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When I visit the UK I try to match it with the dates of a postcard fair or two, to see if I can find any Hong Kong scenes. In last month's visit I went along to a fair at Woking, and as I walked around I heard lots of buyers and sellers say this was the first event they'd attended since lockdown. I was lucky!
My hope is that this thread has been covered on more than one occasion before, but if not, it is high time it was. I am speaking to the matter of extending to you, David, my heartfelt thanks for the bottomless time and effort you put into operating this website. I cannot imagine how much of your life over what, 20+ years, you have committed to bringing people together to celebrate their ancestors and the unique and remarkable society that is Hong Kong.
For those interested, parts of the document "Hong Kong Under Japanese Occupation" can be read online here A list of public notices that appeared in the Hong Kong News between January and June 1942 can be viewed
Japanese air raid bombs causing casualties first fell on Hong Kong on 8th December 1941? Apparently not.
I am trying to determine the drydock that held the American freighter Admiral Y.S. Williams just before the Japanese invasion in December 1941. I know the ship was 324 feet long and that it was drydocked in Kowloon. I assume this means the HK & Whampoa dockyard, but maybe the Cosmopolitan dockyard had a drydock large enough to take the Admiral Williams? Does anyone know which drydocks in Kowloon could hold a ship of this size?
I just want to post this link of a 244 page unclassified document for reference I found by acccident before I lose it by casually surfing onto another web page! This would be interesting for students of the history of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. Lots of hard to find information during this murky period of Hong Kong's history.
I have uploaded some pictures several times in general instead of to a Gallery. How do I remove those extra copies and photos that I should not have uploaded?
Chong-Sha-Wan (Cheung Sha Wan) Picnic House
Situated in the middle of the above village, on the border of, and about 20 yards from the sea. Opposite the Garden of Stone Cutter's Island, only a quarter-of-an hour's pull from the same.
Hong Kong Colonial Military Lands account (1900-1940)