Everything tagged: General

Thanks to Annemarie Evans for inviting me on to her RTHK show, Hong Kong Heritage, for a chat about old photos of Hong Kong, and a visit to a piece of Kowloon's hidden history.

We finished up with a competition to win copies of both of the Gwulo books: last year’s Volume 1, and the new Volume 2 which will be published later this month. For details of how to enter, please listen to this week’s show at the link below (our chat begins at the 01:15 mark):

I am looking for information on a house by the name of Casa Bianca which was reported to be near Deep Water Bay. It was commandeered by the Army in December 1941. It was used for a while by Canadian Signals detachment after the evacuation of the Mainland. Philip

You'll recognise John Thomson's photos of Hong Kong in the 1860s-70s, as they are well-known scenes:

Hi all, I am helping on a research project for identifying places in old Hong Kong films before 1970. I came across a film in which the character claims a place to be Castle Peak Hotel but I cannot find any photo/video to confirm the location. The film is called The Blessed Family (合家有喜 in Chinese) released in 1959, it could be watched at YouTube (as shown below) and the segment showing the place is from 1:02:40 to 1:08:27.

I'm meeting Patricia O'Sullivan (author of the book Policing Hong Kong) at 6:30pm next Tuesday. Come along and join us for a chat if you're free.

We'll be outside, enjoying the autumn weather, near the Discovery Bay Ferry Pier in Central. If you have any trouble finding us, please give me a call on 9401-5251.

Regards, David

Helllo,
My mother was born in British HK on 1935.
How can I receive her birth record?
Thank you,
Dina

I've just attended the opening of this exhibition in 7 Mallory Street in Wanchai - 3rd floor.  Its a small exhibition devoted partly to the work on Savitsky and others, with input from some of those with White Russian HK heritage.  A lot is in Russian, but Irina, Kira and the other contributors are on hand to  explain it all.  And then I found quotes from Gwulo on Russian restaurants in HK! ... but they hadn't known how to advertise there event here.

I don't think this has been posted before, but I think there are still a few seats available for Barbara Anslows upcoming talk for the Hong Kong Society on November 19th in central London.  

Information here:

http://hkas.org.uk/hks-events-2/hks-annual-lecture

Dear John,

At about midday today (Hong Kong time), the server hosting the Gwulo website crashed. It restarted automatically, but the databases wouldn't load.

The hosting company ran into several problems getting the databases working again, but think they have everything fixed now.

If you spot any missing content, or problems with the website, please let me know.

Regards, David