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For anybody interested I have just put up a new website www.amanfromkarlshamn.com which tells the story of my great grandfather John Olson who arrived in Hong Kong around 1860 and died there in 1918.

A lot of the information has come through the expertise and knowledge of the Gwulo community and I would like to thank you all very much. David has been a tremendous help but those of you who have answered queries I have posted, or indeed posted relevant material, will recognise themselves I hope.

My late grandad Reginald Cresser was in RAF and my mum and brothers lived here from 1959-1963 at 18 peacock road happy valley names she can recall are DR Hunt and ( paddy) nickname real name can't remember paddy robinson we would love to hear from anyone who can swap memories my mum sadi they all had a great time there she was 8yrs old at the time my grandparents are sadly gone but often said they loved their time here. Thanks tasha

I think so!

I've been trying a few changes over the last few weeks to make the site faster, but it's still running too slowly.

Change is afoot

The next round of changes will mostly affect visitors who aren't logged in. I'll replace the "What's new" block on the left of the screen with something that takes less computer power to build. It will also allow me to use more caching, which hopefully will speed things up for all of us.

Hi,

This may be a long shot but here goes. I'm a teacher at HK Academy in Kennedy Town. Next year our school is moving to Sai Kung and in an effort to prepare students for the transition we'd like to integrate a field trip to Sai Kung into our next 'unit of inquiry' about global issues. Given your unique knowledge of HK we were wondering if you might be able to help us look at Sai Kung from this perspective.

I'm not sure which global issue we might look at but perhaps "preservation of culture identity" or something related an environmental issues might work. 

Hi,

Just thought I’d let you know that hundreds of old photos, many of Hong Kong are now available for FREE from the UK National Archives on their Flickr website (link below).  Please do pass this on to anyone else who might be interested, a wonderful resource with some rare images.

The National Archives puts hundreds of 19th-century photographs of Asia online as part of Asia through a lens project.

I'll be giving a couple of talks in the next few weeks, and you're welcome to attend. The format is the same for each - I'll bring along my PC with a selection of scanned old photos, project them onto a big screen, and talk about the stories behind each photo.

Wednesday, 26 September

I'll be speaking to the OMRS (Orders and Medals Research Society):

Hi Everybody,

I just joined this site because of the fascinating post on Carrian entitled "A chapter of scandals, and the rise of the 1997 issue". Since I was quite young at the time, I don't know much about this saga. After having done some research, I would like to ask:

1. Does anyone know where to get any copies of the following books on Carrian Saga or willing to sell/share:

(a) The Carrian Files by Philip Bowring;

(b) Carrian: Robed Men of Justice by Hector Lee (cd only);

A nice friendly chap gave me this link today. Thought it was quite interesting, especially the pics of Mui Wo that show the background in pretty good detail.

http://global-mariner.com/index111ChineseJunks3.html

Sharon Oddie Brown, a Canadian who is a direct descendant of the SISTER of Sir Thomas Jackson of HSBC fame (his statue is the only one in Statue Square in Central) will be visiting Hong Kong 15-24 November 2012.  She is writing a book on the life and times of her famous relative, where he lived on the Peak, where his wife played tennis, how he lived, what his family was like. Her personal archives contain much of Jackson's personal letters and memorabilia.  Her research to date can be found at www.thesilverbowl.com.

I've been looking through some of the "Alterations in house numbers" lists in the HJGRO. This one from 1936 is for King's Road, and as well as house numbers it also gives some useful information about what was along that section of the road. here are some that caught my eye (click here for the full document):