Everything tagged: General

Any photos on Seamen's Hospital?

if you were in HKU's chinese department in the 20s, grateful if you live to see this forum. Chances are that your granddad or a distant relative might have taught or studied there, and talked to you about it, or even left a few photos. It should be late twenties or early thirties as the chinese dept only came into existence around 1927 under the effort of Governor Clementi who was himself extremely knowledgeable in chinese.

If you go to http://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/L0055574.html you will find a picture of Queen's Road taken in 1869. It clearly shows a building called the Victoria Exchange and I wonder if anybody has a number in Queen's Road for this building at the time the picture was taken?

About the time this picture was taken my great grandfather, John Olson, was the manager of The National Tavern at what was then 228 Queen's Road, Central. The site has since been renumbered as 338 Queen's Road.

Old photos of policemen show them with a number on their collars. I'm hoping we can use them to help date any photos they appear in.

I'm interested to know:

• Was a given number unique to one policeman, or were they ever re-used?
• Is there any list available that shows when a given number was assigned?

If there's no list, we can work backwards from any photos we know the dates of.

eg HF Siu has identified policeman #218 in this photo from the 1880s:

Here is a link to the first of very many restored stereo images of Old Hong Kong.

http://phereo.com/image/515bc8e85ec3460971000005 

On this website, you can choose your favorite stereo viewing method.

I will keep adding to this first one, as I have several dozens of beautiful old stereo images of Hong Kong. These are scanned from original cards, downloaded from The Library of Congress, and from The Welcome Trust.

Hi Tung,

Fascinating reply. I am very grateful for your interest. I will post some pictures separately which may be of interest to you and others.

Regards,

Sean

A relative of mine, Miss Elsie Laura Beckingsale, was a senior administrrator at the above camp.  I have some photos of the refugees, the huts and some children exercising, forming the chinese character for North Point.  Also I have a superb orange silk banner made for Elsie (Laura) by the refugees thanking her for all her help and given to her when she left the camp to return to England.

Does anyone have any information or pictures of this camp at this particular time. 

I noticed that someone was looking for info on Cheung Chau / Hong Kongin the 1920's.  If they have any questions I may be able tohelp so leve me a mesage :) Mike

Here's a timeline for the history of the Diocesan schools for boys and girls, taken from the girls' school's history page, and a document about the boys' school's history.

The girls' school's history page gives the impression it has existed since the initial foundation in 1860.

80skid asks:

anyone know why wyndham street is so-called - the book - signs of colonial times says its origin is a mystery