Everything tagged: General

Flickr photos haven't been showing for several weeks - you could still click through to view them on Flickr, but they didn't show up here.

That should be fixed now.

Regards, David

For those of you who may be collectors of HK historical photographs; what should I expect to pay for an original print by photog himself of an old negative from his 60s photo collection of Hong Kong?  I have my eye on a photo by a fairly well known photographer, who are currently reprinting some of his old work, and I have no idea what to expect in pricing.  Your help much appreciated.

This is a bit random but I am looking for old images/pics of Hong Kong
around 1974-76.

I was living with my ex husband there, and he was in the army and
stationed at Victoria Barracks.

We were living in housing just above the Barracks. We used to walk up
a load of steps to a gate which was the perimeter of the barracks and
led to a main road. (if we got a taxi this road would take us round to

It would appear that driving on the left was the convention in China until  January 1, 1946. Presumably the change was influenced by America advisors on the government in Chungking.

There was probably very few Chinese from Hong Kong who served as pilots in the Royal Air Force during World War 2. The demise of this gentleman was apparently reported in the previous day’s edition of this newspaper which I do not have access to.

It may tell us more?