Everything tagged: General

China Mail 30 January 1937

A hat, unaccompanied by its owner, has just made an aerial journey in stages completely round the world. The hat belongs to Mr. A. E. Wickey, a Railway Express employee in St. Louis, USA. It seems that he put his hat aboard an airliner one day with the remark: "As it doesn't look as if I'm ever to be able to travel round the world myself, please take my hat."

The air officials entered into the spirit of things and it was sent on its aerial way with special instructions.

Hong Kong Telegraph 3 February 1930

During the recent motorcycle trial, Messrs Gilman & Co. Ltd arranged for a supply of Findlater's whisky to be available at the A. P. F. Filling Stations enroute. This was served free to those competitors who desired to refresh themselves with the popular stimulant. 

 Colin McEwan's diary entry for 9 Dec 1941 mentions these two places, but I don't recognise the names:

Other four, Teesdale, Holmes, Day and Gardner were to accompany us as far as Half Hour Pass, thence to Nam Fung Tao to collect the remainder of the gear including the radio.

Setting off just at dusk, we made good time down the trail to a point just below Half Hour Pass where we split ways – the others moving off to Nam Fung Tao.

I just saw this and think it’s a very good idea.

I am trying to establish when Lt Gen Sugden visited Macau in 1955.  My father, Lt Col L H Dismore was the British Consul in Macau from 1954 to early 1956, I have many photos of his official visit but cannot establish the exact date - I know it was in the Summer of that year on account of all officials wearing summer uniform. I would also like to know how he arrived. Was it on HMS CARDIGAN BAY, the resident Hong Kong Guardship?

Any help would be much appreciated

Martin Dismore (Son of the above)

I am the granddaughter of a first-generation Chinese immigrant who moved from Hong Kong (Tai Po) to the UK in the mid-60s. I am currently writing a novel about the life of Chinese immigrants in Glasgow from the 1960s onwards. I would love to hear any relevant details/ anecdotes that people have or have knowledge of life during this time period and location. I am trying to get a more rounded picture of Chinese-immigrant life in Scotland in the 60s/70s.

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We will meet at  12:00 noon at the American club in Central, Exchange Square 2, as usual. Come enjoy the view from the 49th floor. Let me know if you’re available

Bring something for Show-and-tell.

I was wondering if anyone had any information (text, pictures?) on a transient visitor to Hong Kong in the 1930s?  I refer to the visit (by ship, I believe) of Wheeler Dryden, the half-brother to the early film star Charlie Chaplin. 

I ask because my late mother had a newspaper cutting with a photo and some text on Wheeler Dryden’s visit as she was photographed along with him. 

I’m not sure in which paper the article appeared, but it was certainly an English Language HK paper.  The period would have been 1933-39.

I've never come across mention of this before - from the 1864 death notice of a man connected with the Naval Dockyard. Looking at the 1866 map here, I can't see where it might be - any ideas, please? The note says: DEATH At West Point Hongkong on the evening of 21st. Mr. John Dowing R. N. Inspector of Machinery afloat (Hongkong). The funeral procession will leave H. M. Dockyard at 4pm today, and proceed by Water to the Cemetery Pier. (Hongkong Daily Press, 22nd February 1864.

Hello!

I am wondering if you or anyone on the gwulo site could help me. I know this is not directly related to Hong Kong but I figure that someone on this site might know of the female British pilots from the 1930’s.

I currently work and live in Beihai (formerly known as Pakhoi): a former Treaty Port in southern China. 

I am writing a book about the people that shaped Pakhoi during the Treaty Period 1870 - 1940.

 I have found a reference locally to a female British aviator landing in Pakhoi in September 1932.