Ewart Hunt Gallery
I was surprised to come across two images in the Ewart Hunt gallery that feature in the book "Hongkong" by Swiss writer/photographer Martin Hurlimann (published 1969).The images in question are Ewart...
View Article2019-12 RTHK's Morning Brew: Old HK photos and the new Gwulo book
Many thanks to James Ross for inviting me on to today's Morning Brew programme on RTHK Radio 3, for a chat about old Hong Kong photos and the latest Gwulo book.You can hear us at the link below. Scroll...
View ArticleDo all HK marina sailboats use fixed keels?
Personally havimg done a bit of inland sailing, I am curious about what was sailed at the yacht clubs. While incollege I sailed a bit summers at an inland lake where I was a lifeguard. The last half of...
View ArticleDiscovery Bay and Mui Wo
Hello,I would like to ask, when was the first time, the bay, (which is now called Discovery Bay, ) has been mentioned somewhere in a journal or document, back in the early years of the colonization....
View ArticlePhotos from HMT Nevada 1958 or there about
I have found afew old photos from when my father Brian Tunnicliff did his national service and arrived in Hong Kong on the Nevasa. It's probably a long shot but does anyone recognise any of his...
View ArticleChina Families (genealogy web site, searches directories etc)
Gwulo users may find the China Families site useful. On it you can find a growing body of information about men and women of many different nationalities, professions and ages, who lived and worked in...
View ArticleSailor's Home, West Point, Hong Kong
Hi, I am tracing an ancestor that died intestate in China in 1912. According to the British Supreme Court for China, intestate memo books register record, his father's address is given as Sailor's...
View ArticlePictures of 7th Queens Hussars 1958 wanted
Does anyone have a picture of my fathers regiment from REME 7th Queens Hussars 1957/58/59? im unsure which year he would be in but he was born 1935.Forum: General
View ArticleMay Road - origin of name
I've been asked recently about May Road. I'd assumed that it was named after FH May, Governor 1912-19 ... and at https://gwulo.com/atom/23602 Gen Suzuki gives us the Wikipedia entry for it which say...
View ArticleRoad Between Mody and Middle Road in 1958
If I had been able to find a map of Tsim Sha Tsui in the late fifties I would have found my answer without bothering other readers.On the east side of Nathan Road between Middle and Mody Roads there...
View ArticleSquatters in Hong Kong - lecture this Sunday
https://www.uchicago.hk/events/on-the-verge-of-metropolis-squatters-in-h...I'm hoping to go to this ... or rather I was, but I notice that at least half of it is in Cantonese. As a non-speaker, does...
View ArticleTracking down a Centurion
My Grandfather Malcolm Sandison was part of C Squadron in the 17th/21st Royal Lancers in the mid-late 1950’s based in Germany. He was the driver of a Centurion Mk3 later converted to a Mk5,...
View ArticleHong Kong Gov Reports Online
I've been having problems getting this to load in the last 24 hours ... and a few months ago all I could get was an error message. Each time I've emailed the webmaster (webmaster@lib.hku.hk) and a...
View ArticleBritish Barracks in the 1840s
The book Eastern Fortress has the claim of barracks at Tin Wan and Tai Tam (p.10), and Eitel claims that in 1843 Pottinger pushed forward ‘vigorously’ the building of ‘substantial’ barracks in Aberdeen...
View ArticleHKSRA & YMCAI
HiI have been looking at the few items left by my uncle Robert Sidney Hill after his death last year.He was born in Shanghai, interred by the Japanese during the war, moved to Hong Kong with his...
View ArticleHalcyon Circle
Does anyone know anything about an organisation called The Halcyon Circle? It is mentioned a few times in the South China Morning Post, first mention in 1940 and last in 1949. It seems to have been a...
View ArticleHugh Ernest Richard Gay Cuming
How would I find out where he is buried, it is only because of your website I now know the burial took place on the 9th of October 1915 at St John’s Cathedral. He was born 21st of April 1913. Where...
View ArticleRequest for 1962 TV / radio archive
I am a Hong Kong-based TV producer working on behalf of the British ITV series Long Lost Families. We are currently producing an episode about a Chinese woman who was abandoned as a baby in a shop...
View ArticleShek I or Shekki Junk Wharf
These may be two completely different places ... but has anyone ideas about where Sheki or Shek I ... near Macao (by implication not in HK) might be - the year is 1900.And another story I'm working on...
View ArticleBritish Barracks in the 1840s
The book Eastern Fortress has the claim of barracks at Tin Wan and Tai Tam (p.10), and Eitel claims that in 1843 Pottinger pushed forward ‘vigorously’ the building of ‘substantial’ barracks in Aberdeen...
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