Everything tagged: General

Hi

I would really appreciate your help. I'm writing a historical detective novel set in Hong Kong in the '50s. I've done quite a bit of research but there's lots left to do.

I'd like to ask a question about the Hong Kong tram: does anyone know what the numbers on the old tickets used to mean? Say for instance a detective found a used tram ticket (in the 1950s) how much information about the journey would the ticket give away?  

Personally I can't make much sense of them. 

Cheers

Does anyone have information about the minstrel shows that were put on by the folks in the Stanley and Sham Shui Po Camps during World War II?

Stanley seems to have held at least two minstrel shows:

Although the Hong Kong Sevens tournament was first played in 1976, seven-a-side rugby in Hong Kong goes back much further.

After reading about the building called Blarney Stone, Dave Inglis wrote in to ask if the HK Football Club's "Blarney Stone Shield" was connected to it in any way. He's heard that Blarney Stone was a ‘mess’ for young single employees of one or more of the big hongs, and it was the members of the mess who started the sevens competition pre-ww2.

I've updated the Person page to show a list of that person's siblings, eg see the page for Christina SHEWAN

It looks at the current person's parents, compiles a list of all their children, then shows them ordered by their date of birth.

My grandfather James Steven visited Hong Kong in 1908. He was on a world trip -  part pleasure, part business - for his father's firm, Steven & Struthers, a Glasgow brassfounders, that sold brass and bronze ships' chandlery, propellers, pumps, and lighthouse lanterns, world-wide.

He wrote letters over the course of his whole trip but unfortunately the ones from Hong Kong were missing by the time I transcribed them. Just the tantalising snippet that he was looking forward to the Chinese New Year celebrations when he got to Hong Kong.

If you look in the "Directory" box, you'll see a new section:

• Streets
  
  - View map - View new - Create

 Please try them out and let me know if you spot any problems.

The Royal Asiatic Society (RAS) are hosting this new talk, but it is open to all, not just RAS members.

The talk follows my usual format, but with a new selection of photos. I'm choosing photos from my collection that show people with a story to tell, who lived in Hong Kong during the late 19th, and early 20th Centuries.

All the photos have been scanned at high resolution so we can zoom in to see their hidden details.

(This is copied from the original document held in the UK National Archives, their ref: CO 323/1174/4)

To

HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR OF HONG KONG.

THE HUMBLE MEMORIAL of Sergei Patrowich Piankoff of the Peninsula Hotel, Kowloon, in the Colony of Hong Kong, Master-Baker, an alien.

SHOWETH:-

I’ll be in town starting next week for a couple of weeks. Anyone care to do lunch again? I can offer the American club is a venue but I cannot promise no rain… Perhaps a Chinese restaurant would work better ...

I’m proposing 8 May, but certainly open to other dates that week.

I shall finally be able to show my prototype of the Hong Kong Rate Books  project. 

Annelise

At the outbreak of WWII in September 1939, German and other 'Enemy' residents of Hong Kong were interned at La Salle College for a short period. Does anyone have information on this topic including the fate of these internees ?