Everything tagged: General

Putting it out here as another useful research resource of civilian internees and some POWs resulting from the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. This is the recent cataloguing of nominal cards comprising Series CO 1070

This is explained in this blog by Katrina Lidbetter with searchable link or:

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Awjb1nPQs/

Fishing around in my wallet for some change and pulled out what I thought was a 50c coin. Only to see the edge was milled and had a central groove (modern 50c edges are smooth). It turned out to be a George VI 1950 10c coin. It's almost as big as a modern 50c and is probably why it's still in circulation - mistaken for a 50c.



I'm not a coin expert but it's nice to find something reasonably old still doing the rounds. Maybe it will trigger some memories for some readers.

He worked at Wendover Peking Restaurant (UK) in the late eighties-have wondered what happened to him for years and would love to know how he is etc.

My name is Melanie Coe

He’d be in his 50’s now like myself

He wanted to go back to Kowloon and be a Policeman

Noticed the captioned map for downloading at: https://crouchrarebooks.com/product/map/central-hong-kong-in-the-1930s-2/ The fact sheet can also be downloaded. 

Hi everyone 

Last year, I started a project - HK263 - to swim around every island in Hong Kong and share the city's rich history along the way.  Last year, we managed 19, including Tung Ping Chau, Ninepins and Po Toi.  

Our next adventure is some of the small islands around Clearwater Bay and southern Sai Kung - Steep Island, Trio Island, Ping Min Chau and perhaps Bluff Island, Town Island or Basalt Island.

If anyone has any stories and/or pictures of these islands they could share I would be really grateful.

My Great-Grandfather ( 1922-1994) owned a meat butchering shop in Central from 1958-1987.  When he was young, he was forced to leave HK back to Dongguan, China, due to the Japanese occupation. He had kept some coins and banknotes from WW2 in a box ( full of Japanese military yen) under his bed. It went into my father's collection, and I am planning to sell it, to fund my friend's birthday gift.

It consists of one ten cent King George coin from 1939, and one 5 cent coin from 1937. Both are in uncirculated condition.

The launch was built for the New Territories Administration.

David Akers-Jones shares some memories of this launch from the 1960s in his book, Feeling the Stones.

Click 'play' to see the launch in 1970:

https://podcast.rthk.hk/podcast/item.php?pid=164&eid=250098&lang=en-US

Hello Everyone,

My grandfather Mak Hin For (麥顯科) owned and ran a pharmacy in Central (my uncle remembers it to be on a road with electric tram) before he immigrated to Canada in the mid-1960s with his 8 children. 

The pharmacy was named 中大. This is the only information I have. I've been interviewing all my aunts and uncles and gone through all our photos but we didn't have many photos of the family in HK