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Articles about Kai Tak Airport still appear in magazines. The UK based magazine 'Airliner World', October 2014 edition, has a seven page spread with pictures taken during the late 1970s and early 80s
I came across a photograph of Theatre Lane in Central on the Chinese forum uwants.com which is at the top of the linked web page. I wonder what the brick structure is -- is it some sort of defense works? Was this built by the British before the Battle of Hong Kong, or by the Japanese during the occupation? Were there similar structures in other parts of Hong Kong? Thank you.
I recall reading about a fatal industrial accident in the late 1970s (perhaps 1977 to 1979) involving employees at one of the major oil companies. If memory serves, it happened in a bunker at the main depot.
Where were the depots of the major oil companies located at the time? Does anyone recall this incident? I can't remember if it was a big news item at the time.
I'm researching the RM Detachment of HMS Tamar pre the Battle for Hong Kong, their role in the fighting, as POWs and their postwar rehabilitation.
Any information would be most welcomed and gratefully received.
Many thanks,
Barry Alexander
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Philip writes:
[...] In meantime here is another blog about Captain Andre Kella and his wife Ethel and a bit more on their niece Sheila Haynes who married Pat Cullinan in August 1945. All four were in Stanley Camp.
Andre and Pat were both very ill in camp and were repatriated on Hospital Ship Oxfordshire. Andre died in 1947 and Pat in 1947.
You can read the full story at:
not sure if these appear elsewhere on gwulo, if not they are amazingly high-resolution 360-degree artistic views of the harbour http://lbezone.ust.hk/bib/b538792
Hi there,
What an amazing archive of historic HK on this website!
I was browsing the topic on air-raid precaution tunnels - again, amazed at the wealth of information - though I didn't see the one-and-only I knew when I was in HK, the one on Wong Nai Chung Road, along the huge stone wall next to St. Pauls Primary School? (At the foot of St. Paul's Secondary School). Is that an air-raid shelter of sort? Anyone knows anything about it?
Best,
Zenning
The following article appeared in the South China Morning Post on 30th August:
http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1585762/davids-tunnel-vision…
The article is part of the SCMP's "Spirit of Hong Kong" series. Thank you to Paul Zimmerman of Designing Hong Kong for nominating me, and to Annemarie Evans and May Tse of the SCMP for the writing and photography.