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1964: Typhoons & Telephones

Submitted by Peter Kelly on

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.

20210707-10 Server troubles

Submitted by Admin on

The server has had some troubles over the last few days, but fingers crossed it should be ok now.

On the 7th, I had problems sending e-mail messages, and realised no messages were arriving to any ...@gwulo.com mailboxes.

The web hosting company restored a backup from 5th of July. That meant I had to manually add in any changes - new comments, photos, etc - that had been added to the Gwulo website after that time. If you've received two notifications of the same new comment, this is what caused it.

Ocean Park Summit Ridge Building

Submitted by HighlandPaddyHK on

Was riding the cable car the other day and noticed this structure.

Checked the GeoInfo map and there is an unlabelled structure there.

However, when checking the aerial photos, it doesn't show up before 1976, so I guess it's part of Ocean Park's infrastructure. Anyone involved with Ocean Park happen to know what it is?

Hong Kong's Ministry of Defence Lots listing

Submitted by jamesho on

Hong Kong's Ministry of Defence Lots listing - 【FCO 40/1872 M.O.D. Property】1985

MODL No.1 Gun Club Hill Barracks, Kowloon, 127 Austin Road

MODL No.2 Kennedy Road - Wireless Station site

MODL No.3 Cape Collinson - Military Cemetery ( W.D. Lot 68)

MODL No.4 Royal Navy Base - H.M.S. Tamar

MODL No.5 Royal Navy Ratings Quarters - Harcourt Place, Wong Nei Chong Road.

1960 - apartments and travelling from Canton to Hong Kong

Submitted by RedPanda on

Hi everyone! A few questions. How would someone travel from Canton to Hong Kong in the late 50s-early 60s? Which ports in Canton and HK would have been used? My grandma moved to HK in 1961 aged 20. She worked as an accountant at a factory that made leather gloves - any ideas of where abouts this factory would have been?

Also, does anyone have any pictures/experience of living in an apartment at that time, and what were they like? I know most people here are probably white middle class, but I am interested in seeing apartments that the Chinese would have lived in.

The Anglo-Chinese Boundary 1898

Submitted by Klaus on

Guest author Klaus Liphard describes how the boundary between the New Territories and China was created in the 1890s.

 

Introduction

At the end of the 19th century, the Chinese Qing Empire was weak. This was utilized by foreign powers - France, Germany, Russia, and also Great Britain - to force China to lease territories to them.

Bug: '{C}' is added to photo captions

Submitted by Admin on

Inserted photos have the text '{C}' added before and after their captions. It happens every time a page or comment is edited, so after several edits there will be a long string of {C}{C}{C}{C}{C}{C} added.

The current workaround is to turn off the photo's caption (right-click the photo, choose 'Edit atom properties', untick 'Add a caption', click OK.) You can still add text under the photo manually if needed.

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