[Update March 2019: Serene has identified the building in the comments below.]
The building is near the centre of this 1947 photo:
Does anyone have any memories or observations of dugongs or mermaid folklore in Hong Kong and has anyone ever written up a comprehensive history of the 1993 Mermaid rumour in Hong Kong? Dugongs are now very rare indeed or extinct in the Pearl River Estuary.
I have an account of a 1940 Dugong/sea cow seen off Lantau and I`ve also heard of a mystery animal called the Lutung or Luting fish whose identity I would like to know.
Richard Muirhead
This morning Paul Harrison took me along to see what he's called the 'Lego building': granite blocks and columns stacked up on a patch of flat ground below lower Baguio Villas.
Does anyone know the story behind them?
Here's the patch of flat land below lower Baguio Villas. There's a fence running across the ground, and beyond the fence you can see the blocks in the distance, over to the left:
Looking for information on my father, we lived on the peak late 1950s his name David Frederick Trevelyan Kingdon,he worked as an import clerk I believe,nothing required only information Regards Mike Kingdon
[20 April 2018: Updated: Herostratus has identified this as Sharp & Co.'s building. See comment below.]
There's a three-storey building on the seafront in old photos of TST. Look at the building in the centre of this photo:
I wonder what's the occasion in this film? There are plenty of senior military people around, if that gives any clue.
The title for the film on Youtube is "Opening Ceremony of The University of Hong Kong". The original opening cermeony was back in 1912, so it shouldn't be that we're watching. Maybe a ceremony to celebrate opening some new buildings?
"A friend of mine recently found some old black & white negatives in her cupboard. I transferred some of them to positives and a lot of them are of Little Sai Wan and staff. You’re most welcome to have them."
Many thanks to the above contributor (who wants to remain anonymous) for getting touch from the UK.
Here are the first few, more to follow. Apart from #4, any ideas of dates & locations? (Click any image for a larger, zoomable view).
We first mentioned this in August 2007 (see this article, and the comments that follow it), but we're still none the wiser what it was for.
Unfortunately I can't pinpoint an exact location for this place. An email sent to Shatin District council has solicited only vague details, and I can't seem to find anything on the web. According to a very helpful Jadee Bow at the Shatin District Council, they have no exact location because it was probably bulldozed during the development of Shatin town centre and the widening of Tai Po Road. Another council member recalls that it was on Tai Po Road near Lek Yuen and Wo Che (both now turned into Govt housing estates).
