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1950s Hong Kong - 1,000+ photos from the 367 Association
Here are a few highlights from the 1,000+ photos of 1950s Hong Kong that have recently been added to Gwulo. You can find out more about where they came from at the bottom of the page. City scenesFire.,...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 25
A look at what's been added / updated at Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details. Dates for your...
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Charcoal kiln on Jat's Incline [????- ]
Current condition: RuinWalking down Jat's Incline this morning, I noticed a small section of the hillside had collapsed after the recent rainy weather. The steep drop in the top section looked similar...
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Sugar & Oil: Dutch Hong Kong in the 1920s
This story starts with a photo album I bought a few years ago. It originally belonged to Mr Antony Bosje, a Dutch man living in Hong Kong in the 1920s. Here he is: What was Hong Kong's Dutch community...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 26
A look at what's been added / updated at Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details. Summer holidays!Sorry...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 34
A look at what's been added / updated at Gwulo.com over the summer. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new...
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Bread, Bricks, and Balls
Where: You probably recognise this view, but if you're struggling then imagine a line of cable cars running along the distant hillside at top-left. We're looking out over Deep Water Bay towards Brick...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 37
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralPanoramas added from 1845, 1887...
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1931 Draining the dry dock
Where: This is the Royal Navy's dry dock, part of their dockyard in Hong Kong. The dry dock still exists, but it is now hidden out of sight.The Royal Naval Dockyard closed in the late 1950s, then the...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 39
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralNotes & photos of Royal Navy...
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1946: Letters from Hong Kong
Author: Barbara ANSLOW (née REDWOOD) [1918- ]Dates of events covered by this document: Tue, 1946-01-01 to Tue, 1946-12-31Introduction from David: The second-half of the 1940s saw Hong Kong make a rapid...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 41
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralThanks to BM, Grace, kathrynsa,...
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Birthday Buildings in 2019
This is the seventh year I've made these lists, and for the first time we have a building on the '175-year-old' list. Before we take a look at that, let's see how the lists for the other birthday years...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 43
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralGwulo meetup on 7th November -...
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Photo (19): Ah-King’s 'Paula'
This week's newsletter is an extract from the new Volume 3 of the Gwulo books. It includes a lovely story from Barbara Anslow, but I'm very sorry to have to pass on the sad news that Barbara passed...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 45
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralThe weather's looking perfect for...
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Photo (1): Sulphur Channel
The new Gwulo book begins like this ...IntroductionHave you noticed how so many old Hong Kong photos have a harbour-related theme?The harbour is still important today, but it had a much greater impact...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 47
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralSeveral books are in the...
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Photo (2): Central and the Peak, c. 1906
The new Gwulo book continues ... What a dramatic sight this must have been – such a contrast to the visitors’ ocean voyage. Their last few days had been spent looking at the featureless horizon, but...
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New on Gwulo: 2019, week 48
A look at what's new on Gwulo.com. Please click on the photos or the blue links for more information - and please leave a comment if you can add any new details.GeneralI saw the printed proofs for the...
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