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I've just arrived in London, and will be here for a few days before heading out to visit friends & family. I see several subscribers to gwulo.com have UK email addresses, and wondered if anyone would like to meet up for lunch on Friday or Saturday this week?

I know, that's New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, so just about the least likely days anyone is free! But if you are, please get in touch. I'll be checking email, and any comments here, or you can text / call my mobile: +852.9401.5251.

Regards, David

Starting from 21 December 2010, this exhibition will be open to the public from 9:00 a.m. to 5:45 p.m. from Mondays to Fridays (except public holidays) in our Exhibition Hall on 2/F., Hong Kong Public Records Building, 13 Tsui Ping Road, Kwun Tong, Kowloon. Admission is free. click here http://www.grs.gov.hk/ws/online/anti_drug/en/timeline/index.html

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From - Secretary, Sanitary Board

Hi I'm Des Lamble (almost 61 now ) I was serving on HMS Defender in 1967 until 1969.    In the early part of 1968 we arrived in HK and we had a problem, we where only due to be there for about four days, but we broke down, Seawater contamination of the furnis fuel oil feed system and we ended up in Hong Kong for about six weeks. For me it was great to spent this amount of time in HK.

This was at a time when a lot of American war ships where coming to HK to give some of their military R&R from the Vietnam War.

There a set of pages of research done by the Public Records Office entitled "Hong Kong Public Records Office Buildings - Peak"

There are 27 of them, and it is hard to know what is in each page, so I have extracted this list.  Click on the link below and you can then select the correct page number more easily.

I found these in the PRO

Several people have reported problems using the little camera icon to add photos to their text. Main problems are:

• unable to select different sizes of the photo
• if you try to go back to edit your text that shows a photo, the photo just shows as a tiny dot

I've spent some time looking into this, and think I've fixed it.

If you've had this type of problem in the past, please could you try it again and let me know if it's working ok, or if you still experience any problems?

Thanks & regards, David

Some tips to help you get the best answer to your question:

1. Ask here on the website, not by email

So instead of sending me an email with your question, please post it up on the website.

Why? A couple of reasons:

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New Uses for Central's Government Hill:

An Envisioning Charette

10:00am-12:30pm, 11 December 2010 (Sat)

Government Hill, where the current Central Government Offices are, is a heritage site: it has been the seat of the government ever since the earliest days of our city and has retained a low-rise, well-wooded historic landscape for over 160 years.

Rural Building Lot:

Searching sequential lot numbers at the Government Map show new lot numbers in the 500s were assigned to various RBL from earlier maps on the Peak and Island South.  I'm just starting my research:

Hi, can anybody advise who was the architect for the Lido at Repulse Bay?