Everything tagged: General

Both Gwulo and the Industrial History of Hong Kong Group have a number of posts on various aspects of the history of the Hongkong and Whampoa Dockyard .

Local bookstore Bookazine are celebrating the launch of their new e-shop with 15% off all books - so you can buy Gwulo's books for HK$143 each, instead of the usual HK$168. Here's how:

Step 1. Click these links to visit the Bookazine page of the book(s) you want to buy and click "add to cart"

The event history of the Annual Cross Harbour Swimming Race can be read here The Victorian Recreation Club's website has a photo in slideshow of the swimming race circa 1900.

Looking for information about Leo lai fong married ti Edgar bird Hamson 11/5/1940 in Hong Kong

Hello there: 

I have discovered where my great aunt and uncle Sally and Gordon Castle lived pre-Stanley. They lived at 12A Humphreys Buiilding, Kowloon. I have looked but can't find an archival photo of what the building looked like in the 1930s. Does anyone know of an old photo of this building? 

Thanks very much. 

Roberta Staley 

A subject, which may have been covered elsewhere, as it is a part of Hong Kong’s social history, is the question of how to find a suitable European bride in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. For young bachelors in the lower strata of European society the pool of well brought up girls was very small. But there did exist a pool of very well brought up European and Eurasian girls, who had had very little exposure to the wider world.

This one.

https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/何甘棠

When I find errors in Wikipedia in the English part I can correct them myself. However this error is on one of the Chinese pages  

• HK Government Mapping Service 2.0 tutorial (a good site for finding old maps of HK).

Does anyone remember a Mr Brown who I believe worked at the Cheerio Club around 1954? My name is Edgar  (Eddie ) Theobald from Luton, UK. 

Hello all

 I am following up on my past research on Hong Kong squatter areas, and a key issue for me that I am hoping to find more information about is the Squatter Occupancy Survey conducted in 1984.  Previously, only squatter structures were registered, but in 1984 all occupants of squatter structures at that time were registered, with the intention that only they would be eligible for resettlement in permanent public housing through clearance.