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1940s View across Wanchai
Where: Looking out over Wanchai, with three landmarks to help us get our bearings:Southorn Playground is easiest to spot, the open area near the centre of the photo.At the bottom corner of the...
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1954 Summer holidays - arriving home on BOAC
Thanks to Ron Rakusen for sending this photo. He writes:I started at Boarding School in the UK in April 1952 and next saw my parents in HK when I flew there for the summer holidays in 1954. It being my...
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1957-8: Andrew Suddaby's photos
Thanks to Andrew Suddaby for uploading over 200 of his photos showing Hong Kong in 1957-8:Over to Andrew ...An amazing year in Hong KongIn 1957 I was half way through my National Service in the Royal...
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c.1922 View of Hong Kong from the harbour
Where: Hong Kong island as seen from the harbour. I've been tidying up this photo to use it in my next talk in November. One sequence looks at how this view has changed over the years, with the new...
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A stroll through Cheung Chau's history
Last weekend I joined a couple of friends for a wander around Cheung Chau. As the ferry pulled in to the bay, we noticed the boatyards across on the north shore:They reminded us of the boatyards in...
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One photo, two "Please help", and a grumble
The photo: 1955 Queen's Road CentralThis week's photo was for a customer who needed a 1950s view of Queen's Road Central to include in a booklet they're producing. Click here for more information about...
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Last month we read Barbara Anslow's memories of liberation as the Japanese surrendered in August 1945. In this passage, Graham Heywood remembers August 1945 and his liberation from the Prisoner of War...
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Rebuild the KCR Terminus - step 2
An update on progress, plus requests for modern drone photos of the tower, and old photos / films of the whole station building.Here's the latest model (email subscribers, you'll probably need to click...
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c.1900 Movember
Two splendid moustaches to celebrate the start of Movember [1]:What: The photos are each stuck on to thick cards, measuring 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. This was the most popular format for portrait photos in...
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Dry docks at Hong Kong
For my new talk, we'll look through the eyes of different people connected with Hong Kong's harbour. As you'd expect, the Royal Navy are one of the groups we'll look at, both the Navy themselves, and...
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2015-11 RTHK's Hong Kong Heritage
Join us for a walk along Lugard Road, chatting about its history. Here is the link to listen to the show:Â http://podcast.rthk.org.hk/podcast/item_epi.php?pid=164&lang=en-US&id=62986I'll include...
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Who owned these 1920s launch photos?
Can we work out who owned these photos? Here are the clues so far...What: All the photos are connected with this launch, named Paula:The seller didn't keep any of the photos' captions, but I think this...
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2015-11 RTHK's Hong Kong Heritage - Harlech & Hatton Roads
Join us for a walk along Harlech and Hatton Roads, chatting about their history. Here's the link to listen to the show:...
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Cool weather? Head for the hills!
We've just had our first few days of cool weather this winter, and cool weather means it's time to get out hiking!If you're out and about and you see anything unusual, please leave a comment or a photo...
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74 years ago: Hong Kong's wartime diaries
December, 1941.74Â years ago tensions were high as war with Japan seemed inevitable. On December 8th, those fears were confirmed when Japanese planes attacked Kai Tak, and Japanese soldiers crossed the...
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Birthday Buildings in 2015
It's nearly the end of the year, and I've just realised I haven't done a birthday list yet. We'll fix that pronto, starting with buildings that celebrated their 50th birthday this year... 50-year-old...
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Cool-weather walk #2: High West
This walk has three tunnels, great views, and lots of steps. One to keep for Boxing Day in case you need to walk off the effects of too much Christmas pudding!Here's the map we'll use. It's part of the...
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Happy New Year!We reached a new milestone in 2015 - Gwulo now has over 20,000 pages about old Hong Kong, including over 10,000 photos!I'll go into the numbers in more detail below, and also talk about...
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c.1928 Praya East Reclamation
Where: We're looking out over Wanchai, with Kellett Island and North Point in the distance:The main roads in the photo are the two parallel lines shown here:The top line is the old seafront, the Praya...
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1874 Typhoon
In one of Martyn Gregory's old photo albums a couple of photos show the destruction of this powerful typhoon, and a folded, yellowed slip of newspaper describes the event. All are reproduced here with...
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