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welcome to join us kind regards david p s to receive more old hong kong photos and stories please sign up for our free weekly newsletter new on gwulo 2026 week 40 submitted by david on sun 10 04 2026 03 00 what s new and updated on the gwulo website general for readers in hong kong i see the university hall on pokfulam are celebrating their 70th anniversary with an open day on sunday 4 oct 2026 11am 8pm no prior registration is required simply drop by to explore reconnect and commemorate seven decades of history i went on a tour of the hall some years back and enjoyed hearing about its history some parts of the building date back as far as the 1860s other interesting locations nearby include bethanie pokfulam village and the walk to from the peak via pokfulam reservoir we ve just finished transcribing leo landau s prisoner of war diary thank you to all the volunteers who have helped and special thanks to brian mcdouall morbach and wingcli2015 who have handled the bulk of the work read the diary pages from 1944 45 if you have friends in south west england that have a connection to hong kong please could you let them know about the talks i m giving next week in cheltenham wed 7 oct and exeter sat 10 oct a bonus for the cheltenham talk historian and author patricia o sullivan will join us so if you have any questions about the history of hong kong policing prisons or you have copies of her books you d like signed please bring them with you after the talks we ve got the rooms for another hour so there will be plenty of time to enjoy chatting and sharing memories of hong kong with the other guests performances of the play our town in hong kong in the 1960s 80s peter liu remembers growing up in big wave bay village in the 1950s sketch of big wave bay village house in 1950s by peter liu video of morris a cohen in 1960 recent news in the wartime diaries 1942 27 sep 1942 just over 1800 pows from hong kong start their journey to japan where they expect they ll be put to work as manual labour they notice the name of the ship they are boarding is the lisbon maru conditions in the holds are terrible 1 oct 1942 american submarine grouper fires torpedoes at the japanese ship lisbon maru unaware that over 1800 allied pows are on board a torpedo strikes the ship which starts taking on water the japanese crew and soldiers are removed to other ships but they keep the pows locked in the holds only lowering a hand pump to the pows who must use it to slow down the rising waters 2 oct 1942 the pows in the holds of the lisbon maru realise the ship is going to sink and decide to break free japanese ships nearby shoot and kill many of the men some men are rescued by local fishermen and eventually the japanese ships also start picking up men from the sea but over 800 of the pows who boarded the lisbon maru did not live to reach japan 1943 23 sep 1943 the second repatriation ship leaves hong kong the teia maru sets sail with mostly canadian repatriates but also several from the usa and latin america correction greg leck notes that only the group who boarded at hong kong were mostly canadian repatriates he says that the vast majority of the repatriates on the ship were from the united states from camps throughout the far east thanks to greg for the correction 1945 2 oct 1945 mabel redwood wakes up in colombo believing her fiancee is far away in hong kong in fact he has also arrived in colombo on board a different ship there is a reunion a wedding and by that evening mabel is a married woman with a new husband and a new name mabel large readers ask jo asks for information about the swiss inn on gloucester rd and the mandarin hotel in the early 1970s when their father ming jai abel worked there as a chef can anyone translate the chinese notes on the back of this photo where was this photograph taken hong kong riots 1967 by rogeroger places read more about new on gwulo 2026 week 40 log in or register to post comments new on gwulo 2026 week 38 submitted by david on sun 09 20 2026 04 00 what s new and updated on the gwulo website general thank you to everyone who attended my recent talks in york and edinburgh the audience was a good mix of long term followers of gwulo and people who have a connection to hong kong but are new to the site it was a pleasure to meet you all after our visit to the north east next month we re heading in the opposite direction to give talks in cheltenham and exeter please use the following links for booking and details and i look forward to seeing you there wed 7 oct gwulo talk in cheltenham sat 10 oct gwulo talk in exeter the project to put leo landau s prisoner of war diary online is going well volunteers have already processed the pages from 1942 and 1943 and are making good progress with 1944 if you d like to help please reply to this newsletter by email with diary in the subject line and i ll send you the files for the next page in the queue read the diary pages from 1941 43 see the steps required to help process a scanned page recent news in the wartime diaries 1942 25 aug the ms gripsholm repatriation ship sails in to new york harbour it has been almost two months since the americans left japanese occupied hong kong but finally they are home 8 sep the japanese release the chinese members of the hkvdc from the sham shui po pow camp eric macnider in stanley camp writes about it later in his diary on 17 sep 124 chinese malay annamite hkvdc men released from p o w camp by japs 1945 30 aug the allied fleet sails into victoria harbour admiral harcourt visits stanley internment camp where he gives a short speech and there is a flag raising ceremony 11 sep 1945 the internees in hong kong and the pows in japan begin their long journey home 16 sep the japanese officials in hong kong sign their surrender in a ceremony at government house in the evening ships in the harbour gave a fireworks display in celebration in the previous newsletter gw introduced us to the scenes in mum s hong kong color slide service collection a set of colour slides of hong kong several of the slides started discussions to identify the scenes in more detail and gw has posted an update with a summary of the findings hongkonger has started mapping the old fashioned granite marker stones you ll sometimes see when out hiking in the hong kong countryside village boundary stones direction stones photos of comet tanks in hong kong droughts and water restrictions rationing in hong kong all gwulo s books are back in stock at amazon affiliate link a box of my books went missing en route to amazon but i ve sent a replacement and this one arrived safely jamie carstairs introduces new resources from bristol university the historical photographs of hong kong website is now live if gwulo readers wish to see high res versions of all the marvellous martin funnell hk panoramics you need to go to the new special collections preservica site still being populated via the long url link at the bottom of the online archive catalogue page for dm3108 then click on the little blue folder icon the image loading is rather slow but the zooming in is good david click here for a shortcut to the hi res panoramas one more mention of the york edinburgh talks if you need venues for illustrated talks i can confidently recommend the main hall at clements hall in york and the studio at augustine united church in edinburgh both had clear audio and screens that all the audience could see clearly plus the staff were both helpful and knowledgeable which made the setup very straightforward while preparing for the edinburgh talk i discovered not only did famous photographer john thomson grow up in edinburgh but that his childhood home was just five minutes walk from our venue at 6 brighton road i went along to pay homage and as you ll see in the photo below there is a brass plaque on the wall commemorating him it turns out that plaque is there because of the good work of jamie carstairs he has written up how he tracked down thomson s house and got the plaque installed readers ask 1980s era hilton horizon magazines is there any hong kong based person or archive that would like to take these looking for any information about late uncle george william lythgoe based at room 1007 man yee building des voeux road central in the 1960s is there a chinnery collection for viewing anywhere in hk when was the peak hotel garage built was the hsbc tai o branch the one next to the rope ferry steps already open for business in the 1960s where on the peak was this taken the peak by philk can anyone identify this house typical peak home c 1895 by philk places read more about new on gwulo 2026 week 38 2 comments log in or register to post comments mum s hong kong color slide service collection submitted by gw on wed 08 26 2026 08 12 this week s newsletter is a guest post by regular contributor gw introduction my mum recently rediscovered a set of slides she d bought in hong kong in about 1986 they ve been digitized and are posted below in order of the reference codes printed on their frames with their titles the accompanying comments aim to establish each slide s where and when many of the where s are obvious but the when s less so dates without a quoted source come from elsewhere on gwulo the slides 1 xb3 rickshaws in the street xb3 rickshaws in the street by gw i guess tourists were the main buyers of slides like these so a set would have to include a pic of that favourite hong kong stereotype the rickshaw even though they d ceased being used as a form of transport well before the 1980 s if i remember correctly the only ones still around in the mid 80 s were parked outside the star ferry hong kong side and for a fee were available for a short ride around the concourse area and a photo this pic was taken on connaught road central in the background from right to left are the 2nd gpo building 1911 1976 union swire house completed 1962 and st george s building demolished 1966 that gives a preliminary date range for the photo of 1962 to 1966 the hoardings on the left are where queen s building stood until replaced by the mandarin hotel the mandarins soft opening was on 1 september 1963 but it obviously wasn t near completion when this photo was taken meaning it was probably taken in 1962 or early 1963 2 xb6 des voeux road central xb6 des voeux road central by gw it s the junction of des voeux road with pedder street left chater road right and was probably taken from the read more about mum s hong kong color slide service collection 5 comments log in or register to post comments new on gwulo 2026 week 34 submitted by david on sun 08 23 2026 02 00 what s new and updated on the gwulo website general courage in the shadows is the newly published biography of phyllis nolasco da silva phyllis worked for the baag in kwongchowwan for three dangerous years in ww2 controlling their agents there and surviving interrogation and blackmail by the japanese and their chinese staff please help to put a shamshuipo pow camp wartime diary online barbara harding has scanned her father s wartime diary and has generously offered it to be included in our daily wartime diary emails luckily advances in ai mean that the handwritten pages can now be converted into text automatically with good though not complete accuracy can you help add a page from the diary to the daily emails there will be three steps that should take you less than an hour in total use free ai to extract the text compare the ai generated text with the original and correct any mistakes post the daily diary entries to the gwulo website if you d like to help please reply to this email with diary in the subject and i ll send you over a scanned page and instructions on how to process it to see the finished results you can view the first and last entries from leo landau s wartime diary which i ve already transcribed and posted online members of the yorkshire society in the argyle street pow camp in the wartime diaries 16 aug 1945 war is over more memories of growing up in mount nicholson government quarters a king shipyard in the 1940s 1970s hong kong china history talks in the uk just two weeks to go until my talks in york 5 sep and edinburgh 9 sep i m looking forward to them i m going to repeat the talks in cheltenham and exeter in october if you d like details please reply with cheltenham or exter as your email subject bristol university s hong kong history centre are running their hong kong history day on 5 sep two speakers i recognise are tim ko and john carroll from hong kong both of whom give great presentations then later in the month the friends of east asia host host the talk chinese art for western interiors on 19 sep in london colin sheaf ex chairman of bonhams asia will give an illustrated talk on the growing enthusiasm for chinoiserie objects in the west during the 17th and 18th centuries unlocking the to tsai church 道濟會堂 registries a macro study of generational shifts dual track administration and the 1893 fung family twins a study of the early hong kong protestant elite disentangling the relationship and houses of kwan yuen cheung 關元昌 and kwan yun fat 關潤發 關元發 erratum and apology correcting the maternal lineage of fung fu 馮扶 and the identity conflation of kwan yuet ming 關月明 construction and expenditure summary king s college bonham road school what should we include in guidelines for new contributors for the gwulo website yet another two gun cohen film project readers ask looking for old school friends 1970s and 80s in hk kei oi buddhist tai hung collge caritas bianchi college of careers looking for an old friend from hong kong lau kwok yim charly charlie lau kwok yim by lilly rochlitz germany places read more about new on gwulo 2026 week 34 log in or register to post comments new on gwulo 2026 week 32 submitted by david on sun 08 09 2026 00 00 what s new and updated on the gwulo website general gwulo talks in york and edinburgh the venues are booked and look perfect for viewing old photos york has a large screen projector that is used for a community cinema and edinburgh has tiered seating and is one of the venues for edinburgh fringe links to details booking below please let any friends know you think might be interested york on saturday 5 september 2026 edinburgh on wednesday 9 september 2026 thanks to philk moddsey and jimmy for identifying the location of these slides in last week s video shatin valley 19 ploughing by admin victoria park swimming pool 15 by admin but the location of these two is still unknown 17 country view n t by admin 12 dragon boat racing by admin first football matches after wwii early history and migrations of saiyingpun school 1850s 1891 time to remember audio radio series 1960 70s readers ask looking for a photo of 1 queen s road west with red facade signage who were aseco asiatic european corporation ltd and a j van der weiden in hong kong in the mid 1960s what was the name of the disco in bank of america tower in the 1990s is ther...