Everything tagged: General

My friend is doing a project and is looking for textual evidence of the area (or boundary of the area) that a place name refers to.  For example, what area does the place name "Wan Chai" include or describe?

For now, he is working on three place names -- Wan Chai, Pok Fu Lam and Ngau Tau Kok.  The evidence can be historical or current, but cannot be graphic or based on maps.  If you come across such pieces of evidence, please post them here.  Thank you!

In addition, you can share your opinion about the boundaries of these or any other place names.

In Sydney there are periodic lunches convened under the name of the "Fragrant Harbour" lunch group. They are very informal and usually occur the third Wednesday of the month.The next lunch will be January 21. If there are any old HK hands interested in joining this lunch please let me know. The only requirement is that you have lived and worked in HK during the past few decades.

There will be a lunch on Mon 9th February at Red n Hot ,37 Chalton Street,Camden,NW1 1JD.

Table will be booked for 1pm....any Gwulo followers will be most welcome as David Bellis will be attending.

If you need more details or wish to come along contact mikecussans@btinternet.com

Local heritage group Cache have put together three guided walks around Sai Ying Pun. You get get details of the walks online at the links below, or you can pick up booklets describing the walks from their centre at Annex Block, 36A Western Street.

The three walks are:

1. The Development of Medical Services and Public Health

2. The Development of Missionary Societies and Schools

A rare ticket dating back 1902, the establishment of Hongkong Tramway Electric Company Limited. An interesting point is the corresponding Chinese name indicated "香港電線車公司", differed from that we knew for long time (香港電車電力有限公司, probably a translated name).

Can anyone translate "Keong Wai" for me please? It was the name of a ship that Richard Unsworth commanded  in the late 1890s.

After reading the "... server has been hacked" post, Dave W writes:

Where do we stand?

A lot of people upload photographs to this website.

Does this mean you then claim copyright ownership of them and sell them with the proceeds going into your pocket via PayPal?

Interested and confused.

A couple of days ago I discovered that hackers had gained access to the Gwulo server and website. Since then I've been checking through the site and this is what I've found:

Interesting excerpts from the 60s study here: http://www.hkitalk.net/HKiTalk2/thread-885346-1-1.html

Earlier this year I came to Hong Kong on a research visit. My main interest was in the tumultuous events of the Second World War, but one of the first files I inspected in the Public Records Office was a set of documents related to the more mundane matter of an application to the Hong Kong Government from one of the Colony's leading companies, Lane Crawford, who wanted special treatment in the matter of some land they hoped to acquire for the erection of a new bakery.