Nick Cranfield, in Shanghai, has been researching the history of the SS Tien Loong. And discovered: The SS Invergoil was built by Harland and Wolff at Belfast in 1922 and launched on 21st September 1922. It was delivered to the British Mexican Petroleum Company on 9th November 1922. But subsequently sold to Moller & Co of Shanghai in 1936 and […]
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IDJ has sent the following newspaper article… HF: I have retyped the original article to aid clarity and searches. I would welcome any information about (or images of) Ye Olde Printerie. Thanks to SCT for proofreading the retyped version. Hong Kong Personalities MR. V.C.LABRUM This is the ninety-second of the exclusive series of sketches of leading Colony residents by Mr. […]
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Dear Readers, Hopefully when you read this short message, my wife and I will be in Hong Kong, where we lived for around thirty years before retiring to Syros Island Greece. We’ll be here for about a month, as we have a number of tasks to undertake. This website will be continue to post new and archive articles during this […]
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Graham Wood has kindly sent the following newspaper article. HF: I have retyped the article… The Wing, which comprised 90 per cent of “Shield” Force, was at sea bound for Okinawa and ultimately the Japanese mainland, with airfield construction as its primary objective on the invasion route to Tokyo, when news was suddenly received of the Japanese surrender. At the […]
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HF: Pokfulam village, sometimes though wrongly, described as Hong Kong Island’s last village, had very close links to the nearby Dairy Farm. The SCMP of 28th September 2012 published an article about the 150-year-old village in which it is described as “a heritage treasure trove”. The SCMP, “The village grew and became a hub for what was then a rural […]
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Dear Readers, today my wife and I will, hopefully, be leaving Syros Island, Greece, to return to Hong Kong where we lived for around 30 years. We’ll be there for about a month, as we have a number of tasks to undertake. This website will continue to post new and archive articles during this period and I will endeavour to […]
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HF: Joseph Tse, who has contributed a great deal of articles about trams in Hong Kong on this website see our articles below, has written to say, I completed another HK tram book in Chinese, as a paper form tram museum. i send you the Pre-launch media coverage, the book cover and brief contents in English. The book is available […]
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IDJ has kindly sent the following newspaper article. HF: I have retyped the original article to aid clarity and website searches. Thanks to SCT for proofreading the retyped version of the original article. A HAPPY EXAMPLE OF ANGLO CHINESE CO-OPERATION In this Empire Supplement, designed primarily to bring to the notice of British people in Hong Kong the campaign to […]
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HF: Lise Maillard-Salin, Attachée at the Consulate Général of France in Hong Kong and Macau, has sent the following email: I noticed you published an article on the Messageries Maritimes last August based on the work of the French Historian François Drémeaux [The article is linked below] I would like to inform you that he will be giving a conference […]
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HF: Our recent article Godown – meaning and origin of the term, linked below, had me tracking down photographs of godowns in Hong Kong, which I show below. If anyone comes across the many I have probably missed please send them in and I will add them to the collection. The most recent image and info is of Dah Keung […]
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