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A page on wikipedia (so it must be true) says that Mui Wo(梅窩) used to be called Mei Yu (梅蔚) in the 13th century AD.
Can anyone shed any light on this, please?
Bestest, Andrew
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Bing_of_Song
The land in Shau Kei Wan and Sai Wan Ho (or even more surrounding area) are allocated by using SIL (Shau Kei Wan Inland Lot). It is different from other areas in HK Island i.e. IL (Inland Lot). Anyone know why it comes out especially anyone know the first sale of land of Shau Kei Wan?
That in 1900 LegCo noted that the community of Hong Kong had raised some HKD153,000 - as relief for soldiers and sailors engaged in the Boer War. In a demonstration of Imperial largesse the Council voted the sum of HKD50,000 to the same cause.From Public Funds of course.
Greetings to everyone!
Some time before I have found an useful information on your site, now I'm glad to join your community. Hope you can help me with following:
I need to find Chinese names for some English toponyms nearby Hong Kong and vice versa.
For example, I know that Bias Bay once was 湃亞士灣, now it is 大亞灣.
I don't know the pairs for:
Tsiech Point
Kweilin Island
Reef Island
紅海灣
碣石灣
Hi I am from Wagga Wagga Australia,I am travelling to Hong Kong in December and I believe I am related to Billy my maiden name is Tingle and my grandfathers name was Lawerance but most people called him Harrold,my grandfathervraisedvhisvtwo sons in a town called Young,I would like to try and find out as much as I can to see if we are related thankyou
spot this on facebook. near ice house st, what are the buildings in the picture?
There is a movie called "Lost Romance" made in 1986 with Maggie Cheung and Chow Yun Fat the leading actor and actress. It was shot in a house at Chung Hom Kok as confirmed by Yo Fan, the director. The movie is available online at http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTE3NzQzNzI4.html. I love both the exterior (1:43) and interior (2:51) of the house and I really want to know if it is still here today! Anyone can shed some light on where it is and probably the history/owner of it??
(A scanned copy of the original document is available at HKGRO.)
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— Q 31 — B. O. O. Work.
28. Improvements etc., to Private Streets.—In connection with improvements to private streets, footways under verandahs, balconies, etc., apportionments were made in 352 eases involving 527 separate accounts which totalled $93,953.72.
The full document is available at HKGRO: http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/a1913/204.pdf
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Any information regarding this "industry" would be appreciated. See Chinese Painters posted earlier.
Need some advice as where to look.
Thanks,
Sean