What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• 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

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  • Victoria Park Swimming Pool

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• But the location of these two is still unknown:

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• 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 there any documentation that lists Shipping movements in / out of HK in the period of my interest (1843-1845); Port Authority documents, Newspapers, being 2 that immediately come to mind?
     
  • Can you identify any of the people in these caricatures drawn in the 1930s?
    • There are two sketches of the first man

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    • But only one of this man, labelled 'Red Blouse' in Russian

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    • And no clues for this one

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Gwulo talks in York and Edinburgh. I'm planning to give a talk in York and in Edinburgh in September. If you'd like me to send you the details once the dates & venues are confirmed, please reply to this email with YORK or EDINBURGH in the subject line.
   
• KCR carriages bought from the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) in 1948
   
• A football match in 1865 HK
   
• 1928: meeting on plans to build a hostel for women students of Hong Kong University
   
• Readers ask:
  • Yanbo Wang asks if anyone can put him in touch with Roger B. Houghton, "whose work on old Hong Kong and the Canton newspapers, especially A People’s History 1793–1844 from the newspapers, is very relevant to my research."

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Contributor Pingau has been updating and adding to the records of milestones that used to exist along Hong Kong's main roads
   
• Contributor lausanching has been adding press clippings about Hong Kong's schools from the early 20th century
   
• Origins of the Strong Wind Signal, which was first used in 1950
   
• Readers ask:
  • Does anyone have a photo of Apcar G. Apcar's gravestone at Hong Kong Cemetery, plot 23---/12/01 ?
     
  • Does anyone remember the Uttam children in Royden House School?
     

  • Which year was this photo taken:

    

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What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

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• Early bus services in Kowloon:
  • Kai Tack Motor Bus Company Limited [1923-1933], ran several of the early bus routes in Kowloon
     
  • 1927: New, larger buses from 1 Jan, and no monopoly granted
     
  • 1933: The Kowloon Motor Bus monopoly came into effect 
• Early English Colonial Education in Hong Kong in 19th-Century Hong Kong, and the historical foundation dates of King's College
   
• A Colonial Postbox Miracle ??
   
• Noel Instone Brewer and the Instone Banking Corporation
   
• Hong Kong War and Peace Documentary - Bill Lake
   
• Jury lists of 1840s, earliest 1844
   
• One potato per day - building the road to Sai Kung
   
• Rainstorms on 18 June 1972 and 18 June 2026
   
• Readers ask:
  • Is there any connection between the 'Royden' in Royden Court quarters and Royden House School?
     
  • Who lived in 13 & 14 Po Hing Fong at the time of the landslide disaster in 1925?
     
  • Who are the people in these photos:

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