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Introduction
The population of Hong Kong in the early 1840s was about 6,000 people, increasing to 125,000 in 1865 (about 2,000 were Americans and Europeans) (source).
Increasing numbers of inhabitants lead to increasing traffic on the roads. As the “Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies” was a civilized area and had a tendency to set rules for every aspect of life, there obviously was the need for a regulation.
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Found this embossed bottle - Owbridge's Lung Tonic - on the side of a mountain on Hong Kong Island. Having not found this particular type of medicine bottle before, I took it home and went online to find out who Mr Owbridge was. I had no idea how serendipitous this chance discovery would turn out to be.
In 1951 I went by BOAC plane to Hong Kong, arriving August 6th. Sitting opposite me for the whole way, a journey taking 2-3 days, was a 15 year-old schoolgirl, Angela Fairburn. We stayed the night before in Rangoon. I liked her a lot and hoped to meet up with her in Hong Kong. She asked me out with her parents, but I could not make it then. I never heard from her again and I have always wondered what happened to her.
I am 87 years old now so this query is a bit late in the day!
A week of hard labour has paid off.
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Hi all - I'm trying to write up my life as a soldiers' son in the 50's and 60's and in an attempt to make it a more interesting tale of a world that no longer exists, I need to add some photos. Tricky as mobile phones hadn't been invented! If anyone has some oictures of Stanley in the early 1960's, which I remember to be a rather smelly fishing village, I would be most grateful, and more importantly, so will my children, if I could pinch some copies. If it helps, my email address is: jon.boileau@btinternet.com
A whole range of unusual items found discarded on the slopes of The Peak:
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Two unbroken NAAFI tea cups and a house tile.
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I have a library card. Happy to help SCMP searches back to 1903.