Nikki Veriga: This photo is of my grandparents – James (Newcastle on Tyne) and Elizabeth Thirlwell (nee Wilkinson) and their children. Grandad was a Master Mariner and captained the tug “Tai Koo” on her final voyage. [The Tai Koo struck a mine and sank in the Red Sea with the loss of 26 of the 63 people on board on 12th September […]
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York Lo: Chinese Type Foundries – Universal, Wing Shing, Kin Kwok, Tak Hing and Others The 1950s to the 1980s was the golden age of Chinese newspapers and periodicals in Hong Kong and abroad and at its peak in the 1970s there were over 70 Chinese newspapers in HK alone. During this time and before the rise of offset and […]
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Graham Wood has sent the following photographs of Hong Kong and especially of Hok Un Power Station shortly after the liberation of Hong Kong from Japanese occupation in 1945. During World War Two Graham’s father, Andrew Wood was attached to Tiger force and sent out to the Pacific with an expectation to create airfield facilities on Okinawa. He was diverted to […]
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Hugh Farmer: Thanks to Tymon Meller for notifying me of the following: A short report by James Hayes which appeared in the RASHKB Journal Vol 15, 1975 : Pottery Kilns – Wun Yiu – RASHKP Hugh Farmer writes. On 11 November 2013 I visited Sheung Wun Yiu village located to the south west of Tai Po Market. The village has several […]
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Stephen Davies: With the help of Ian Killick at the UK Hydrographic Office Archive, I think I have learned that the Fan Lau Lighthouse would seem to have been first installed in 1936. Ian did a quick search of a spread of the Admiralty List of Lights, Fog Signals and Visual Time Signals and the 1953 edition gave Fan Lau light as having […]
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York Lo: Fung Cheong Shun (豐昌順) – from Dyeing Factory to King of School Uniforms Left: Billboard for Fung Cheong Shun fabric using Caledon dye next to A Fong Studio in the 1930s; Right: Fung Cheong Shun ad in 1967 (HK Pun U District Association) Fung Cheong Shun, the oldest and largest maker of school uniforms in Hong Kong with […]
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HF: New information in red. Ray has contacted me on behalf of Charles ‘Chic’ Eather saying that the latter is more than happy for me to use material from his website. Charles is now into his 95th year and is not able to manipulate a computer as he once could. Ray helps Charles with his emails and his website. Thanks […]
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HF: Philip Poon left the following comment attached to our article, K. Y. Shang, the China Can Company and the Development of the Can Industry in Asia, linked below, “I have some historical cans that were made by China Can HK company. I can share these pictures with you.” Here they are. I have numbered each image so that anyone […]
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York Lo: Sun Hing Building (新興大廈) and its Developers Ad for Sun Hing Building in 1964 (WKYP, 1964-2-11) Designed by the famous architect Eric Cumine, the 29-story Sun Hing Building at 603-609A Nathan Road in Mongkok was the tallest building in Hong Kong when it opened in 1966. Its developer was Sun Hing Realty (新興實業), which was formed by two […]
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D.L. Wu (伍德鄰) (1905-1995) devoted his entire life to the shipping industry. After attending the Shanghai Baptist College and the University of the Philippines, he started his shipping career in Shanghai in 1928 where he worked for the China Merchants Steam Navigation Co. Ltd. Still in Shanghai, he joined the San Peh Steam Navigation Co. in 1937 and he was […]
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