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Gwulo's books and photos are on display at the Michelin-listed What To Eat restaurant on Wyndham Street (G/F, Carfield Commercial Building, 75-77 Wyndham Street) for the next few months. Sample copies of the books are available to enjoy while you're waiting for your tasty Taiwanese food to arrive.

It's all good, but I recommend your order includes the raw bamboo shoots dish - it reminds me of a potato salad but extra fresh and crunchy!

Hello everyone, I am currently working on a project about sedan chairs. Would like to interview people who have experience taking sedan chairs/used to take sedan chairs in the past/ have good knowledge in sedan chairs. If you have info / photos about sedan chairs, please feel free to drop me a comment also.

Zillion thanks! xxxx

When the British first arrived in Hong Kong at the start of the 1840s, it took months to send a message to London and then receive a reply - messages only travelled as fast as the quickest sailing ship.

Just 30 years later, the electric telegraph reached Hong Kong: a message could be sent and the reply received on the same day. It must have had a huge impact on how business and government was run.

Copy of original available online at HKGRO. (You may need to click the link twice to see the document.)

299

No.16/90

HONGKONG.

REPORT ON PUBLIC WORKS.

I recall seeing Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia in Hong Kong in the early 90s or, possibly, 1989. I think Prince Charles was in Hong Kong on a private trip, and they spent most of the visit up in Double Haven. Does anyone remember this visit, and remember the approximate date? Thank you.

Copy of original available online at HKGRO.(from p53) You may need to click the link twice to see the document.

I’m still stuck on finding the sea voyages of several members of my family, who sneak out of Hong Kong and sneak back again on wily routes, it seems.  If I were able to check every single arrival and departures list in the newspapers, I would find them, but apart from the passenger lists on Ancestry.com I’m several voyages short and wonder if I can once more ask for help, in case anyone is better at newspaper searches than me (surely!), or can access websites that I can’t. I think the route via Kobe was sometimes used.

Among those I’m missing:

No. 184.—It is hereby notified that in order to prevent confusion arising from the existence of duplicate names of streets in Hongkong and Kowloon, His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to direct that the streets in the subjoined list be re-named as shewn therein.

STREETS IN HONGKONG.

Old Names | New Names.

I'm trying to get hold of a copy of a book......

The Vital Link Hong Kong's First Airline Imperial Airways (Far East) Ltd. 1935 - 1940.

English edition. Author: Ian D. Johnson. Published in 2007 by SoftRepublic Limited, Hong Kong.

ISBN: 978-988-99449-9-5

Can't find it for sale on the internet. Have asked Flow Bookshop in Hong Kong and Mary Martin Books in Singapore but have had no response.

I have been very interested to follow the discussion about Wan Chai Methodist Church. I am a museum curator at Manchester Museum in the UK. I am researching for a new China gallery opening in 2021. I am trying to find photographs of Revd Edgar Dewstoe (1873-1951) who laid the foundation stone at the building of the church in 1936.  He and his wife Sallie or Sarah's  collection of textiles and other objects are now in Whitworth Art Gallery. We would like to show them in the new gallery as an example of  the connections between Manchester and China.