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China Sugar Refinery Co.
Involvement of the extended Rodger Family from Greenock, Scotland.
During genealogy research on my brother-in-law’s family from Greenock, Scotland, I came across a number of the extended Rodger family having significant connection with the operation and management of the China Sugar Refinery from 1879 to its closure in 1927.
I find it confusing and hard to search for all topics/images/places etc. on or about a particular event or place. I mainly concern myself with researching the Battle of Hong Kong, and I find it hard to search, for example, of all photos of soldiers in combat on Gwulo. It would be greatly beneficial if we added an option to search by date (e.g. search only photos taken in Dec 1941 instead of having to view the gallery of all photos of the 1940s), or standardizing the tag function so that e.g. "Pillbox" and "Pill Box" don't appear as seperate tags.
In 1949, the KCR obtained new wagons from BRC&W in England, which consisted of 45t covered vans, high and low-sided wagons, brake vans, flat wagons and oil tankers in order to make up for a loss in wagon after WWII.
The numbering system for these post-1949 wagons would have been a 6 digit number
First 2 digits: Unsure, might be carrying capacity in tonnes
Third digit: type of wagon (1-Flat Wagon, 2-Low-sided Wagon, 3-High-sided Wagon, 4/5-Van)
Fourth to sixth digit: Wagon number
Could anyone shed some light on these wagons? Thanks.
Couple pieces of carved stone with metal frame or support (??) in Explosives Magazine of the Victoria Barracks (now Asia Society). Anybody knows what are they and their history??
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I have walked along Plantation and Plunkets Road to find the location of the former Craigieburn Building. Could anyone please let me know perhaps what Buildings are now present on that particular site. I always thought that the Craigieburn was, where todays Peak School is located. Any tips and input are very much appreciated. Thank you very much
The Hong Kong Government issued Postal Guides (Post Office Guides) annually since the early days but I am unable to find many of them from the 1930s and 1940s.
I have gone through the holdings of the Hong Kong and UK Public Record Offices, Hong Kong Library and Chronicles & Directories but there are many unaccounted for.
Does anyone have knowledge of where else they may be found or any ideas on this matter?
Thanks in advance
This is part of the Official lists of Civilian Internees & Volunteer Defence Forces from 1942.
You can click on the bold column headings, eg Name, to sort the table by the values in that column. (This can make it easier to find a name, as the names in the printed document weren't always listed in alphabetical order.)
We are having our resident's Lounge done up here at CCC. We have some framed drawing by the above artist, and I got to thinking about him. I think that he was with the SCMP. What a gifted guy! Can anyone fill me in with any details? Thanks! Keep safe everyone!
Hello! This link came up on our family WhatsApp, which shows an old promotional video for the Bedford truck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=lxINOC9OIRs&app=desktop
I wonder if anyone can tell me the author of the poem Come to the Peak ha! ha! apparently about the bird the francolin?And the title of any anthology it was published in?The poem was written around the time of World War 1. I have not been able to find out anything about it via Google.