New on Gwulo: 2026, week 24

What's new and updated on the Gwulo website:

General

• The 'Peak Tram Passing Loop' is where the ascending and descending Peak Trams pass each other. How it works is explained in What keeps the Peak Tram on the tracks and avoids halfway collisions?
   
• Walking down from the Peak via the tram tracks after a typhoon
   
• I was very sorry to hear that Bill Lake passed away this week. We're indebted to Bill for his labour of love untangling John Charter's wartime journal to make it readable - it is one of the key wartime diaries here on Gwulo. But I'll also miss catching up with him and Phil, to be regaled with tales from Bill's very colourful life. R.I.P.
   
• Readers ask:
  • Why is Gwulo's spell-check feature often disabled?
     
  • Who was the J. W. McCleod who appears on the KCC's Roll of Honour?
     
  • Looking for photos of the Central Escalator Link Alley Shopping Arcade, before it was re-developed into Street Food Central.
     
  • Looking for information on Admiralty's 'golden clock', the original 'Gum Jung'
     

  • Can you identify anyone in this photo. HKU c. 1929 

    

     

  • Hoping to contact the families of C. H. Jackson (father) & Thomas Jackson (son), and George Ahmed. They were involved in the s/s Sai On incident in Macau on August 19, 1943, and are shown in the photo below: 

    

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Places

(Click a Place's link below to visit its page - you'll see all the photos we have for it, and can add your memories of the Place to its comments.)

• Kowloon
  • Hong Garden (康園), Ho Man Tin Street [1956- ]
     
  • 20 Kent Road (1st gen) [????-c.2021]
     
  • 22 Kent Road (2nd Gen) [c.1957- ]
• Hong Kong Island
  • Bowen Road Peak Tram Station [1888-1985]
     
  • Harbour View International House / The Harbourview (Hotel) [1985- ]
     
  • The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts [c.1985- ]
     
  • Hong Kong Arts Centre [1977- ]
     
  • Kong Wan Fire Station [1987- ]
     
  • Peak Hotel Garage [c.1910-c.1960]
     
  • Shui On Centre [1987- ]
     
  • Underground public toilet at the junction of D'Aguilar Street and Wing Wah Lane [1914-????]
     
  • Wanchai Tower [1987- ]
     
  • Wanchai Tower II / Immigration Tower [1990- ]
     
  • Wanchai Tower III / Revenue Tower [1990- ]
     
  • Wing Wa Terrace [????-????]
• New Territories
  • MTR Kwai Hing Station [1982- ]
     
  • 2 through 16, even numbers, Luen Fat Street, Fanling [????- ]
     
  • 5 Luen Hing Street, Fanling [????- ]
     
  • 53 Luen Wo Road, Fanling [????- ]
     
  • 45-47 Wo Fung Street, Fanling [????- ]
     

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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.)

• Arthur Cawte FRANKLIN [????-1933], Chief Government Analyst, Registrar of the University of Hong Kong, lecturer in Chemistry
   
• E Stuart HARVERSON 海富生 [1908-1995], missionary
   
• Rolf JOHNSON [????-????], merchant
   
• David Allan Finlayson MATHERS [1917-????], captain with the 2/14 Punjab Regiment
   
• James SMITH [????-????], shipping clerk
   
• Norman STOCKTON [????-1943], journalist and war correspondent. Appears on the KCC's Roll of Honour.
   
• George Ernest WETTON [????-????], manager, H Skott and Co
   
• Lionel Mountstuart WHYTE [????-????], wine merchant
   

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