Everything tagged: General

Hi everyone, 

i have a copy of this "Colonial Report" (https://digital.soas.ac.uk/LOAC000066/00103/1x), but couldn't find any website to describe who/why these reports were printed. would anyone know their purpose? 

this isn't the same as the "Blue Book", is it? scanned copies for other former british colonies can be found online as well

many thanks

It seems that some of those PBs on HK island share the same numbers, whereas those on the mainland don't have their numbers repeated. 

Are those numbers given to the PBs by the relevant government offices, or are they named in some other way?

pretty cool article and map published in 1889, called "Defences of Our Coaling Stations": https://gwulo.com/atom/38123

it mentioned East Point, the old Mint, Lye-ee-Moon Pass, Lammas Pass

pretty weird to describe your defense system in details...maybe they were trying to scare away potential invaders?

just uploaded photos of a booklet for tourists from 1924, published by Thomas Cook & Son.

the booklet has some interesting information:

On the plaque outside the gate lodge which leads to the former governor's summer residence on the peak, is written ..... "one of the two former gate lodges"....

I wondering where the second gate lodge was standing. Any replies are most appreciated. Thank you.

In 1987, I learned from a friend in Hong Kong that the old R.A.F. camp at Little Sai Wan was about to be demolished.  An old friend from my time in the R.A.F. and I decided to visit it and take photographs.  We booked a flight and hotel accommodation with a B.A. subsidiary to stay for a fortnight in late October, exactly coinciding with the 30th anniversary of our going there in 1957.  It was his first visit to Hong Kong since then.  I had taken my wife for a holiday in 1981 but neither of our wives wanted to go.

Update for 1 Nov 2022.

Airmail services are available to all of the usual countries we deliver to, with HK Post quoting delivery times of 4-24 working days.

A copy of the original document is available online at HKGRO.

Some observations: