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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.
Does anyone have any working memory or knowledge about the scheme of importing Australian cattle to Lantau Island sometime in the 1950s?
There were a number of drafts of Hong Kong Government volunteers to World War One, similarly from Shanghai.
Noted the mention of the University's Silver Mace in the China Mail dated 29 November 1949.
"Colonel L. G. Bird of Alton, Hampshire, has been asked by the Hong Kong University to search for the University's Silver Mace which disappeared when the Colony fell during the war.
Colonel Bird hoped to trace the silversmith who made the Mace. He added the Mace was made in London around 1917."
I am trying to find the exact location of where 535 Morrison Hill Road was as it seems there has perhaps been re numbering of that area.
This surely isn’t a suitable topic for the Sunday family lunch, nevertheless it is an important contribution to public health.
Dear colleagues,
I have been searching for a while in some of the surrounding hills in Mui Wo for clues and possible structural remains of the former silver processing factory which stood somewhere around Mui Wo between 1886 and 1896. Unfortunately we couldn't find anything yet. There are some information on the web regarding location, ropeway chimneys and landing places ? I learned that most of the rocks, for processing, came from China and there were 6 different mines at that time. I dont't know if this is correct.