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HK English language newspapers 1930s - Item

Submitted by gjks on

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.

Cemetery Pier 1864

Submitted by patricia on

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.

Pakhoi (Beihai) - female British pilot 1932

Submitted by Ian B on

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.

1946 Search for Hong Kong University's Silver Mace

Submitted by moddsey on

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."

Silvermine in Mui Wo

Submitted by danielwettling on

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.