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Introduction

End of the 1950s to the early 1960s, the Hong Kong Government started a major reclamation project in Kwun Tong which is located in the south-east of the Kowloon Peninsula, opposite to the extended Kai Tak Runway. The main reasons for the development were the need for new industrial sites as well as massive creation of living space (NEW TOWN concept).

Further down south-east, next to Lei Yue Mun, is Yau Tong Bay, also named Kwun Tong Tsai Wan. It was long considered a remote and sparsely populated area. In fact it was up to the early 1950s.

When the british landed in Hong Kong, was there any resistance by the Japanese. I've watched the British Pathe newsreel of the surrender, and it seems there was exchanges of fire with Japanese troops in the vicinity of central

My grandfather was imprisoned on September 3rd 1939 in an internment camp for german civilians who were living in Hong Kong at the time. He writes in his memoir that there were 'over 100' Germans imprisoned there roughly half Jewish.  He was let go with all other Jews and non Nazi party members after approximately one month in the camp. Does anyone have a photo of this camp or the people in it? Or indeed any information about it. Thanks in advance.

Relevant newspaper article uploaded here: https://gwulo.com/media/44548

On the recent post about the Sam Ka Tsuen pier, Stephen Davies noted that it was almost definitely built by local workers, supervised by the Royal Engineers. I've moved the other comments about that topic here, as it is a bigger subject that deserves its own page.

If you can add any more information, please let us know in the comments below.

Hi All,

I am looking for a picture of the water boat Daisy or her sister ship Heather.  They were built for Hammer & Co Singapore circa 1937/8.  Daisy successfully escaped the Fall of Singapore taking a group of 13 or 14 men to the Djambi River mouth where she was scuttled.  The Japanese raised her and used her as a dumb lighter.  Post WW2 she was returned to Hammer & Co.

Any information about Daisy would be very much appreciated.

When I click on "what's new", I'm presented with a bunch of posts with reasonably recent update times - such as https://gwulo.com/media/36095 - but the last post there is dated 2022-04-30, yet in the "what's new" list it was supposedly updated 4 minutes & 3 seconds a little while ago (2023-02-23 19:xx local time).  The better part of a year on is far from new, or so I used to think.

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[2 Mar 2023 Update: It has been decided to cancel the talk, as there will be a national rail strike on 1st April that means many of the people who wanted to attend won't be able to get to the venue. I look forward to seeing you on a future visit. Best regards, David.]

I'm very grateful to the Friends of RASHK for inviting me to give a talk and show a selection of my favourite photos. Non-members are very welcome, so I'm looking forward to meeting Gwulo's readers and contributors who are based in the UK. Booking is required, please see the details below.

Daniela Ahwee has asked if would go to Happy Valley Cemetery to Albert Ahwee's gravestone, and the Happy Valley Racecourse Fire Memorial ( next to Hong Kong Stadium), and lay a nice bouquet of flowers.  She’ll send a photo of his to place next to the flowers.  

It is soon the anniversary of the fire, 26th February 1918, so this year will be the 105th anniversary.

If anyone would like to join in person or by video let me know. 

 

This interview about Gwulo appeared in the Hong Kong Economic Journal on 11 Feb 2023.