Everything tagged: General

Found this down a hillside in Aberdeen country park.  Can anyone tell me what it is and what it says.  Thanks for your help.

I am looking to contact my nephew Alexander Butterworth who was born in 1966 to my Brother John Butterworth.

Alex's mother who has the christian name of Marie

If anyone knows of or about him, please reply.or contact myself via email  mike@mikebutterworth.com

Thanks Mike Butterworth

Hi All, and David, our host,

Does anyone know if there is a reasonably legoble map of Victoria Barracks around, preferably dating from the 1970s?

Thanks,

Bob

Hi 

I m Khim ex Gurkha soldier 

I m glad that with the gwlo Hong Kong 

I’m following and reading things in gwlo some time 

I m living in HK for almost over 30 years 

From recent year I m searching about Gurkhas contribution and preservation history in Hong Kong

but my searching resualt is vain

If gwulo have some references would be very grateful.

Thank you 

Good read here with nice photos of the history of the port of Hong Kong.

I was in TST last week and I did something I had been thinking about doing for years.  I went into Cohen Optical and asked them who Cohen is/was.  It turns out that Mr. Cohen is still alive, he still owns the shop and he now lives somewhere in South America.  He apparently comes back to HK once a year to sign papers.

Does anyone know his story?  I see on the 1941 Jurors' List that there was a Maurice Cohen who was resident at the HK Hotel. If that's him, he'd be extremely old by now!

There's a few generations of street signs around Hong Kong. Not sure exactly what period they are from but I like the ones with an English name on top and Chinese name underneath on a custom cut-out iron plate. Here's the ones I've seen: https://hiddenhk.com/old-hk-street-signs - I'm sure there's more around, anyone know of others?

Thanks, Scott

Hi my parents were in HK in the mid 50s and my sibling has a vague memory that they, or my mother particularly, may have received an award for helping out in her local area during a typhoon. It is an imperfect memory and we could not find anything among their effects, later, that corroborated the memory. Does anyone know where I might find any info about such things?