They don’t get more difficult than this one! And in two parts. Click on the Christmas tree. Can you identify the locations and their industries from this 1950s map. And suggest why the rest of the colony was omitted from such delightful detail? Tai O Salt? Ma On Shan Iron Mine? Tsuen Wan ship breaking? Junk Bay steel? Click on […]
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Many thanks to Lawrence Tsui for sending his father’s, Paul Tsui’s unpublished Memoirs – My Life and My Encounters see http://www.galaxylink.com.hk/~john/paul/paul.html Paul Tsui Ka Cheung was born in Sai Ying Pun, Hong Kong on Nov 5 1916. He had a very full life, including some dramatic times during WW2. He started work in Hong Kong as a Cadet Officer Class 2, on […]
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Hugh Farmer writes, The SCMP of 10 Dec 2013, has an article “Museum plans an old school revival” which mentions a plan by the Federation of Hong Kong Industries and the Hong Kong Toys Council to set up a permanent museum dedicated to toys produced here. Sounds like an excellent idea given the importance of the toy industry in Hong Kong […]
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