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Good morning David.

There has been much written about the Taipa based pirates but I am led to believe that there may have been bases located around Hong Kong.

Can you help out.

All the best.

Gary Lixde

Glenealy Junior School was in temporary premises between 1982 and 1989 whilst their school in Hornsey Road was rebuilt.

In 1982 they moved to the old Victoria Primary School in Victoria Barracks. My eldest daughter started Form1 there in 1984 and my youngest daughter a year later.

Hi, 

I am interested in learning more about life pre-WW2 (1930s- mostly directly before the war) for British citizens living in Hong Kong. Anything and everything living areas, racial issues, social activites, employment, education. I understand that much information was lost but I would like to find what I can. I am doing research for an article. 

Thank you 

From time to time we struggle to work out a building's location on Caine Road, because the houses were re-numbered several times. eg look at the thread about Buxey Lodge. It quotes a piece of PRO research that says street numbers changed in 1903, and again "around 1934". Looking at some of the maps we have, we can check the numbers as follows:

Found these passages about 34 Caine Road, but not sure where they go.

1919

"Observations in the Orient : the account of a journey to Catholic mission fields in Japan, Korea, Manchuria, China, Indo-China, and the Philippines"

 

The next morning, Monday, as we docked at the foot of
the beautiful hill city of Hongkong I had the pleasure of meeting
for the first time a priest whom I had long known by correspon
dence, Pere Robert of the Paris Foreign Missions. One of his
assistants, Father Ouillon, was with him and soon we were

Guy Shirra is leading a walk along one of the traditional 'Boulder Trackway' paths that pre-date the arrival of the British. Unfortunately I'll be out of Hong Kong that weekend, but it should be a good walk.

More about the boulder trackways: http://gwulo.com/node/4077

Details of the walk from Guy:

I will be doing a walk over Walk No 1 on Saturday 9 February:

The recent discussion on the locations of the Hung Hom ferry piers here http://gwulo.com/node/14541#comment-23088, here http://gwulo.com/node/14541#comment-23090 and here  http://gwulo.com/node/14541#comment-23091 highlight an apparent lack of consolidated maps or information showing the changes to ferry pier locations and routes over the years. Inevitably over time our memories fade as to where and when familiar things from our youth were located.

Hi Guys,

I am now doing a research and looking for pictures/ Historical Info. about the Canton Bazaar/ Chinese Market in Central.

This research is actually mainly about the evolution of HK markets/ vernacular livings in different generations.  

However, I find fews terms are quite confusing and I can't really tell the historical/ topographical differences among them, they are , 1. Upper Bazaar 2.Middle Bazaar, 3. Lower Bazaar/ Market. 4. Canton Market/ Bazaar.

Does anyone know any books/ references can help answering this? 

Hello David your comments regarding live ordanance & the historical recording of relics is

appreciated.Back in the 60s we were taught that the best way to handle unexplodedn

grenades was dont.Wong nei chong gap& stanley in particular were awash with all sorts of relics&we kept the then bomb squad prety busy.If you have time for acold beer& a chat whe 

way to handle unexploded

grenades was dont.in those days wong nei chong gap w

Hi, I am working on a project looking at Australian/NZer/Canadian/American within the British administration in Hong Kong before WW2 (except those in LegCo and ExeCo). If anyone can suggest any names please let me know, thanks very much!

Many thanks in advance

Caleb