to the Hong Kong Club.   It had a box at the Jockey Club at happy Valley and Shatin.  Somehow it seems to have faded away and,at its final venue in Whyndam St,  turned into a restaurant.  Memories of its hey day andstories of its demise would I am sure interest many old hands.   DR Bob Duncan ex Chairman 1986.

I have a selection of colour photos of Hong Kong in the early 1980s. David,please can you tell me how to upload them?

This list of the prisoners of war is provided by Elizabeth Ride. She writes:

It was the official nominal roll compiled by the Japanese "Department for Prisoners of War and Internees", which was surreptitiously copied page by page by Tse, and then re-typed with additional information by BAAG.

You can imagine what it meant to relatives who in some cases had had absolutely no news of their relatives since the fall of Hongkong - even whether they were alive or dead.  One sometimes reads "Suddenly in 1944 we got the news ... ..." - that was thanks to Tse´s bravery.

Greetings to all Gwulo folk

My Brother, Mike Beazley, was with HSBC in HK from 1970 to 1986

He now lives in New Zealand, and is reviving his diaries .... he found an entry where he ws meeting me and my Chinese girlfriend at the Bricklayers Arms in1983,.

My only memory is of a pub in Causeway Bay not far from the Excelsior Hotel, Patterson street ?

can anyone advise ?

There are Bricklayers Arms all round the world if you google it, but not Hong Kong !

Ofcourse 1983 was pre internet days !

Hello,

I found recently a picture of a Hotel called American Hotel here in Hong Kong from the early 1910's.

Does anybody knows where this hotel was located, and have a bit more information about it. Thank you very much

best regards,

Daniel

If anybody is interested I thought I should mention that I am taking The Hong Kong Legacy down from the web very shortly. Unfortunately it has failed to illicit any leads to my Chinese great grandmother who was known as Ching Ah Fung so I see no usefullness in leaving it there. I have posted all the pictures of that time -late 19th and early 20th Century from my family archive - on Gwulo and hope they will be of interest to some.

Sometimes you have a photo that looks fine on your phone / camera / computer, but when you upload it to Gwulo it is turned on its side. (This usually happens with photos taken in portrait- rather than landscape-orientation).

Here's a workaround that has worked for me. I'm using the Chrome Web browser on a PC.

Q. Dieter asks how he can look at the Hong Kong newspapers for 6 August 1888.

A. Start by visiting the Hong Kong Public Library's online newspaper collection:

https://mmis.hkpl.gov.hk/web/guest/old-hk-collection

Type the date you're looking for into their search box. You need to follow their date format, which is:

"YYYY-MM-DD"

So for 6 August 1888 you'll type:

"1888-08-06"

(Make sure you've put double-quotes around the date). Then click the SEARCH button.

Greetinhgs from Canada and an old HK hand,

Some great old photos of Hong Kong from early 1900s, including naval ships, Deep Water Bay, golfing and snipe shooting in Fanling. Album 1 and 3 have photos of Hong Kong. He was a first lieutenant on cruiser Cresser, which was torpedoed in 1914, and commanded HMS Monmouth and HMS Albion on the China station. Also has photos of Chemulpo Bay in Korea, where the Japanese fought the Russians, and other places.