Everything tagged: General

Just wonder whether there are any photos of old taxi and wara-wara in 1950s.

Can anyone help?

Sandy

Has anyone come across photos of the Mercantile Bank Building (7 Queen's Road Central) and Holland House (9 Queen's Road Central)?  Both were demolished in the late 1980s to make way for the present 9 Queen's Road Central building.

It looks as though HKGRO have changed the paths to their files. eg the Started 1916, pg56-76 page links to the 1916 Jurors list at http://sunzi1.lib.hku.hk/hkgro/view/G1916/48531.pdf

But that no longer works. Now the link to the 1916 list is:
http://hkgro.lib.hku.hk/archive/files/5c8ced3e378df0fef5bdb1031bc844f9.pdf

Hello,

I am doing some research on old Hong Kong and would like to get as much information as I can on the following:

1. The Hong Kong Art Club between 1930 and 1940. I am particularly interested in membership names, but also any history.

2. The Victoria Riding School in Hung Hom. I don't think it was in business for very long, maybe sometime between 1932 and 1936?

3. Some history of Credit Foncier D'Extreme Orient on their operation in Hong Kong, particularly from 1930 until they ceased operations. I knew some of the executives in postwar years.

I've been asked by email:

I would be very happy to discover during one or two days some examples of coastal batteries and command posts pillboxes (gin drinker's line ) and perhaps shing mun redoubt.

Is it possible to meet somebody in HK who accepts to show me some examples of theses fortresses I could show him something similar if he comes to France.

Please give me if you can find me a specialist who is motorized with a car (name and phone number and available, with a car ?) and a good precise map of fortresses.

DIY / Self-guided

Hi

I have just come back from Sheung Shu, Hong Kong.  We went with my father who served in the british army in 1960.  It was a very emotional journey for us as he left here 50 years ago. We were unable to establish exactly were Dodwells Ridge Camp was, after going back twice we belive that the hospital was built on it.  I would be very greatfull if anybody can provide me with anymore information or contacts who might of served at the same time.

Regards

Karen 

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.