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I am reading a 1960's novel set in HK. Reference is made to the police headquarters in Kowloon on the corner of Salisbury and Canton Rd, which is referred to as T-Lands Police Station. Does anyome have any info on the origin/meaning of this name?
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Bill's memoirs have several sections describing his time in Hong Kong:
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During WW2, my mother was an agent for the Chinese government. Her cover was as a interpreter for the Japanese Military Police in Hong Kong, and she apparently had an alias as "Molly Wong." During the occupation, she ran supplies into POW camps and so on, and at the end of the war received a letter of commendation from the allied forces. All under the name of Molly Wong. Not her real name though. I don't know what other aliases she used.
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I grew up in a squatter area in Kowloon Tong in the 1950s. It was close to the Osborne Barracks and literally next to some RAF quaters. Much of the area was below the ground level of the surrounding area such that it looked very much like what remained of a lake which had dried up. The word "Tong" in Cantonese means 'pond'. I still remember the time when some dredging work was done there for laying some huge water pipes. The trenches were probably more than 10 feet deep. I found lots of shells of cockles in the earth that was dug up.
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my name is Bill Griffiths and I served with the British Army in HK from september 1949 till sept 1952....that is apart from seventeen months where we were sent to Korea for seventeen months.
In those days, Shek Kong was just a big open area at the foot of a mountain range seperating the border between Kowloon and mainland China...
There were no brick or stone buildings...just tents...No electricity, and we had to use oil lamps for our lighting.....No air conditioning of course....and showers with only cold water.
I am writing the sequel to my novel Hangman's Point set in Hong Kong in 1857. From years of research the best I can come up with is some taverns had small glass windows, the church had glass windows , but the private residences did not have glass windows. This is based on drawings, descriptions of wind or strorms blowing the venetians about, etc. I am just a bit puzzled on when glass windows began to appear in the wealthy or even average farang home in early Hong Kong. You have a fine site.
Hello, I wonder if there are many ex Defence Force members still around, and if there is any sort of Museum dedicated to it.
My late wife was a member of the Naval section, and became a sharpshooter with the service rifle, and indeed in 1952 became The Hong Kong Ladies Champion.
Her name then was Nancy Kong. I have many photos of her in uniform, and lots of newspaper cuttings showing the results of the Hong Kong Bisley meetings.
I would be so pleased to hear from anyone who has similar memories
Hello, can you tell me which of the buildings in the photograph of four buildings in the 1860s is the Albany Barracks? Would I be correc t to assume that the 59th Regiment was barracked there? Thank you.
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