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1950s Causeway Bay typhoon shelter
Where: We're looking across the Causeway Bay typhoon shelter towards North Point, with the Kowloon hills in the background. Who: It's hard to imagine, but the small boats in the foreground were homes....
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The Sloan family's memories of WW2 in Hong Kong
Book type: Diary / MemoirThe Battle of Hong Kong began on 8th December, 1941. My father was one of the brave soldiers that fought the Japanese invaders. In his honour and that of the others who fought,...
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A wintertime wander through Shau Kei Wan
The cooler weather is the perfect time to get out for a wander - follow Phil and me as we take a stroll around Shau Kei Wan. We visited wartime relics (Japanese & British), a 1960s film set, one of...
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A wintertime wander through Shau Kei Wan: Part 2
We'll finish off the walk around Shau Kei Wan, then I'll suggest some more walks you might like to try over the holidays. But more important things first - let me wish you a very Merry Christmas: A...
View ArticleMappy New Year!
For the first newsletter of 2017, here are some new scanned paper maps to enjoy. Click any of these links to see the paper map overlaid on the map below (or start with the tutorial if you're new to...
View ArticleGwulo in 2017
As we start the New Year, let's look back at how we did in 2016, then talk about plans for Gwulo in 2017.You'll see that the site has continued to grow over the last twelve months. We finished 2016...
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1950s YMCA & The Peninsula Hotel
Where: This is the view across Salisbury Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, looking at the YMCA [1] and the Peninsula Hotel [2]. They've been neighbours for ninety years.When: The photo comes from a small set that...
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1924 Seventeen years with the Hong Kong Canton & Macao Steamboat Company
Book / Document: Captain Pritchard's memoirsThis week's newsletter is an extract from Captain Thomas Pritchard's memoirs. He wrote them, and drew the sketches, while interned by the Japanese in Stanley...
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Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Best wishes to you and your family in the year of the rooster. This rooster comes from a 1930s application to register it as a trademark. He was to be used "in respect of Raisins, rolled oats, canned...
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1950s "A suburb view in Hong Kong"
When: This comes from the same set as the recent photo of the YMCA and the Peninsula Hotel in TST, and should be taken around the same time in the 1950s. There's a personal connection between the two...
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1950s YMCA & The Peninsula Hotel
Where: This is the view across Salisbury Road in Tsim Sha Tsui, looking at the YMCA [1] and the Peninsula Hotel [2]. They've been neighbours for ninety years.When: The photo comes from a small set that...
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1924 Seventeen years with the Hong Kong Canton & Macao Steamboat Company
Book / Document: Captain Pritchard's memoirsThis week's newsletter is an extract from Captain Thomas Pritchard's memoirs. He wrote them, and drew the sketches, while interned by the Japanese in Stanley...
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Kung Hei Fat Choy!
Best wishes to you and your family in the year of the rooster. This rooster comes from a 1930s application to register it as a trademark. He was to be used "in respect of Raisins, rolled oats, canned...
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1950s "A suburb view in Hong Kong"
When: This comes from the same set as the recent photo of the YMCA and the Peninsula Hotel in TST, and should be taken around the same time in the 1950s. There's a personal connection between the two...
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2017-02 RTHK's Hong Kong Heritage - Dan Waters' books at 41 Conduit Road
Gwulo takes to the airwaves! Annemarie Evans invited me on to her show, Hong Kong Heritage, where we chatted about the late Dan Waters' book collection, sidetracked into hunting & trapping in Hong...
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1902: "The Queen Victoria Jubilee Monument and the Hongkong Club"
Where: It's the view across Statue Square [1], with Queen Victoria's statue [2] in the foreground, and the Hongkong Club [3] beyond.Between the two we can see an untidy patch of land. It would get...
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1950s Hong Kong childhood
Chris Hall spent three years here in the 1950s, and has kindly shared these family photos:This train is on its way to Red China Castle Peak Hotel On a forbidden road in Shatin. Very pretty. By a...
View ArticleC.S.M. John Osborn, V.C.
This week's newsletter was written by the late Dan Waters:Largely, I suppose, because I saw action and four years of active service myself, in the Western Desert and Italy, in World War Two, when I...
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1906 Building destroyed by typhoon
When: This photo was taken shortly after a devastating typhoon hit Hong Kong on the 18th of September, 1906. Where: The photo was commercially produced, with a caption on the bottom. Unfortunately it...
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Hong Kong surprises in the National Archives
Finding what you weren't looking for is part of the fun of a visit to the archives. Here are a few surprise finds from a visit to the UK's National Archives last month:Refractory women on Kellett...
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