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I'm a film maker who lived in Hong Kong for 12 years. Now back in Australia, I'm researching a film script about the tumultuous year of 1894 when bubonic plague struck Hong Kong and Yersin/Kitasato isolated the bacillus. Just managed to get a copy of "The Whitewash Brigade" which is a mine of detailed information. I'm particularly interested in any photographs of this period. I'll be back in town in October to spend time in the medical Museum. Other suggestions welcome.

More than 130 video clips can be found on old Hong Kong by searching YouTube with: "michael rogge" + "hong kong". A book of Michael Rogge's photo's of the fifties has been published by Tao Galleries, Hong Kong and available in local bookshops. His photo's may also be found on Flickr. His 13 films of old Hong Kong are now being stored in digitalized form by the major HK museums, Film Archive, University etc. Scenes from the films have also been shown on television.

What is the origin of the street name Reclaimation Street. Was it part of the harbour 100 years ago? Judging from an old map, Nathan Road was only two streets from the harbour. If you look at the north-south streets between Gascoigne Road and Jordan Road in Yau Ma Tei on a modern map, you will see the layouts of those streets are different from the streets to the north and south.  It appeared that the land between Gascoigne Road, Jordan Road, and Nathan Road was there before the reclaimation started.

Yesterday saw the start of a new exhibition in the lobby of the Museum of History. It focuses on the history of Hong Kong's shipbuilding and ship repair yards, and includes photographs from the HUD collection which I believe have not been seen in public before.

There are also film clips and panels explaining the development of the industry.

Well worth a visit, the exhibition runs until October 17th.

I need help again for my research. I've gone as far as I think I could up to now with the Shusters and now something is puzzling me - Fritz Edward Shuster (the POW) was married to Emma Legg(e). All I know from the Legg(e) is what I got in the Carl Smith Collection Card and, what my granmother told me - That Emma's father was Henry Thomas Legg, married to Anne Muey, she had a sister (at least) she was very fond of and that got married and moved to England. According to my grandmother she had a lot of property and was quite well off and all her business were dealt by Ruttonjee...

I found this book on google books and have been devouring it. It is so interesting and, at the same time, so sad..

Has anyone read it?

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Regards, David

vintage photo and video of st. christopher home in tai po

Can anyone advise me how to find out more about Edward Stanley BROOKS, who served with the police force from the 1930s to 1960s.

He also married in Hong Kong about 1950.

Can anyone help?

Many thanks

When I was a boy in Hong Kong in the 1950s, there were some strange empty-looking buildings, which according to my Chinese mother were "hotels" where coffins were stored awaiting repatriation to mainland China. Is this just a story or did these warehouses really exist?