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Dear all,
A friend of mine went hiking up Fung Mei Path in Diamond Hill where the quarry used to be and noticed these structures. She assumed I'd know their exact purpose - well, I told her I guessed they were ventilation shafts, but no idea why a quarry would have them? Anyone well-versed in granite quarrying techniques from the 1950's that might know what they were for?
Guest author Geoffrey Charles Emerson unearths the history of a small, silver trowel:
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I was very disappointed to find that the childrens book about the Dolphins does not ship to Europe (other than UK). This is a message that needs spreading.
I wanted 3 copies. If anyone knows of a way round this - or a link to the relevant Bookazine page, I'd be glad to know.
The above named people are my maternal uncle & his cousin respectively. Both served in the Royal Engineers in Hong Kong, to where my Uncle Reg was posted on 16th October 1937. Both died on the Lisbon Maru when it was sunk on 1st/2nd October 1942. In researching my family tree, I have gained lots of knowledge about their deaths and broad information about their military service. The gaps in my knowledge concerns their lives in Hong Kong before it fell to the Japanese. I do have some newspaper cuttings about Reginald winning a boxing tournament during that period (30th March 1938).
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Greetings all!
I am learning about some of the earliest western missionaries that lived in early HK. And I found a reference to an early visit made by a group of missionaries then stationed in Macao to HK Island in 1839 on the ship Scaleby Castle. On board was the American Henrietta Shuck and husband who were among the first to settle in HK.
I am interested in which artists have passed through, or indeed lived in, Hong Kong since the late eighteenth century, partly as I am a keen on the history of Hong Kong, but partly as I would like to (potentially) invest in something with a local flavour. Of course, everyone is aware of George Chinnery who spent many years in Macau in the early half of the nineteenth century. I understand he spent some time in Hong Kong, and indeed has a bar named after him in The Mandarin hotel.
As we head into the typhoon season, guest author Peter Kelly remembers the troubles they caused him in 1964, when he was in Hong Kong as a telecoms engineer with the army:
Our busiest time was during the typhoon season. This occurred every year with some years being spectacularly damaging. I had one of those years, with cables being uprooted by anchor chains and mass flooding of many of our manholes.
The warnings would start at number one or two and slowly climb to ten.