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New on Gwulo: 2020, week 16
You've been busy!In the two weeks since the last New on Gwulo you've added over 400 pages, photos, and comments. I've listed some of the highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any...
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Gwulo's 2009 Top Ten
Mail, maps, and movies make the Top Ten list for 2009. #10 - The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) (38,997 views)This was the one where Roger Moore as 007 visited the British MI6 office in the wreck of...
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How I added a new old paper map to Gwulo
I've just finished adding another old paper map to Gwulo's online maps. I'll come back to the map itself in a future newsletter, but this week I'll take a look at what went on behind the scenes. 1....
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Gwulo's 2010 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages from ten years ago. #10 - RAF Mount Davis [????-1959] (33,416 views)If I asked you to name a military site on Mount Davis, you'd probably pick one of the Jubilee or...
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New on Gwulo: 2020, week 18
I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see the latest additions to the site. GeneralShipping R.S.I.L. Calcutta inspection covers to Hong...
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Gwulo's 2011 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2011. #10 - Inscriptions for cemetery sections 10-16 (25,169 views)This is one of the longest pages on Gwulo. Here's a small...
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1920 Map of Kowloon
A few weeks ago we looked at how the 1920 map of Kowloon was added to Gwulo. Today we'll take a closer look at the map itself, and see what stories it has to tell of early 20th-century Kowloon.1920 map...
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Gwulo's 2012 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2012. #10 - Duncan George MACPHERSON [1912-1989] (11,896 views)Duncan began life in a crofters cottage in the Highlands of Scotland, but we...
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New on Gwulo: 2020, week 20
I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see the latest additions to the site. GeneralKlaus looks at how Hong Kong's roads were made in the...
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Gwulo's 2013 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2013. #10 - Ferry Routes (11,740 views)IDJ created this page to gather information about Hong Kong's disappearing ferry services. Old maps...
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1960 Lorraine J. Ford's slides of Hong Kong
60 years ago, Ms. Lorraine J. Ford visited Hong Kong. She signed up for a sight-seeing tour, and captured these scenes on Kodachrome slides. The view from aboveI guess the tour started as most do, with...
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Gwulo's 2014 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2014. #10 - Squatter village below Mount Davis (8,792 views)This newsletter showed a 1974 photo of shacks on the hillside, and talked about...
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New on Gwulo: 2020, week 22
I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see the latest additions to the site. GeneralGwulo's books are now available at the VIBE Book and...
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Gwulo's 2015 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2015. #10 - Chinese Christian Cemetery, Pokfulam [1882- ] (7,865 views)Mostly of interest to family-history researchers, this page has a brief...
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1960 - Lorraine J. Ford's slides of Hong Kong - Part 2
In Part 1, we looked at the slides Ms. Lorraine J. Ford took with her own camera when she visited Hong Kong in May 1960. Today we'll look at the first of two sets of commercially-taken slides that she...
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Gwulo's 2016 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2016. #10 - A wintertime wander through Shau Kei Wan (8,977 views)Join Phil and me exploring Shau Kei Wan: A temple, tunnels, British military...
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New on Gwulo: 2020, week 24
I've listed some of the recent highlights below, but you can visit the What's New page at any time to see the latest additions to the site. GeneralWhat's the oldest Hong Kong-made piano still in use?...
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Gwulo's 2017 Top Ten
A look at the most popular pages that appeared on Gwulo in 2017. #10 - UA-Citygate Cinema / UA 東薈城戲院 [2000-2016] (6,729 views)This is a modern cinema, so you might be surprised to see its page on...
View ArticleGwulo forever: backups and archives
This website holds a lot of valuable information, representing tens of thousands of hours of work. To recreate it would take literally years, and in some cases the information is irreplaceable as the...
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Gwulo's 2018 Top Ten
A look at ten of the most popular pages that were added to Gwulo in 2018. (I've skipped a couple of duplicates - eg there were three Jurors Lists - which is why we start at #13.) #13 - Francis Parkman...
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