New on Gwulo: 2026, week 20

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• Too Hot for Comfort - War Years in China 1938-50: extracts from Bill Ream's memoir of the war years in Hong Kong.
   
• What the chimneys on the wartime stoves above Quarry Bay looked like.
   
• Hedda Morrison's photos of Hong Kong from 1946-7
   
• Readers ask:
  • Looking for any information, photographs, memoirs, documents about the Greek population of Hong Kong from the 19th to the 20th century.
     

  • What is the origin & purpose of these concrete footprints?

    

     

  • Looking for information about Hong Kong artist Cheung Chung Tak (張宗德?):
    • Does anyone know who Cheung Chung Tak was, and whether he was a well-known artist in Hong Kong?
    • Was it common in the 1970s for Hong Kong artists to travel abroad and paint in front of live audiences?

    • Does anyone have records of similar paintings or exhibitions organised through 73 Lorne Street, Auckland around that period?
       

      

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Places

• Kowloon
  • CLP Fa Yuen Street Substation [????- ]
     
  • Jam Fair Department Store, Kowloon [1969-1991]
• Hong Kong
  • Bercenhus (later Wai Yuen) - 68 Deep Water Bay Road (RBL 667) [c.1955-c.1975]
     
  • Builders' Rendezvous, Vicon Building, AIL 152 [????-????]
     
  • Kaza, 1-3 Sik On Street, (IL-7612 & IL-7331) [c.1932- ]
     
  • Former Government Logistics Depot at North Point [c.1930-c.1990]
     
  • Sai Ying Pun Post Office (second location) / Fire Services Married Quarters [1968- ]
     
  • Shing Wong Street
• New Territories
  • Chun Hing Terrace, Yin Kong Village [????- ]
     
  • Shaw's Movietown [c.1963- ]
     
  • Tsuen Wan Slaughter House [c.1983- ]
     

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People & Organisations

(To see other pages on Gwulo that mention them, first click their name below to visit their page, then click their 'What links here' tab.)

• Joseph Coleman HUGHES [????-????], assistant with Holliday Wise & Co.
   
• Sir George William DES VOEUX, GCMG [1834-1909], Governor of Hong Kong
   
• Sotirios Patazi PATTARA [????-????], manager at Café Wiseman
   
• WW2: Stanley Camp internees:
  • Nicolas S DRACOULIS [c.1916-????], Greek mariner
     
  • John Dinsmore JOHNSTON (aka Jack) [1912-1989], missionary
     
  • William George Bertram REAM (aka Bill) [1912-1999], missionary
     
  • Joseph Ernest SANDBACH [1898-1991], minister and missionary
     
  • Edward Harold SMYTH [c.1881-1955], merchant, and country dancing master!
     

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