Everything tagged: General

Were there ever any legally operated casinos in Hong Kong? 

Any photos available showing the housing project (3 buildings) by the North Point pier?  Were there any reasons for the demolition of the housing project only to make the site a parking lot? 

Folks,

A group of adult Hong Kong adoptees and I are organising an adoptee reunon in Hong Kong in Sept 2010 (www.caawr.com), so as part of our reunion I would love to understand the story behind the first Hong Kong orphanage, who started it, when and what brought it to past.

Does anyone have anything, any info on the house called Katoomba, located on 22 Magazine Gap Road? I really want to know about it's first owner, and who owns it right now. This house has been in my childhood neighborhood for as long as I can remember. I lived at 17 Magazine Gap Road (also seeking old neighbors) with my family from 1974 - 1989. No. 17 was owned by my family from 1968 to 1990. No. 11 is still being owned by my best friend's family and No. 21 is also being owned by my Great Uncle.

i live in central just off hollywood road and for as long as i've lived here there has been construction working going on. as far as i can see from my window there is no progress over ground, for the past 2 years workers have been installing huge long pipes and rebar deep into the ground.

the site sites between hollywood road, pottinger street, lyndhurst terrace and cochrane street, can anyone tell me what is going on here and what the plans are to construct?

big thanks :)

Does anyone know what has happened to the building located right next to the Peak Tram Station on MacDonnell Rd? It was a biege 3 story OLD western style residential building with a huge backyard and an elevated landing facing the Peak Tram station. The building was shown in several 1970 HK postcards depicting the Peak Tram.

Came across some paintings by Leonard Rosoman, a well regarded painter who created haunting, vivid images. He was an artist attached to the British Navy from 1944 and visited Hong Kong shortly after the war, where he painted some wonderful pictures.

He did at least several of sunken ships in the harbour: http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?uid=66889&sos=5

http://vads.ahds.ac.uk/large.php?uid=66897&sos=6

Annelisec,

If you go to the end of my website www.thehongkonglegacy.com you will find a link to a set of albums of pictures which are captioned and may be of interest to you.

Just checked th link and it is working fine at the moment. Hope you enjoy.

Thanks,

Sean

I bought a t-shirt with the Ice House Street sign on it and started looking for info on the origin of the street's name. I've found two conflicting stories on Wikipedia. Was Ice House Street named for the Dairy Farm ice house built in 1911 on the street that would become Ice House St.? Or, was the Dairy Farm ice house in the present-day Fringe Club on Lower Albert? If it was the latter, why was Ice House Street named that if the ice house wasn't on that street?

Make Way, Make Way the music is just terrific, evocative!

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