What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Please do you have any photos of Scouts, Cubs, or Brownies, taken in Hong Kong in the 1910s-1930s? I am trying to put an accurate date on a photo I've just bought for a future video, and one clue is the children's uniforms.  The style of those uniforms changed several times in the early years, so by comparing them with other photos where we know the date, I'm hoping to work out when this new photo was taken. (Here are the photos we already have on Gwulo of Cub Scouts / Scouts / Brownies.)
   
• Should Hong Kong have an aviation museum?
   
• The Sai On / Tak Shing / Tung Shan ferry 
   
• Several updates for my recent video: 1945 flight over wartime Hong Kong
  • Correction: No evidence that Union Church was bombed
     
  • We've created new Place pages for several sites related to the video:
    • Military buildings off Chung Hom Kok Road
       
    • Huts(?) on Shek O Road [????- ]
       
    • WW2 Outdoor Kitchen near Aberdeen Lower Reservoir [????-????]
       
    • Wartime Huts at South Bay [????-????]
       
    • Wartime Stoves below Brick Hill [????-????]
       
    • Wartime Stoves behind Deep Water Bay [????-????]
       
    • Wartime Stoves, Hatton Road [????-????]
       
• Readers ask for help with:
  • What were the likely routes to travel from London to Hong Kong in 1920?
     
  • Looking for a photograph of the former Tsuen Wan District Police Station building on Castle Peak Road, Tsuen Wan, N.T. (as it was c.1980's if possible) to accompany an illustrated career memoir including time served there.
     
  • Looking for help to correct metadata in the records for the Frank Fischbeck Collection of photos
     
  • What or who is / was the origin of the restaurant name “Gripps”? 
     
  • Collector wants to buy pre-1920 maps of HK & surrounding region
     
  • Looking for any information about the building at the left edge of this photo:

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• An 'alphabetical list of the Proprietors of lands and buildings in the Town of Hongkong' from 1842.
   
• Illustration of the Shek Kip Mei fire, and after.
   
• To any Hong Kong based students reading (including secondary school / undergraduate / postgraduate students), there's a new history prize on offer for the best 4-8,000 word essay on any aspect of Hong Kong's history.
   
• Footsteps of Rev. Mackay in Hong Kong, at the beginning and end of his missionary life (1871-1901).
   
• Aberdeen photos on Uwants run to over 500 pages!
   
• Readers ask for help with:
  • Looking for photos of Utility poles, especially power lines, in old photos of Hong Kong.
     
  • Looking for any photos of the civil hangar's operational facilities and equipment at the pre-war Kai Tak airfield.
     
  • Looking for the passenger manifest of the last Voyage of Empress of France in 1929, from Hong Kong to Canada .
     
  • Can you identify any of the people in these photos?

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Places

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Over the last few weeks I've been adding a new overlay to Gwulo's maps, showing aerial photos taken by an American plane on 1 Feb 1945. I plan to describe it in more detail in a future video, but it is online now and available for you to explore.
   
• WW2 Japanese seaplane salvaged in Hong Kong in 1950
   
• "A place off the streets" - children's clubs in the 1960s
   
• Early buildings along Calder Path
   
• 1927 Kennedy Road - Alterations in House Numbers on Kennedy Road
   
• HKBU have put a text version of the 1938 Street Index online. It is a great tool for tracking down the location of old buildings and lot numbers.
   
• Readers ask for help with:
  • 'Eileen Van Bergen was my mother's closest friend (see her diaries). Does anyone know what was the cause of Eileen's death?'
     
  • Looking for information about grandfather Lo In Nin and a possible Rothwell family connection
     

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