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I’ll be in town again next week for five weeks. Anyone care to do lunch again? I can offer the American club in Exchange Square as a venue
I’m proposing 7 Nov, but certainly open to other dates that week.
Hi,
I am working with a colleague who is keen to tag the photos he plans to upload with appropriate tags. We have read the recommendations about tagging, but wondered whether there is anywhere on GWULO that we can view all available tags and make sensible choices rather than running the risk of creating new tags when suitable ones already exist.
Thanks,
David
Hi,
I would like to share some video footage on GWULO but can't find an upload option. Can you help please?
Regards,
David
Can anyone assist in identifying the people in this wedding photo. The photo is from the collection of Mavis Gock Ming and dates between 1939 and 1941.
Can anyone assist in identifying the people in this wedding photo. The photo comes from the collection of Mavis Gock Ming and dates between 1939 and 1941
I found this album in the University of Michigan Archives, said to be the last album William Pryor Floyd created in Hong Kong before he left. The views are all of the aftermath of the Typhoon of 23rd September 12874. Lai Afong also photographed the same Typhoon - many of his pictures can be seen on Gwulo. Click on the picture for a full view and to zoom in to read the captions
I've been looking through the old newspapers until 1940 for mentions of Dragon Boat, to see where the races used to be held .
During the 19th Century, mentions in the papers refer to the races held in Canton rather than any in Hong Kong. In Canton each year, several rowers would drown, and there were often brawls between teams that would end in several more deaths.
From the 1900s, the races at Aberdeen start to get covered by Hong Kong's papers.
Notes from Wikipedia:
HMS L4 was built by Vickers, Barrow. She was laid down on 21 June 1916 and was commissioned on 26 December 1918. She sailed with the Submarine Depot Ship HMS Ambrose (1903) to Hong Kong in 1919 as part of the 4th Submarine Flotilla, arriving there in January 1920. On 20 October 1927 off Hong Kong, L4 and HMS L5 rescued crew of the merchant ship SS Irene from a pirate attack after firing her deck gun. HMS L4 was sold on 24 February 1934 and then broken up in Charlestown, Fife.
104 Gun 1st Rate Ship of the line.
Launched 14th September 1825 in Portsmouth
Arrived Hong Kong 6th January 1858
Sold 1875, replaced by HMS Victor Emmanuel
In Harbour c1868:
In 1979 more than 60,000 Vietnamese refugees arrived at Hong Kong's sea boundary. In a talk with Annemarie Evans on RTHK's Hong Kong Heritage, I describe what it was like as a frontline Marine Police officer tasked to deal with the influx. The programme link is here:
https://www.rthk.hk/radio/radio3/programme/hongkongheritage/episode/597629