Everything tagged: General

If you visit a user's profile page (eg here's mine: https://gwulo.com/user/3),  you can now see all the pages that they created and / or commented on. The main profile page shows their latest five pages, then if you click the "Posts and comments" tab you can see all their pages.

The idea is to help in a couple of situations:

1. I can't find the page I'm looking for, but I remember that user XYZ wrote it.
2. I've really enjoyed the recent post by user XYZ, and would like to see more that they've written.

You now have the option to tell us about yourself in the Author Profile. eg here's mine: https://gwulo.com/user/3

It's completely optional, but if you'd like to tell us about your connections to old Hong Kong, and what parts of Hong Kong history you're interested in, here's where you can do that.

To create or edit your profile, you'll need to:

Is it possible to have online access to the old Hong Kong newspapers prior to 1900? The earliest date that it's possible to search seems to be 1900 on the "Advanced" option - or am I doing something wrong? Help please!

Jill

I have just read an SCMP articles that mentions a Japanese tunnel explorer on Lamma (Mr. Lockyer), who claims to have found a cave on Lamma in which Vietnamese refugees sheltered in after the 1979 Skyluck freighter sinking.

Any information would be very helpful

An interesting article starting on page 32 onwards to page 45 of this PDF covering the RAF’s arrival in Hong Kong in 1945

Most of the story has been told in various formats in previously published documents.

One map/diagram shows Ping Shan and Ka Tak far way from where they actually are..

https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/documents/research/RAF-Historical-Society-…

Does Hong Kong have the the UK equivalent of the contents of wills and probate available?  I am particularly interested in locating several from 1963, but living in the UK, I am unable to find anything on the Internet.

The list can be viewed here (double click)

Aaron Landau was a significant figure in Bangkok in the early years of the 20th Century. The story of the Landaus has been carefully researched by Aaron’s granddaughter, Barbara Harding (née Landau), and it is in many ways typical of the Jewish experience of Southeast Asia.

China Mail 11 September 1945

Kai Tak Aerodrome has been greatly extended, especially towards the south and northwest. The removal of large blocks of buildings, low hills and other features make it difficult to locate the boundaries of the pre-war airfield. The whole area is covered with long grass and looks very untidy.

I have a collection of old bottles that I have found over the years on the hillsides around Hong Kong island.  The Watsons bottles were found on the hillside behind the Governor's summer mansion on the Peak (before the slopes were concreted).  The flat bottomed torpedo bottle (Aquarius) was found in Tai Tam.  Can anyone date this one?

Any other bottle collectors out there who can give me any information on them, i.e. age, use.