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Hello!

It's a great place over here thanks to all your efforts.

Anybody might have older copies of HK $ directory yearbook, especially from 1950s to 1970s?

I am researching several local banks and it's staff lists. .. if someone willing to help if you own books or may be interested to collaborate for some fee to get needed pages scanned at HKU library, it will be a great support. 

Thanks in advance.

Mike

Please take a moment to consider signing this petition to save some Hong Kong WWII history. 

The link below is to a petition addressed to the LCSD to save Pillbox 16 & 17 near and on Repulse Bay. My reasons for choosing these two pillboxes specifically is because they are in areas where there are a lot of tourists, and are easily accessible for a large number of people, so it makes sense for the LCSD to invest a small amount of money into them to keep them alive as educational pieces for the Hong Kong public.

Please help to mobilize people for this public forum: http://en.poundlane.hk/consultation.php

Hi there,

I'm posting here to ask if anyone knows of the whereabouts of Mary & John Gale whom lived in Stewart Terrace in the early 60s. They had two sons and Mary's maiden name was Lloyd. She hails from Welling in Kent.

Mary was a good friend of my Mum whom is about to turn 80 next month.

She's been trying to find Mary for many years after they lost touch in the mid-60s & it would be wonderful if I could help reunite them..

I have tried the HR department at Jardine Matheson but their records don't go back that far unfortunately.

I am doing a project about a family named Yang, and I'm looking for any information at all about them or their company. This is what I have been told by their son, who moved to Norway in 1960:

I have been told about feral rabbits,and peacocks,on The Peak around the 1960s,at Little Peak School and Matilda Hospital.

Does anyone know more?

A week or two ago I launched my new book, 'Jack Jones, A True Friend to China' at a meeting of the Royal Asiatic Society at the Helena May.  This is the story of the Friends Ambulance Unit 'China Convoy' and how it distributed medical aid in China throughout the nineteen forties, as told in the FAU newsletter writings of Jack Jones, its transport director.  Jack was later to write a world best selling 'Suzie Wong' story called, 'A Woman of Bangkok, beating Richard Mason to publication by just one year.

I've updated Places so that their dates of completion and demolition are automatically added in to the title. It works the same way it does on a Person page. eg see the "[1927- ]" automatically added to this Place's title: http://gwulo.com/peninsula-hotel

It should help in a couple of ways:

My fatherw as based at HMS Tamar during teh Korean War, he got polio wnd was assigne dto the Navy Station instead of going to Korea. He was a Lieutenant RNVR George William Maycock. My elder brother Nicholas was born there in 1953 an dhe had quarters on the Peak.

He made reference to an attack on a Patrol Boat by Chinese pirates who slaughtered the crew but I can only find reference to the ML1323 taht was sheleld by Chinese forces. Can anyone enlighten me as to the date, location and casualties involved please.

Many thanks

Can anyone tell me more about the ruins half way up the hillside opposite what used to be Mount Austin Mansions, above the playground. What were they? And are they still there?