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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?

Tait & Co. were granted a lease of land in Amoy by the British in 1852.

Mr Tait was the Dutch, Portuguese and Spanish consul in Amoy that year and was notorious as the main exporter of coolies.

Tait & Co. was established in Anping, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1867 for the opium trade. 

So is this the Tait after which the cairn is named?  Did he spend time in Hong Kong?  Who thought it a good idea to honour a slave trader?  Information on this is so hard to come by.

Hi everyone!

We're looking into the Murray House at Stanley, and are attempting to find the truth behind the ghost stories, and we were wondering if anyone would be able to help us out with a few facts as we're fact checking articles on the basis of history; we'd be forever grateful! We've tried to research into the facts elsewhere but haven't been able to come across much, and are aware that there's a comment regarding the hauntings on the Murray House listing on Gwulo already, but it doesn't state much hard evidence.

​I am keenly interested in the WW2 Battle of Hong Kong in which Canadian Forces took the lead and suffered the highest rates of dead, wounded and Prisoners of War amongst the Allies posted in Hong Kong.

I have written this email [below] to the Hong Kong Leisure and Cultural Services Department to ask them to erect a commemorative plaque at the site of the former North Point Prisoner of War Camp.

Would you please write a similar letter to the LCSD or others, to encourage them to do the same?

You may do so by email to:

I would like to know something about the early efforts to plant and cultivate the Peak.

When looking at old photos of HK, say from the 1860s-80s, the peak looks more like a lunar landscape than the hillsides we have today with dense, impenetrable vegetation (hence the customary description of HK by early visitors as 'a barren rock').

Can anybody direct me to any reading about the efforts to cultivate the Peak, and about the decision what sorts of vegetation should be introduced?

I did try to search here but did not find much. I apologise if I missed some discussion.