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eurasian_david found this report of a well at 4 Queen's Road Central being closed in 1899:

“A WELL TO BE CLOSED.

Mr. F. Browne, Government Analyst, certified that the water obtained from a well at No. 4 Queen’s Road Central was so tainted with impurities as to be unfit for potable purposes and likely to prove injurious to health.”

Hello wonderful forum. I have enjoyed the amazing info people contribute here and really hope to get a conversation going.

I'm presently working on a photo project I started back in 2014 and have exhibited; interviewing and collecting stories of the Tanka people that lived round Hong Kong. I have now moved forward with the project to concentrate on the changes of their lives- 100's of years on the water ending in one generation with sweeping government changes.

Can anyone help with some information? My partner claims his Mother's Aunt's husband's first wife was the last woman to be executed in Hong Kong. There is some truth to this, but I suspect she wasn't the last... All I know is that this execution took place in Hong Kong in the late 1940s, and it involved a woman who poisoned her children and workers in the shop the family owned in Western district. The husband survived, went on to remarry and had a second family. The first wife was seldom if ever dicsussed.

The hosting company has finished moving the Gwulo website to the new server. It has more RAM and storage available, in preparation for the upcoming website upgrade.

Everything should be working the same as it did on the old server, but if you see any problems then please let me know.

Regards, David

Sir John Keswick had instructed me to “see the old Empire” on the way. So early in 1958 I arrived in The Crown Colony of Hong Kong, first class on the MV Victoria; heady stuff for a 22 year old!  I was joining Hongkong Land Co. and they housed me in their central Gloucester Hotel.

The ‘British Empire’ was still in existence, at least in some colonial minds. Hong Kong was a relatively quiet territory, coping with the effects of the changing political arrangements on the mainland. China had cut itself off from the world and the Great Leap Forward was vigorously underway. 

Came across the captioned recollection of Lt. Johnston, Royal Rifles of Canada at https://heritagelsl.ca/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/C.-Douglas-Johnston-WW2-Hong-Kong-War-Recollections-.pdf An interesting read.

1958

In 1958, Hong Kong was a relatively quiet British Colony coping with effects of some changing political arrangements in China, hidden behind its borders. The population had grown to an unprecedented 2.5 million people. The Japanese occupation was still a topic of conversation.  The territory was far more isolated in every sense than it is now. The economy was generally weak.