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Here's how to include a photo in a new place, comment, or forum post.

I'm assuming your photo is hosted on another server, and you know the url of the file, eg

http://byfiles.storage.live.com/y1prhjovjDKlK7f4ROWXz3x-URBoPSLzpGbDli3L8mBQ0ntZ0gePDldxEf_QqyVCOGx

If we take a new comment as an example, you'll need to paste a small piece of HTML in the comment you are typing. Don't worry, it's just a simple cut & paste of the following text:

Anonymous users (anyone that isn't logged in) will see a change in the way the site behaves. When they visit www.batgung.com or click any of the 'home' links, the page will not update. The easiest way to spot this is that the banner photo doesn't change.

If you want to force the page to update (eg to update the 'What's new' section on the left), just press the F5 key.

Or log in - then the page updates every time you view it.

Why the change?

I find these building fascinating - harking back to an era that is sadly no more (as per usual with somewhere as 'dynamic' as HK). I get quite excited whenever I see one, sometimes on main thoroughfares, sometimes tucked away in the maze of streets that litter the territory. Perhaps it is their relative scarcity adds to their allure? Either way I have decided to try and document as many of them as possible and, at the inspired suggestion of David, to do this on Gwulo.

This page explains how to upload photos from your computer / iPad / tablet / smartphone to the Gwulo.com website, so other readers can see them.

1. Before we start

Please only upload photos that are your own, or that are in the public domain, or where the copyright has expired. In all other cases, please just provide a link to the photo, rather than uploading the photo and breaking copyright.

2. Log in

If you're already logged in, you can skip this step.

I posted back in April to the forum Finding Old Friends,looking for an old friend from the 1970s,Renee Ballerand.

A posting was made by a person in May informing me that she was a cousin of theirs. I  only found the post yesterday from "Ballerand" and now want to bring things to fruition as I will be in HK next month and wish to meet up. 

If anyone reads this knows Renee Ballerand please go to the forum Finding Old Friends (last posting yesterday August 25) where my contact details and story is located.

Hi I am trying to locate one of my Indian friend in Hong Kong. How can i do tht?

Reader T sent in this photo, pointing out that the modern versions of the old wartime pillboxes are on the local police stations:

If you're writing a comment or adding a new page on Gwulo, the Insert from Media Library button lets you insert a photo into the text:

I am looking for street scenes of Kowloon from the 1950s for use in my documentary film entitled 'Building 173: 1 house, 7 stories, 3 generations'. The film is the tale of an apartment building in downtown Shanghai. Its residents have witnessed three quarters of a century of the most dramatic upheaval in modern chinese history and the film tells their stories.